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DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES.

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pleted satisfactorily the required studies, and sustained the examination therein, conferring such literary and scientific degrees as are usually conferred by universities for similar or equivalent courses of studies, or such as the Trustees may deem appropriate." Approved May 11, 1877. In accordance with the law, the following system of degrees has been adopted by the University.

1. All studies will remain, as heretofore, free. Each student may choose and pursue such studies as he may desire, subject only to such conditions as to preparation, times of study and number of studies, as may be necessary to secure efficiency in classes and economy in teaching. 2. But students who wish to be candidates for any degree must complete fully the course of studies prescribed for such degree, and must present an accepted thesis. 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 certificates provided by law, with statements of work done and credits attained. Credits from other institutions may not be entered upon such certificates. The form of graduation with a ''full certificate" will be discontinued after the commencement of 1891. 4. I t is designed t h a t the requirements for all the bachelor's 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 College of Engineering, Agriculture, or Natural 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 of the School of English and Modern Languages. 7. The Degree of Bachelor of Arts, B. A., will be given to those who complete the course in the School of Ancient Languages. 8. The Master's Degrees, M. S., M. L., and M. A., and the equivalent degrees of C. E., M. E., etc., will be given to those only who have pursued a year of prescribed post-graduate studies, and passed examinations thereon, or after a term of three years' successful practice. I n either case an accepted thesis will be required.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO STUDENTS.

Young men or women desiring a liberal education, and living at a distance from a college or university, are often puzzled to understand precisely what they will be required to know and to do in order to gain admission. To such, these words are addressed :

1. Notice t h a t a college or university (which is properly a collection of colleges) is designed for the higher education only, and not for the study of common branches. ISTone of the common branches, such as arithmetic, geography, English Grammar, reading and spelling, are taught in this University. These all must be finished before you come. 2. I n order to pursue profitably the true college studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing from the different colleges of the University. (See pages 234 and 235.)