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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. DOCTOR'S DEGREE.

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Science may be conferred upon graduates of this or of any other university or college approved by the committee of administration, after three years of successful graduate study, of which at least the last year or the first two years shall be in residence at this University. These degrees will not, however, be conferred upon the basis alone of the completion of prescribed study for the length of time indicated. Besides this, special attainments must be satisfactorily shown in the power for independent research and of original thought, and the thesis must be a contribution to knowledge. At least one-half of the prescribed work shall be devoted to the subject chosen as a major, and this work, together with that upon two minor subjects, shall be taken with the approval of the committee of administration, and shall be pursued under the supervision of the heads of the departments to which the subjects severally belong. The examinations shall be conducted as the Faculty of the University direct. At least two months before the close of the collegiate year the candidate shall submit to the Faculty through the professor in charge of his major work a fair copy of his thesis. If the degree is conferred, the recipient thereof shall have his thesis printed and deposit at least fifty copies of it in the office of the Regent of the University.

A SECOND BACHELOR'S DEGREE.

Graduates of this University and of other colleges and universities of equivalent standard may obtain a second bachelor's degree by completing all the subjects regarded as special or technical in the second course and gaining at least nine full term extra credits in addition to those counted for the first degree. A thesis is required, as for first degrees of this rank. Candidates for a second bachelor's degree are registered as resident graduates, but are not enrolled as members of the graduate school. The amount of instruction in the special subjects required in each of the engineering courses is now so large that little else can be undertaken within the limits of four years. But as higher attainments are reached the more apparent becomes the inter-relations and mutual dependencies between subjects of different courses, and therefore the more desirable is it that a student of any one course should have the chance to gain acquaintance with at least the more closely related branches of an allied course. The above arrangement for a second bachelor's degree, is especially applicable in such cases.