390 GRADUATE SCHOOL

ORAL EXAMINATION. Every candidate for the doctor’s degree is sub-
ject to an oral examination upon the thesis and the general field of the
major and minor studies, but the preliminary examination may be construed
as final in certain aspects of the major and minor subjects if the professors
in charge of the candidate’s work are satisfied with his preparation. Such
delimitation of the subjects to be offered in the final oral examination must
be made a matter of record with the Dean of the Graduate School.

The Dean of the Graduate School will appoint for each candidate an
examining committee, usually composed of five persons, with the Major
Professor as chairman, and will designate a time and place for the exam-
ination. The candidate’s completed thesis shall be presented to this com-
mittee, or in lieu thereof, the Major Professor shall state to the committee
its purpose and scope and shall certify to the committee that the work upon
the thesis is substantially completed. This examination shall be open to
all members of the Graduate Faculty.

VII. TuHeEsis. At any time after admission to candidacy, and at least
thirty days prior to the final examination, the candidate must submit to the
Dean of the Graduate School, for approval of its mechanical form and exe-
cution, a typewritten copy of his completed thesis. The Dean will furnish
an official title page for the thesis and appoint a committee of three consist-
ing of the Major Professor and two members of the Graduate Faculty, to
pass upon its substantial merit. Their report, if favorable, shall be en-
dorsed upon the official title page. When so endorsed, the thesis shall be
brought to the Graduate Office for recording and then filed in the University
Library. The thesis can be withdrawn from the Library only upon written
authorization of the Dean of the Graduate School. In case of divided opin-
ion among the examiners, the case shall be referred to the Graduate Com-
mittee with right of appeal to the Graduate Faculty.

ApstTraAcT. After the approval of the thesis, the candidate shall file
with the Dean of the Graduate School either an abstract of the thesis, or a
selected part thereof, certified by the Major Professor to be adequate for
publication in lieu of the complete thesis.

SECURITY FOR PUBLICATION. After filing such abstract or selected part
the candidate shall place with the University Bursar the sum of fifty dollars
as a guaranty of prompt publication of his thesis. The sum so placed shall
be held in trust by the Bursar for a period of not less than one year and
shall be refunded to the candidate if during such period he shall deliver to
the University Librarian the printed copies of his thesis as prescribed be-
low. At the expiration of the period thus described, the Dean of the Grad-
uate School may declare such fifty dollars to be forfeited to the fund for
the publication of thesis abstracts and it shall be transferred to that fund
by the Bursar.

The successful candidate is urged to put his thesis into print as
promptly as possible and to deposit one hundred copies thereof in the Uni-
versity Library. In the case of doctors’ theses published in (a) such schol-
arly periodicals or society or university publications as shall be approved
by the Dean of the Graduate School, or (b) in bound volumes issued and
sold by well-known publishing houses approved by the Dean, the candidate
may deposit in the University Library six copies of the thesis so published
in lieu of the one hundred copies above described. By approval of the
Major Professor and the Dean of the Graduate School, publication and
filing of an approved part of the thesis may be accepted in satisfaction of
this requirement.