III.—THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA.
To merit this, the highest academical honor of the Institution,
the student must have already become a graduate in all the
literary and scientific schools in the University. He must, moreover,
give proof of an accurate and comprehensive acquaintance
with his entire course of studies, by an examination on all these
subjects, in the presence of the Faculty, at the close of his
academical career; and, lastly, he must prepare and submit to
the Faculty an essay exhibiting a due degree of literary ability;
and this he is required to read on the Public Day.
