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REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

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sary hours of credit, and he must present an acceptable thesis. The thesis required for graduation' must be on a topic connected with the student's major study. It must present the results of investigation made under the immediate supervision of the instructor during the last year of the student's course. This work of investigation shall be the required work in the major subject, in whole or in part, during that year, and shall receive credit like any other study. Separate credit will not be given for the thesis. No credit will be allowed in any subject except according to the enumeration given, and the same work shall not be credited both as major and as minor work. The groups are as follows: The Classical Group, including Greek and Latin as the major subjects. One of these languages must be taken for thirty, the other for twenty, hours. The English Group, including the Scandinavian languages. Students in this group must take two years of French or German before the beginning of the junior year. Those electing the course in language must have at least two years of German. The German and Romanic Language Group. Either German or French may be taken as a major, but as a condition of graduation twenty hours of credit in the other must be secured. Besides the required work in English, all students must elect additional English sufficient to make a total of at least ten hours. Students of marked ability, taking French as a major, will be advised to take the courses offered in Spanish or Italian. The Latin and Modern Language Group, including Latin as a major, and German and French as minors. Ten hours in one minor are required. The Philosophical Group, including pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, and mathematics as major subjects. In this group the second year of the student's work is devoted to studies specifically preparatory to the principal subject, which is itself taken up at the beginning of the third year.