Show U Prepares to Issue Doctors Degrees By Helen Chamberlin For the first time in the history of the plans for the issuance of the degree of doctor of philosophy in various departments were in the final stages of development this week as the Graduate headed by Orin released its proposals for the degree for the approval of President LeRoy E. Cowles and the university It is the opinion of the council that the university may now properly begin to accept applications of graduate students and enrollment m courses leading to the degree of doctor of philosophy departments possessing adequate facilities for advanced training and the report In the council stressed the necessity that such departments have a strong supporting undergraduate program and a developed and active of significant as shown by the past record of productivity by staff and Standards for the degree from the outset be placed and vigorously maintained at a high the quality and work of the student being the report stated that each individual applicant be considered separately by the Graduate the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy are as Application Each student contemplating working for the degree must make application to the Graduate If his proposed line of work is a supervisory committee of five members representing major and minor fields will aid the student in preparing a program of in turn to be approved by the The council will further determine the applicant's capacity and attainments through conference and This foundation the Graduate council will recommend that he be required to establish it through additional courses or supervised A minimum of three full years in approved work of graduate and often more will be The full year's work indicates that the student has devoted all his working time and energy to his the recommendation stated although a time adjustment will be made where the student has engaged simultaneously in other such as part-time High Attainment The report stressed that the doctor's degree primarily for high attainment in a special field of for demonstrated power in some subdivision of that and for an adequate understanding of related rather than upon the time element or the mere accumulation of The candidate for the before entering his final year of 1 must demonstrate to the modem language department that he can read literature of his field in French and of the graduate work shall be in a major the remainder de- voted to one or two exceptional cases all the work may be taken in one the report End of Second Year At the end of the second and not later than the beginning of the last year of the student must pass or both ral and preliminary ex- covering the entire 1 field of Only after he has passed these examinations and 1 the foreign language examinations will he be recommended to the Graduate council by his su-f. committee for for the Every candidate must further submit a thesis on the results of evidence of and ability in independent investigation and constituting a real contribution to as well as showing a mastery of literature of the subject and i. written in creditable literary Thesis Second Year The thesis may be started in uie second year and should occupy the greater part of the final it must be presented to we Graduate council for the benefit of the examining committee at two weeks before the fi- L final the graduate council finally fended in its will be no later than two weeks commencement and will be oral or oral and Primarily on the of the |