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GRADUA TE DEPARTMENT.
The above date is the limit for the acceptance of applications and
for the selection of majors and minors, in the case of applicants who
desire to receive credit for attendance during the whole of the aca
demic year then entered upon.
The work of candidates for advanced degrees in the general courses
must be devoted to those subjects (one major and one or two minors),
which may be comprised within the limits of one department of in
struction, or may extend to two or three ; with the provision, however,
that, except in case of special permission to the contrary granted by
the University Faculty, the subjects shall be so related to one another
as to a imply definite aim on the part of the student. The subject of
the thesis required must be filed with the with Registrar, the written
approval of the special committee in charge of the work of the candi
date, and be announced to the University Faculty as early as Decem
ber i of the year in which the degree is expected to be given, and the
paper in its completed form must be presented as early as May i.
Theses accepted are to be delivered to the Registrar on or before the
Friday preceding Commencement.
The degree of Master is intended to represent a year of faithful
work of an advanced character performed by a student who has pre
viously taken a degree fully equivalent to that which is given in this
University
at the completion of four years of undergraduate work.
The degree of Doctor is intended to represent not a specified amount
of work, a covering specified time, but long study and high attainment
in a special field, proved, in the first place, by the presentation of a
thesis which displays the power of independent investigation, and in
the second place, by passing corresponding examinations upon the
ground covered by the three subjects chosen at the of beginning the
candidacy and approved by the University Faculty.
Successful candidates for the degree of Master must deposit one
copy of the thesis in the University Library.
Successful candidates for the degree of Doctor must print their
theses and deposit fifty copies in the University Library. In the title
page of each of these copies shall appear the statement that the thesis
was presented to the University Faculty of Cornell University for the
degree in question. Unless the printed copies be previously deposited
in the University Library, a type-written copy of the thesis must be
delivered to the Registrar on or before the Friday preceding the Com
mencement at which the degree is conferred. This type-written copy
is to become the permanent property of the University.
A written text-book, presumably and published without reference to
the degree for which it was presented, will not be accepted in lieu of
a thesis.