Related Clues:

• Grad-school proposal
• Argument you may start in school
• . . . on a dentist bill
• Thesis defense, e.g
• Job interview, sort of
• Postgrad challenge
• Dissertation based on research
• That life evolves, to Darwin
• Scholarly dissertation
• Tests the French, in a manner of speaking, on paper
• You may stick your tongue out at one
• Tests the Spanish, in a manner of speaking, on paper
• Article by relative that may have been written at university
• Doctoral writing
• Tests the German, in a manner of speaking, on paper