Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... THE CONFERRING OF THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE UPON NON-GRADUATES By Prof. Walter L. Jennings The question of giving degrees to non-graduates who for various reasons have failed to obtain them while resident students is one that faculties of colleges and technical schools are frequently called upon to decide. Every year students leave college because of illness, financial embarrassment, lack of interest, defective scholarship and sometimes misconduct. Some of them enter other institutions or subsequently return to their own college and, after fulfilling all requirements, receive their degrees. Others enter business or professions in which they become so occupied that they find it impossible to take the time necessary for the completion of their collegiate residence and training. Such men often attain distinction in their professions or prominence in other ways and apply for degrees, being urged thereto by some admiring former classmate, or at the solicitation of some member of the faculty, who is enthusiastically appreciative of their continued interest, financial or otherwise, in the college. It is not easy to understand why one who has attained distinction in his profession should seek an undergraduate degree, when such degree signifies nothing beyond the fact that the possessor, prior to his entering his profession, has completed a prescribed course of study in preparation therefor. f' The applying for and the granting of a degree on any other basis than its being earned puts an abnormal importance on the degree itself and stamps the recipient with a misleading trade-mark. Chairman of the W. P. I. Faculty Committee which investigated this matter. Investigation shows a wide variation in this practice among prominent universities, colleges and technical school...
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