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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.

Admission to the Department.—For admission to the Department of
Graduate Studies a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of collegiate
rank is required, for men and women alike. In order to become a candidate
for a degree, the student must be advanced to candidacy by the Committee
on Rules and Courses upon formal application, as set forth below.

Advancement to Candidacy for a Degree.—Any graduate student who
wishes to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Dean of the Deparment
his application on a blank form to be secured from the Registrar.
This application must include a proposed program of work arranged in accordance
with the requirements for the several degrees as stated below, and must be
accompanied, in case the applicant does not hold an academic degree from this
University, by an official transcript of the applicant's academic record made
out by the Registrar of the institution from which the baccalaureate degree was
received, and by a catalogue of that institution, marked to show the courses of
study pursued. The application will be submitted by the Dean to the Committee
on Rules and Courses, who will consider it in conference with the professors
concerned. The Committee will have the right to require that the applicant
add to his program any courses, undergraduate or graduate, considered necessary
to supply his deficiencies, or to enable him to pursue with profit the courses
he has selected. When the program has been finally approved, the Dean will
report to the applicant his advancement to candidacy for a degree.

It should be distinctly understood that graduate degrees are not conferred
merely upon the basis of the number of courses passed, or of the length of
time spent in resident or non-resident work, but upon the basis of the quality
and scope of the candidate's knowledge, and his power of investigation in his
chosen field of study. Candidates whose training and attainments are inferior
cannot expect to secure a degree in the normal length of time estimated below
for the respective degrees.