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Final Honors.

Final Honors are conferred only on graduation, and the diploma of B.A.
or B.S. with Final Honors states that the graduate has obtained special honors,
and the subjects in which honors were won.

A student who wishes to obtain Final Honors must be accepted as a candidate
for honors two sessions before graduation.

Any holder of the Certificate of Intermediate Honors, or any student who
has credit for not less than 30 session-hours, including all required A courses,
passed in this college or elsewhere, and who satisfies the Special Committee on
Honors of his capacity for superior work, may become a candidate for Final
Honors.

The candidate for Final Honors, in addition to completing, without failure
in any course, the regular degree requirements not later than the end of his
second year of candidacy, will, before graduation, take a special comprehensive
examination, oral or written, for Final Honors in some one group of subjects,
selected by him at the beginning of his candidacy from the list of such groups
published by the Special Committee on Honors. Final Honors are conferred
on the basis of the standing on this examination alone, and not of the grades
obtained in any or all of the courses required for the baccalaureate degree.

Students who have credit for 30 session-hours and who are interested in
Final Honors, are urged to consult the temporary Chairman of the Committee
on Honors, Professor W. H. Faulkner, before registering.