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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 courses which a candidate has offered as part of the work credited
for baccalaureate degree (General Catalogue, pp. 143-144) 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 government, or philosophy, education, and biology.

The degree of Master of Science is conferred upon a holder of the cultural
degree of Bachelor of Science (general catalogue, p. 144), 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 (General Catalogue, p. 144), 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 (see page 7),
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.

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 15 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.