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DEGREES WITH HONORS.

The courses required for the cultural B.A. and B.S. degrees are adapted
to the powers of the average student, and any graduate of an accredited
school, who has, either by certificate or examination satisfied the requirements
for admission to the College, if he is reasonably industrious and regular
in his studies, should obtain one of these degrees without difficulty in four
sessions' work. In every body of students, however, there is a varying proportion
of men and women who possess greater ability and application than
the average, and whose ambition aims higher than a bare pass-mark on their
work. For the proper stimulation of such students toward the best that
they can do, and for due and authoritative recognition of unusual ability and
high achievement in studies, the Academic Faculty has instituted the following
system of Special Honors.

Intermediate Honors.

A certificate of Intermediate Honors is conferred by the Academic Faculty
on the student who, during his first two regular sessions in the College
of this University, has passed on not less than 30 session-hours, including all
required A courses, without failure or re-examination on any course, and
with an average grade on all courses of 85 per cent. or more.

The holder of a Certificate of Intermediate Honors, so long as he has no
grade below 75 per cent. on the work of any term in any course, is not subject
to any of the rules limiting the issuance of leaves of absence from the
University, nor does absence from any class entail on such student any penalty
affecting class-standing imposed for absence alone.

The Certificates of Intermediate Honors are publicly conferred at the
Annual Convocation of the University following the session in which the honors
have been attained. The names of the holders of these certificates are
published under a separate heading in the annual catalogue of the University.

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.