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INFORMATION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS 153
as to the proportion of the full tuition to be paid for such work shall
be made by the Dean to the Executive Council.
A student whose undergraduate work has been insufficient in
amount or too narrowly. specialized, or whose preparation in his
special field is inadequate, must count upon spending increased time
in work for the degree.
3. Admission to Candidacy: Any student admitted to work for
the doctor's degree who has been in residence one term or more, who
has satisfied the several departments concerned by written or oral
examination or otherwise that he has a comprehensive grasp of his
major and minor subjects as well as of subjects fundamental to them,
who has satisfied the department of modern languages that he can
read scientific German and French with reasonable facility, who has
shown ability in carrying on research and whose research subject
has been approved by the Chairman of the Division concerned, and
whose program of study has been approved by both his major and
minor departments may, on recommendation of the Chairman of
the Division in which he is working, be admitted by the Committee
on Graduate Study to candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Members of the permanent Institute staff of rank higher
than that of Assistant Professor are not admitted to candidacy for
a higher degree. For special departmental regulations concerning
admission to candidacy, see Section VI.
A regular form, to be obtained from the Dean of the Graduate
School, is provided for making application for admission to candidacy.
Such admission to candidacy must be obtained before the close of
the first term of the year in which the degree is to be conferred, and
must be followed by two terms of further residence before the degree
is conferred. The student himself ;s responsible for seeing that admission
;s secured at the proper time.
4. Examinations: The French and German examinations, prerequisite
to admission to candidacy for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, will be given in September on the afternoon of the date