In every year about 1400 undergraduates are admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the University of Cambridge. What becomes of them? The majority leave Cambridge; a smaller number remain in residence as bachelors and continue their studies. This may be done with a variety of objects. The man who has been placed in the First Class of a Tripos may be looking towards an academic career. For such a man his college is generally glad to extend the period of the tenure of his scholarship, and he may elect to read for another Tripos; or he may be a candidate for one of the many scholarships or prizes offered by the university and designed to enable a student to undertake a year's research in some special branch of his subject; or he may officially become a “Research Student”, that is, he may, with the approval of the Degree Committee of a Faculty and of the Board of Research Studies, become a candidate for a “research” degree to be obtained by means of a dissertation on a subject proposed by him and approved by the board. Such a candidate is placed under a supervisor in the university who directs his work; he may apply for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) for which two or three years’ work is required; for the degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Master of Letters (M.Litt.) only one or two years’ work is necessary.