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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 regular session of
lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of laboratory
work, or five hours a week or five laboratory periods a week for a term of six
weeks in the Summer Quarter.

It is equal to two semester-hours or three quarter-hours.

Maximum and Minimum Number of Session-Hours.—Each student may undertake
each term courses aggregating three session-hours (with the exception
noted in paragraph I.)

(I) A student may take four session-hours, provided he (a) has passed in
the regular session at the college last attended courses aggregating fifteen session-hours,
or (b) is in his graduating year and needs four session-hours for his degree.

Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special permission
of the Dean of the Summer Quarter and all of the professors concerned.

Grade.—The grade of a student in any course 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.
For passing in any course a grade of seventy-five per cent. is required.

For certificate regulations, see page 31.

Report of Grades.—A report of the final grade in each course pursued is
mailed to each student as soon as practicable after the close of each term.

The names of students who passed will be posted as soon as reported after
each examination but no grades will be given out from the Registrar's Office.

Transcript of Records.—After the original record is issued, a charge of
twenty-five cents will be made for each transcript of a record. Remittance
should accompany each application.

Report of State Credits.—State credits and State certificates will be sent
from the Department of Public Instruction, Richmond. Students who fail to
get their certificate should communicate with the Supervisor of Certification,
State Board of Education, Richmond, Virginia.

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 attended after the absence.

Absence from Examinations will not be excused, except for sickness on the
day of 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, in accordance with above, is entitled to a special examination on a date
to be arranged between himself and the professor in charge of the examination.

Re-examinations.—A student whose 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 re-examination upon that
course during the first two days of registration of the following Summer Quarter.
All applicants for re-examination must register and pay the fee of $2.50.

The Honor System.—All examinations are held under the Honor System.
Its administration is entirely in the hands of the students through the Honor
Committee.