TO ALTER ENGLISH PH.D. REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE LATIN

Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English will in the future be required to pass reading examinations in Latin as well as in the usual French and German examinations according to an announcement of the English department yesterday. The plan will go into effect with those students who hope to receive their degrees in June 1936.

Candidates for the Master's degree will have the choice of passing two of the three examinations instead of only French or German as the present requirements demand. They will be allowed to take all three in anticipation of their Doctor's degree if they wish to do so.

The present written examinations are an hour long but candidates will be allowed an hour and a half for the new Latin test. It will consist of passages from Virgil or Ovid, Cicero or Ceasar, and two passages, of which the candidate must translate one, from Mediaeval and Renaissance poetry and prose.

In making these changes in the Master's degree the English department is following the lead of eight other departments who have followed the recommendation of George H. Chase '96 dean of the Graduate School, to make the requirements more strict and so raising its prestige.