But to-day, especially in the South, many a little institution that opens its doors and calls itself a college or a university, is beginning to confer degrees, and make doctors of divinity of persons who are unworthy of degrees.
Washington warns against the trend of institutions conferring degrees without merit, particularly in the South.
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