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EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREE.

The degree of Bachelor of Laws is conferred upon such students as
have attended two full sessions (of nine months each) of the law
school, and who manifest an intimate acquaintance with all the subjects
embraced in the course, evidenced by successfully passing all the
written examinations, in each of the classes, and who have satisfactorily
performed the Moot Court or other assigned work.

Any one of the five classes of the first or second year may be completed
separately, and for purposes of examination (only) the subjects
of Evidence and of Pleading and Practice are regarded as distinct
classes. Upon the satisfactory completion of any class, a certificate
is issued to the student, followed by the diploma of graduation when
(and not until) all the examinations, fifteen in number, have been successfully
passed.

Candidates who attain a grade of seventy-five per centum in any
class, but who fail to reach the minimum standard required for graduation
(eighty-three per centum), are entitled, after matriculation, to
stand an examination at the beginning of the following session on the
subjects comprised in the class or classes in which they have so failed,
and to receive the same credit for the result as if achieved during the
previous session.

Candidates for the degree, who in any session have less than one
full year's course to complete, may be required to take such additional
work, and to stand such additional examinations, as shall be prescribed.