Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 170]

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2. B u t students who wish to be candidates for any degree must complete fully the course of studies prescribed for such degree. 3. Students not candidates for any degree will be enrolled as special students, and will receive at the close of their attendance, if not less than a year, the certificate provided by law, with statements of work done and of credits attained. 4. It is designed that the requirements for all the bachelors' degrees shall be, as nearly as possible, equal in amount and value. 5. The degree of bachelor of science, B. S., will be given to those who complete either of the courses of studies in the colleges of engineering, agriculture, or natural science, or in domestic science. The name of the school will be inserted after the degree. 6. The degree of bachelor of letters, B. L., will be given to those who complete the course in the school of English and modern languages. 1. The degree of bachelor of arts, B. A., will be given to those who complete the course in the school of ancient languages. 8. T h e masters' degrees, M. S., M. L., and M. A., and the equivalent degrees of C. E., M. E., etc., will be only given to those who have pursued and passed examinations on a year of prescribed postgraduate studies, and presented an accepted thesis, or after a term of successful practice with a thesis.

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ADMISSION.

To prevent loss to those who are not prepared to enter the University, but might come, hoping to pass the examinations for admission, the following arrangement has been made: County Superintendents Certificates.—County superintendents of schools will be furnished with questions and instructions for the examinations of candidates in the four common branches, arithmetic, geography, English grammar and history of the United States; those who pass creditably will, when they present the superintendent's certificate to that effect, be admitted to the preliminary classes. Examining Schools.— The trustees have authorized the faculty to designate one or more high schools in each county of the state, of sufficiently high grade and good reputation, whose certificates of examination, in the branches required of candidates for the University, may be received, in lieu of the usual examination of the University. These must be graded, or high schools of good reputation, and of sufficiently extended course to prepare students for the University. T h e principal teachers of the schools selected for this class will be authorized to prepare questions and conduct examinations of any of their students desirous of entering the University, but the papers must be sent to the University for final decision.