Excerpt from Of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Va: To the Remonstrance on Recent Changes in the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts
The Master of Arts degree has for sixty years been the distinctive feature of this institution, and the University guarantees the scholarship of all who bear it; as long as it is given, the fame of the University must largely depend on the acquirements of its Masters. A host of men have left these walls bearing this honorable title who justly regard it as the outward indication of high attainments in the fields of literature and science, and therefore bear it with pride. Most of these have justified the high hopes entertained of them by their Alma Mater - they have alike reflected credit on themselves and on her.
The great renown in which our M. A. is held, both at home and abroad, rests upon two pillars: the immense field over which it extends and the high standard of attainment necessary for success in each department of knowledge. Take away either of these supports, and the other alone is not sufficient to hold us up; the first bears the fame of our degree for a liberal education, the last carries our reputation for high attainment in all the departments of such an education. Without the one, the M. A. becomes merely a special degree, showing perhaps high development on one or two lines, but is no longer the synonym for a well rounded and polished gentleman - without the other, our degree men are dilettantes, possessed of that most baneful of all acquirements - a little learning.
The field now covered by this degree is a large one, comprising graduation at a high standard in Latin, Mathematics, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, French, German, and Greek.
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