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REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES.

Graduate in a School.

Any student who successfully completes all the courses offered in any
academic School is entitled to a diploma of graduation in that School.

The Master's Degrees.

A candidate who has received a baccalaureate degree from this university,
or who has fulfilled the conditions above specified under Entrance
Requirements, is entitled to a Master's degree upon his successful completion
of four graduate courses, chosen in accordance with the restrictions
detailed below.

No C course may be counted for a Master's degree unless preceded by
a B course or courses in the same subject aggregating at least six session-hours;
or, in case only one three-session-hour course is offered in that
subject, by one B course in that subject and a second B course in the same
Group, chosen with the approval of the professor in charge of the C course
in question.

No C course which a candidate has offered as part of the work credited
for a baccalaureate degree may be counted for a Master's degree.

A candidate must take at least two graduate courses during the last
year of his work for a Master's degree, and no candidate may receive this
degree until at least one year after he has received his baccalaureate
degree, except by special consent of the Academic Faculty.

The degree of Master of Arts is conferred upon a Bachelor of Arts
who has successfully completed four graduate courses, chosen with the
approval of the Academic Faculty. These four courses must be in at least
three distinct subjects, and in three different academic Schools, except by
special order of the Academic Faculty. Three of the subjects must be
cognate, which means that they must be selected from kindred groups of
subjects, such as, for example, languages and literature, or mathematics
and natural science, or history, economics, and philosophy, or philosophy,
education, and biology.

The degree of Master of Science is conferred upon a holder of the
cultural degree of Bachelor of Science, who has successfully completed
four graduate courses chosen in accordance with the regulations prescribed
for the Master of Arts above.

The degree of Master of Science in a Special Subject, the name of
which is inscribed on the diploma, is conferred upon a holder of the vocational
degree of Bachelor of Science in a Special Subject, who has successfully
completed four graduate courses selected from among those offered
in his special subject, or from among other courses which meet with the
approval of the professor or professors in charge of his special subject.

Doctor of Philosophy.

A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must hold the
degree of Bachelor of Arts or the cultural degree of Bachelor of Science of
this university, or, if he be a graduate of some other institution, he must
have fulfilled the conditions above specified under Entrance Requirements.
The requirements for the degree are as follows:

(1) A reading knowledge of French and German, attested by the successful
completion of the B courses in these languages, or else by examinations
held at the beginning of the first year of the candidate's work for
the doctorate, by committees consisting of the professor in charge of the
candidate's major subject and the professors of French and German, respectively.
If the candidate fails on one or both of these examinations, he will
be required to enter the appropriate course in one or both of these languages.
No student will be regarded as a regular candidate for the doctorate
until he has fulfilled this requirement.

(2) The successful completion of at least three years of graduate
work in three subjects, to be known, respectively, as the candidate's major,
primary minor and secondary minor. These subjects must be cognate, and
must be chosen, with the approval of the Committee on Rules and Courses,
from at least three academic Schools. The major must be pursued for at
least three years, the primary minor for at least two years, and the
secondary minor for at least one year.

No C course may be counted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
unless preceded by a B course or courses in the same subject aggregating
at least six session-hours; or, in case only one three-session-hour course
is offered in that subject, by one B course in that subject and a second
B course in the same Group, chosen with the approval of the professor in
charge of the C course in question.

Any student taking a D course in any subject may be required by
the professor, with the approval of the Academic Faculty, to attend such
lectures or courses in any of the academic Schools as the professor may
deem necessary.

Graduate work done in other universities may be accepted in lieu
of resident work, provided sufficient evidence is furnished by examination,
written or oral, or both, that such work has been of a grade similar to
that required here, and has been satisfactorily performed, and provided
also that the candidate takes in this university at least one graduate
course in his primary minor, and does at least one year's resident work
in his major subject.

A candidate who is a professor in a chartered college or university,
of the subject selected by him as major, may be allowed by the Academic
Faculty to spend only two years in resident work. In all cases the work
of the last year of candidacy shall be done in residence, unless the Academic
Faculty shall for special reasons direct otherwise.

(3) A dissertation exhibiting independent research in some branch
of the candidate's major subject. The dissertation must be submitted to
the Academic Faculty not later than April fifteenth of the year in which
the candidate applies for the degree. Moreover, the copy presented for the
Faculty's approval shall be written (typewritten, if feasible) on paper
of prescribed quality and size, shall be bound, and shall have certain prescribed
phrases on the cover and title page. If the dissertation is
accepted by the Faculty as satisfactory, the copy submitted shall immediately
become the property of the University. Before the degree is conferred
the dissertation must be printed at the candidate's expense, and one
hundred copies deposited in the library of the University; or, if this be
impracticable on account of lack of time, the candidate must deposit with
the Bursar a sum of money sufficient to have a hundred copies of the
dissertation printed.