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tion in establishing the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, 

 in this department. Through the influence and exertions 

 of Professor Norton, a petition was presented to the 

 corporation for the establishment of such a degree, at 

 their meeting in July, 1851. A committee, consisting of 

 President "Woolsey, Dr. Day, Professor Kingsley, and 

 Professor Norton, was appointed to confer upon this 

 subject, and to report at the next annual meeting. The 

 following is the report : 



The committee appointed last year to prepare rules for giving degrees 

 in this department, if they should deem the giving of such degrees 

 expedient, report the following rules: 



1. Students in this department of the age of twenty one years, who 

 have resided at the college two years, and have pursued their studies 

 for nine months in each year, may receive on examination the degree 

 of Bachelor of Philosophy. 



2. The examination shall embrace, at least, three branches of study, 

 and a certificate of the examiners must be produced to the effect, that 

 the examination in each branch has been satisfactory. 



3. This examination in the case of students in the physical sciences, 

 shall embrace two departments of physical or mathematical science, and 

 either the French or German language. 



The fee for graduation shall be the same as for Bachelors of Arts, or 

 Bachelors of Laws, whereupon, voted to adopt the foregoing as rules, 

 under which degrees in this department shall be given. 



In the consideration of this subject, the committee had 

 the advantage, it is proper to remark, of the experience 

 of Harvard and Brown, where degrees of this kind had 

 already been established. The degrees were conferred 



