_D.Litt._, _D.Sc._, _D.C.L._ Candidates who have taken the Bachelor’s degree in Letters or Science may proceed to the Doctorate in the twenty-seventh Term from the date of their matriculation. Bachelors of Civil Law cannot take the degree of D.C.L. until the expiration of five years from the time of their admission to the B.C.L. In any case, all candidates for the Doctor’s degree in Letters, Science, or Civil Law are required to submit a dissertation which has contributed to the advancement of knowledge in their particular field. [Sidenote: Advanced standing.] The University grants advanced standing, Junior or Senior, to students from Colonial and Foreign Universities upon certain conditions which are prescribed by Decree in respect of the individual Universities.[53] Students from these Universities or Colleges enjoy the following privileges:— [Sidenote: Junior standing.] Any Undergraduate who has pursued a course of study extending over at least two years at some recognized University or College, and who becomes a candidate for Honours at Oxford, is allowed to take his degree of Bachelor of Arts at the end of his _eighth_, instead of the _twelfth_, Term of residence. As far as the Rhodes Scholars are concerned, Junior standing merely reduces the necessary residence requirement from three to two years, and exempts from no University examinations except Responsions (including the ‘Additional Subject’).[54] [Sidenote: Senior standing.] Three years of study, with final Honours, at some recognized University or College, is demanded as the necessary qualification for Senior standing. This exempts from Responsions _and_ the _Intermediate Examination_ (including the Holy Scripture Examination),[55] and reduces the necessary residence requirement for the B. A. in some one of the Honour Schools to two years. A Rhodes Scholar, therefore, who has been granted Senior standing is required to take _only_ some Final Honour Examination, and may take his degree at the end of his second year. Students from other than Affiliated or Privileged Universities may make application for advanced standing. Each case will be considered on its own individual merits, on the evidence of scholarship furnished by the applicant as well as on the general standing of the College or University from which he comes. If his claims are approved, he is admitted to the same privileges as students from the Affiliated or Privileged Universities. All such applications should be made through the proper authorities of the applicant’s Oxford College, and as early as possible.[56] [Sidenote: Certain Colonial students exempted from the qualifying Examination.] [Sidenote: The ‘Rhodes examination’ exempts from Responsions.] [Sidenote: Oxford System.]