Excerpt from Jackson's LL. D: A Tempest in a Tea-PotAs we run over the list of the Presidents of the United States, we see that nine of them have received the degree of LL.D. From Harvard College.1 Four of them Monroe, J ack son, Grant, and Hayes - were in otfice at the time when the degree was conferred. When Washington visited Cambridge in 1789, he had already been honored by the college with a degree. So also at that date had-john Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It was not until Monroe visited Cambridge in 1817 that the authorities of the college were brought face to face with the question of how a President upon whom a degree had not already been bestowed should be honored by the college. The precedent then established of conferring a degree as a part of the ceremony of reception has apparently been accepted as the basis for a custom. If Cleveland did not receive a degree in 1886, it was because he was unwilling to do so. The name of mckinley does not appear in the honorary roll of the Harvard Quinquennial, because his untimely death at Buffalo prevented the promised Visit to Massachusetts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.