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And he said that the bachelor's degree was conferred four times a year, and that on each occasion sixty, or at least fifty, degrees were given. At that time the university was nourishing; if any one passed in half the subjects of a year's course he received the bachelor's degree, and if he passed in half the subjects for three years, a master's degree; the result was 78 SOURCE-BOOK OF THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE. that their parents were satisfied and willing to spend their money, for they saw that t...heir sons were attaining to honors. But now students wished to hear Virgil and Pliny and other new-fangled authors, and when they have listened for five years, even then they are not graduated; and when they go back home their par- ents ask: "What are you?" and they reply that they are nothing, but that they have studied poetry. But their parents do not know what that is; and when they see that they are not gram- marians, they are dissatisfied with the university and regret hav- ing spent their money.
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