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 * 1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford, section VI: “Of the Studies Preliminary to the Degree”, § 4: ‘Liberal Studies (Arts) and Special Studies (Science)’, page 262:
 * We assign, v.g., the first year and a half, or three semesters, to complete and carry further the general training begun at school, and then allow the student to transfer himself to the professional study of some one of several distinct branches proposed to him.