Meaning of B.A. | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (collegiate degree).
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2. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (person with the degree).
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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Examples

“In the 1918 list five B.A.’s were given post⟳ obitum, honoris causa and 35 were granted to men unable to be present⟳ because of absence in the Service.”

“And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage⟳ and down the aisle.”

“That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.”

“On account of the shortness of the Lent Term, permission was granted in 1684 (Dec. 16), to make⟳ the work⟳ lighter by the passing of two graces, allowing inceptors in arts to make⟳ their disputations with an M.A. any day in term-time in the Logic, Philosophy, or Law schools, from 7 to 9, or 9 to 11 a. m., and 1 to 3, or 3 to 5 p. m., in the presence of the Proctor (or a regent his deputy) and at least six B.A.’s, and to hold⟳ disputations or declamations of inceptors and questionists, even out of term, at the Proctors’ pleasure, provided that the questions were duly posted on the doors and a Moderator present⟳, as well as twelve Sophs at the Sophs’ disputations, and six B.A.’s at the Bachelors’ declamations.”

“I should be sorry for the B.A.’s, because I think⟳ they have⟳ as good stuff in them as the others, but their want⟳ of education has unfitted them for work⟳ requiring “auza.””

“B.A.’s should undergo⟳ 2 years’ course at college”

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