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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 session
of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of
laboratory work.

Maximum and Minimum of Session-Hours in One Session.—Each
student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating not less
than fifteen nor more than eighteen session-hours. Any exception to this
rule can be made only by special consent of the Academic Faculty.

Change of Schools can be made only with the consent of the Dean
and of the professors concerned.

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 Reöxamination.—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 reöxamination 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 reöxamination is five dollars,
and must be paid to the Bursar on or before July fifteenth.

An applicant for a degree in any given session, whose grade for that
session in not more than one of his courses falls below seventy-five per
cent, but not below sixty-five per cent, is entitled to be reöxamined before
Final Day on that course, or on such portion of it as the professor may
determine. In such cases no reöxamination fee is charged.

Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade in all
his courses for any term is less than forty per cent, will be dropped from
the rolls. Any student whose average grade for any term is forty per
cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses a grade of sixty-five
per cent, will be put on probation for the term next ensuing, and
any student on probation who again fails to attain for the current term
a grade of sixty-five per cent in at least one of his courses, will be dropped
from the rolls.

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
to drop the course in question; and if, for the current term or for
any succeeding term of the current session, his grade in any one of his
remaining courses falls below forty per cent, he will be put on probation.

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 be disciplined by the Faculty.

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 unexcaused
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.

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. The Dean will be glad at any time to furnish to the proper person
a special report on any student's standing.