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 fifteen session-hours,
except by special permission of the Academic Faculty. This
number may be increased in the following cases:
(1) First-year students may take eighteen session-hours, provided (a)
three of these be in Greek 1, Greek 2, German 1, French 1, or Spanish 1; or
(b) the student in question has been credited with six hours of advanced
standing.
(2) Other than first-year students may take eighteen session-hours,
provided (a) the student has passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
fifteen session hours, or (b) the student is in his graduating year and
needs eighteen session-hours for his degree. In the latter case the special
permission of the Academic Faculty must be obtained.
(3) Other than first-year students may take twenty-one session-hours,
provided they have passed in the preceding session courses aggregating fifteen
session-hours, with a grade of at least ninety per cent on each course.
Under no circumstances shall a student take more than twenty-one session-hours.
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 who fails on a single term of not more than
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 reöxamination fee is charged.
Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade in all
his courses for any term is less than fifty per cent, will be dropped from
the rolls.
Any first-year student whose average grade for any term is fifty 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 if he again
fails to attain for the current term a grade of sixty-five per cent in at least
one of his courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.
Any student other than a first-year student whose average grade for
any term is fifty per cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses
a grade of seventy-five per cent, will be put on probation for the term next
ensuing, and if he again fails to attain for the current term a grade of
seventy-five per cent in at least one of his courses, or sixty-five per cent in
at least two of his courses, he 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. 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.
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.
