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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

paper must be presented, with the certified approval of the professor in charge, to the Council of Administration not later than June ist.

The period of required study begins from the date of registration in the Graduate School.

DOCTOR'S DEGREE

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Doctor of Science, 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 purpose by the Council of Administration. This examination covers the subjects of the course approved for the degree, but is specially searching upon that on which the major work has been done. This examina-