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PH. D.

The graduate course is designed for those seeking the degree of Ph. D., and
also for such students as desire to increase the range of their experience as analysts
and to cultivate their powers of original investigation.

It is required of those who enter this course that they shall have previously
graduated both in this School and in General Chemistry, or that they shall have
previously made equivalent attainments elsewhere.

Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and due assistance
will be given in its prosecution.

While the work is adapted to the special aims or taste of each student, it will
in all cases comprise some practice in the more elaborate processes of analysis,
ultimate and proximate organic analysis, some study in analytical methods and
some original problems, also the reading and the summarizing of extracts from
current journals, and for all who are seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation
embodying the results of some original research.