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RESIDENCE AND ATTENDANCE

The Academic Year begins on the Thursday preceding the nineteenth
of September and continues for thirty-nine weeks. Thanksgiving Day and Jefferson
Day are holidays, and there is a Christmas recess beginning on the
last week-day before the twenty-third of December and closing on the evening
of the second of January.

Attendance is required of each student throughout the entire session,
with the exception of holidays, unless he receives permission to be temporarily
absent, or to withdraw before the close of the session. While in residence each
student is required to attend regularly all lectures and other prescribed exercises
in the course which he pursues, or else suffer such penalties as may be imposed
for unexcused absences.

Voluntary Withdrawal from the University requires the written consent
of the Dean of the Department of Education.

Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted by the departmental faculty for habitual
delinquency in class, habitual idleness or any other fault which prevents the
student from fulfilling the purposes for which he should have come to the
University.

Absence from Examinations.—Written examinations are an essential part
of the work of every course in the University, and attendance upon them
is required of every student. Absence may be excused only on the ground of
sickness on the day of examination (attested by a physician's certificate), or
for other imperative cause which may be approved by the several faculties of
the University.

Special Examinations are granted only upon prompt application therefor,
and in case the applicant's absence from the regular examination has been
excused.

Honor System.—All examinations are held under the Honor System, and
an unpledged paper is counted a total failure. In matters of class standing as
well students are expected to regard themselves as governed by the law of
honor.

Prohibition of Credit.—An act of the Legislature prohibits merchants and
others, under severe penalties, from crediting minor students. The license to
contract debts, which the President is authorized to grant, is limited (except
when the parent or guardian requests otherwise in writing) to cases of urgent
necessity.