[2] The Committee was willing, on the other hand, to permit the possessors of a learned degree not only to settle in the interior but also to enter the civil service.

The Jewish university graduate was thus expected to submit a scholarly paper or even a doctor dissertation for two purposes, for procuring the right of residence in some Siberian locality and for the right of serving the State.

Particular "circumspection" was recommended by the Committee with reference to Jewish medical men: a Jewish physician, without the degree of M.D., was not to be permitted to pass beyond the Pale.
[Footnote 1: Such as technological, veterinary, dental, and other professional schools, which are independent of the universities.] [Footnote 2: _Magister_ in Russia corresponds roughly to the same title in England and America.

It is inferior to the doctor degree and precedes it.

_Candidate_ is a title, now mostly abolished, given to the best university students who have completed their course and have presented a scholarly paper, without having passed the full examination.] In this shape the question was submitted to the Council of State in 1861.