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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 Department his application on a blank form to be secured
from the Dean's Secretary. 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.