50 MEN SEEK PH.D. DEGREES

Fifty men in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have applied for Ph.D. degrees at midyears, and sixty-four seek A.M. degrees, Lawrence S. Mayo '10, Associate Dean, announced yesterday.

Of this number, however, there will probably be forty-three who will actually become Doctors of Philosophy, and fifty will be Masters of Art, since certain applicants have not fulfilled their language requirements, a reading knowledge of French and German.

In 1941, there were only twenty-four doctorate aspirants, and Dean Mayo explained the large increase by the leniency of many draft boards, who allowed men to complete the last six months of their intensive five-year program, rather than induct them. A.M. degrees were awarded to sixty-four men last year, a figure exactly the same as the number of applicants this year.

Forecasting a trend, Dean Mayo voiced the belief that Ph.D.'s would probably maintain their present level this spring but would almost certainly decrease in numbers next year.