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worked with the professors of the several departments, giving their 
whole time to any specialty which they might select. This plan 
admirably- suited as it was to the needs of the trained student 
who had fitted himself in other schools for the work of a special 
department, was not adapted to the needs of those to whom this 
teaching was to fill the whole office of higher education. With the 
introduction of the doctor’s degree into the plan of the school, 
it became necessary to make a change which has long been desir- 
able by fixing a definite scheme of general scientific instruction in 
Place of the imperfect system which had hitherto prevailed. A 
three years’ course has been arranged which secures to the student 
abroad view over the whole field of science and the advantage 
‘which comes from a knowledge of the methods of research in use 
in its several branches. It gives to those persons who may not 
have the desire or the means to go through a regular college 
course, a systematic training which will occupy their full time for 
three years and give the best results of culture which can be at- 
ined in any scientific course. Students who can pass the re- 
quired examinations are admitted to the degree of bachelor of 
Science. Graduates of colleges where science is taught in an 
effective way should be able to enter this course in advanced 
standing. Students of the college, graduating with honors in the 
departments of natural history, should be able to obtain the 
degree in this course in a year of study. The student is trained 
in the important art of expressing himself clearly on the matters 
. 
Stons 
ie study done, the preparation for the degree must be in some ` 
T lal department when the student will generally become the 
iie kok pacity as an investigator or teacher in the science which 
nt has made his specialt : 
The res p y 
Ources of the University for teaching science are, it is- 
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