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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

graduates of this University, for three years in absentia/ and to pass satisfactory examinations upon all the studies of the approved course. Each candidate for a second degree must present an acceptable thesis in the line of his major subject of study. The subject of this thesis must be announced to the dean of the general faculty not later than the first Monday in November of the academic year in which the course is to be completed. The completed thesis, upon regulation paper, must be presented, with the certified approval of the professor in charge, to the council • of administration not later than June 1st. The ^period of required study begins from the date of registration in the graduate school.

DOCTOR'S DEGREE

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy may be conferred upon any member of the graduate school of not less than three years' standing who shall have reached high attainments in scholarship, including a sufficient knowledge of the Latin, French, and German languages to serve the purposes of research in his principal specialty, who shall have shown marked ability in some line of literary or scientific investigation, and shall have presented a thesis giving clear indications of such scholarship and of such power of research. At least the first two, or the last one, of the three years of study must be in residence at the University, and the entire course of study must be in accordance with the regulations of the graduate school. The time and study required for a master's degree may be included in the three years required, but approval of a course of study for a doctor's degree must be upon the condition that the candidate is prepared through his baccalaureate work, or otherwise, to enter at once upon advanced studies in the line of his major subject, and that work on this major subject be continued through the three years. The final examination of a candidate for the doctor's degree is conducted by a committee consisting of the head of the department under which the major subject has been pursued, as chairman, and of not less than two additional members of the general faculty of the University, appointed for the