REGULATIONS.
The Session-Hour.—All courses are measured in terms of the session-hour
as a unit. A session-hour is one hour a week throughout the session
of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of
laboratory work.
Maximum and Minimum Number of Session-Hours in One Session.—
Each College student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating
fifteen session-hours (with the exception noted below under
Minimum Grade Required). This number may be increased in the following
cases:
(1) Any first-year student may take eighteen session-hours, provided
(a) three of these be in Greek A1, Greek A2, German A1, French A or
Spanish A; or (b) the student in question is credited with six session-hours
of advanced standing.
(2) A student not in his first year in the College may take eighteen
session-hours, provided he (a) has passed in the preceding session courses
aggregating fifteen session-hours, or (b) is repeating a course on which he
failed in the preceding session, or (c) is in his graduating year and needs
eighteen session-hours for his degree.
(3) A student not in his first year may take twenty-one session-hours
provided he passes in the preceding session courses aggregating eighteen
session-hours, or provided he is repeating a six-hour course on which he
failed.
Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special
permission of the Academic Faculty.
Physical Training is not counted in the maximum and minimum requirements
detailed above.
Grade.—The grade of a student in any course, either for a term or
for the session, is determined by his class standing and his examination
grade, combined in such proportion as the professor in charge of the
course in question may decide. Class standing in any course is determined
by the regularity of the student's attendance upon the lectures
(and laboratory or other similar exercises) of the course, and by the
quality of his work, as indicated by his recitation grades, written tests,
laboratory work, etc.
Grade Required for Passing.—For passing in any course a grade of
seventy-five per cent is required.
Grade Required for Reëxamination.—A student whose session grade
in any course falls below seventy-five per cent, but not below sixty-five
per cent, may, upon the written recommendation of the professor in
charge, be admitted to reëxamination upon that course, or upon such portion
of it as the professor shall determine, during the registration week
of the following September. The fee for each reëxamination is five dollars,
and must be paid to the Bursar on or before July 15.
An applicant for a degree who fails on a single term of not more
than one of his courses during the last year of his candidacy, is entitled
to a special examination before Final Day on the work of that term, and
will receive credit for the course, provided the result of this special examination
entitles him to a grade of seventy-five per cent for the term in
question, considered independently and without reference to his grade
for the other two terms. In such cases no reëxamination fee is charged.
Minimum Grade Required.—(1) (a) A student whose grade in a
course for any term is less than fifty per cent shall be considered as making
no real progress in the course and shall be dropped from the rolls of
the class by the Registrar, unless the professor recommends in writing to
the Registrar, on the term report of the class, that the student be kept on
the rolls.
(b) A student who through neglect of his work is evidently making
no real progress in a course may at any time, after due admonition, be required
by the professor concerned and the dean, to drop the course in question.
(2) A student, dropped from any course under the above regulation,
who has been successful for the term on at least six session-hours and has
a grade of at least sixty-five per cent on three session-hours of his other courses
may, at the discretion of the dean, and of the professor whose course he
desires to enter, substitute at the beginning of the following term a new
course for the one from which he has been dropped, provided that this substitution
will not bring his total number of session-hours above fifteen.
(3) Any student who through enforcement of these regulations is left
with only twelve session-hours, and who does not pass on six session-hours
and average at least sixty per cent on six session-hours of the remaining
courses, for any ensuing term; and any student left with nine
session-hours, who does not pass on six session-hours and receive a grade
of at least sixty-five per cent on the three session-hours of his remaining
course for any ensuing term shall be dropped from the University.
(4) Any student, other than a first-year student, who through enforcement
of these regulations is left with less than nine session-hours shall be
dropped from the University. A first-year student who through enforcement
of these regulations is left with less than nine session-hours, shall be
dropped from the University unless he shall have made a grade of seventy-five
per cent on three session-hours, and at least sixty-five per cent on the
other three session-hours. But any student who is permitted under this condition
to remain in the University, shall be required to take up new courses
sufficient to bring his session-hours up to twelve, and shall be dropped from
the University if in the next ensuing term he does not pass on six session-hours
and average at least sixty per cent on the remaining six session-hours.
(5) The dean shall have power to suspend the enforcement of any of
the above regulations in any case in which the low grade was the result of
circumstances over which the student had no control.
Advisers.—To each first-year student is assigned, before his registration
is completed, a member of the faculty as his adviser, whose acquaintance
he should cultivate, and whom he may feel free to consult on any
question touching his work or his life as a student of this university. The
relation between the student and his adviser is purely voluntary on both
sides, except that the student is expected to call to see his adviser at least
once early in the session and that the consent of the adviser must be obtained
before the student can make a change in his course of study.
Change of Studies.—Subjects of study in a student's schedule may be
changed, dropped, or added to, only with the consent of his adviser and
of the professors concerned, and only within the first two weeks of each
term, except that first-year students may make such changes at any time
during the first month of the session.
Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but only
for sickness or like providential cause. Any explanation of an absence
which a student has to offer must be made on the day of the first lecture
after the absence. Unexcused absences from lectures render the student
liable to such penalties as his professors may impose, or, in serious cases,
to faculty discipline. No student who has, for any reason, been absent
from more than fifty per cent of the lectures of any one term, can receive
a grade on the work of that term.
Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of the examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for
other cause which the faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused
absence is counted as a total failure.
Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, is entitled to a special examination on a date to be arranged
between himself and the professor in charge, not later than the
end of the registration period of the following session.
Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent or
guardian of each student. These reports indicate the number of times the
student has been absent from lectures, and give his term grade in each
course. Preliminary reports on attendance and class-standing are made
on November 4 to the parent or guardian of every first-year student. The
Dean will be glad at any time to furnish to the proper person a special
report on any student's standing.
