THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS.

I. Under rule 5 of the standing rules of the corporation and overseers (see catalogue, p. 223) the academic council will approve studies pursued in the professional and scientific schools as constituents of the one year's course of liberal study to be pursued by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts; but no study in a professional school or the scientific school will be approved as part of such one year's course, unless the council is satisfied that the candidate offering it has no intention or expectation of counting the same study towards the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science, or Civil Engineer.

II. Under the same standing rule, the council will also recommend for the degree of Master of Arts students, otherwise properly qualified, who are recommended by the appropriate faculty for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science, or Civil Engineer, after the longest course of study and residence provided for such degree, and upon examinations passed with high credit. Members of the schools of divinity, law, medicine and science, who are already Bachelors of Arts of Harvard University, and who wish to obtain the Master's degree simultaneously with their professional degree, should present their applications to the faculty of the school with which they are connected on or before the 1st of June in the year of their graduation.

Members of those schools who are Bachelors of Arts of other institutions, and wish to obtain the Master's degree, must first become eligible for that degree by vote of the college faculty, in accordance with rule 1 of the standing rules of the corporation and overseers (see catalogue, p. 222).

Members of the schools who purpose to be candidates for the Master's degree at the end of the professional course are not required to make application to the academic council or to register with the secretary of the academic council.