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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as well. At present, the Institute has an enrollment of some 2,100 students, more than half of whom are in graduate studies; about 300 professorial faculty members, including five Nobel laureates and three Crafoord laureates; and about 60 research faculty members. Today Caltech will award 191 students the B.S. degree; 127 students the M.S. degree; one scholar the degree of Engineer; and 185 doctoral candidates the Ph.D. degree, for a total of 504 graduates—quite a leap from the one man and one woman who constituted the first collegiate graduating class of Throop Polytechnic Institute. 4
T H E M E A N I N G O F A C A D E M I C D R E S S TH E S E T R I B A L R I T E S have a very long history. They go back to the ceremony of initiation for new university teachers in mediaeval Europe. It was then customary for students, after an appropriate apprenticeship to learning and the presentation of a thesis as their masterpiece, to be admitted to the Guild of Masters of Arts and granted the license to teach. In the ancient University of Bologna this right was granted by authority of the Pope and in the name of the Holy Trinity. We do not this day claim such high authority. As in any other guild, whether craft or merchant, the master’s status was crucial. In theory at least, it separated the men from the boys, the competent from the incompetent. On the way to his master’s degree, a student might collect a bachelor’s degree in recognition of the fact that he was half-trained, or partially equipped. The doctor’s degree was somewhat different. Originally indistinguishable from the master’s, the doctor’s gradually emerged by a process of escalation into a super magisterial role—first of all in the higher faculties of theology, law, and medicine. It will come as no surprise that the lawyers had a particular and early yen for this special distinction. These graduations and distinctions are reflected in the quaint and colorful niceties of academic dress. Of particular interest is the cap or mortarboard. In the form of the biretta it was the peculiar sign of the master. Its use has now spread far beyond 5
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