DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1. Registration of New Students.—Before registration in the
Law School, students who have not before been registered in any
department of the University, must produce to the Dean of the
Law School (office in Minor Hall), a certificate from the Dean of
the University (office, No. 6 East Lawn), that entrance requirements
have been fulfilled.
2. Registration Generally.—Students must register in advance at
the Dean's office and with the Registrar for every course taken,
and no credit will be given for courses taken without proper registration.
3. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration therefor,
no course may be exchanged or omitted except on the written
approval of the professor in charge and of the Dean.
4. Work for Which Student May Register.—No candidate for
the degree is permitted to register, in any year, for courses aggregating
more than 450 units—including subjects taken but not completed
in a previous year, nor, in any case, for new courses aggregating
more than 350 units.
No student, without special permission, and for good cause,
may register for less than six periods per week.
4a. Advanced Work.—Students of one year are not permitted to
anticipate any of the courses of a subsequent year, without urgent
reasons satisfactory to the Dean.
5. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit will be given for the
completion of any course upon which the student has entered after
fifty per centum of the lectures thereon have been delivered.
6. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required
lectures upon any subject may, on written application, with the
endorsed approval of the professor in charge, and of the Dean, secure
optional attendance on such subjects the following session—
provided the exercise of this privilege does not reduce his lecture
periods below eight per week.
7. Attendance and Work.—Every student of the Law School is
required to attend all regular exercises of the classes of which he
is a member, and to perform all the work assigned, including quizzes
and examinations, unless excused for good cause by the Faculty.
Students whose condition of health is too precarious to permit
regular attendance upon lectures, but not serious enough to admit
them as patients of the hospital, will be required to withdraw from
the University until able to resume their regular work.
8. Conditions for Re-Admission.—Any student who, without
satisfactory cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations,
a credit of 100 units, or, in lieu thereof, a grade of 75 per
centum on each of two or more courses aggregating 150 units, will
be excluded from the Law School the following session. The result
of one or more special examinations, granted for cause under
existing regulations, may be considered in determining whether
this requirement has been met.
The foregoing provisions do not affect third-year students applying
for re-admission, nor students who have been permitted,
for cause, to take less than two-thirds of a full year's work. Such
students will be subject to exclusion or other conditions as the
Law Faculty may prescribe.
In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 4 foregoing,
limiting the amount of work which any student may register for in
a single year.
9. Students Admitted on Terms by reason of previous unsatisfactory
record in the Law School, or other department of the University,
shall be held to an average class grade (or examination grade,
in classes in which class grades are not recorded) of eighty per
centum, in the work of the first term. Failure to attain this grade
without satisfactory cause shall operate to exclude such delinquent
from the Law School for the remainder of the session. An average
class grade of less than eighty per centum, at the end of any term,
will be regarded as evidence of a lack of the diligence required by
the terms of this condition.
9a. First-Year Students.—Failure on the part of any first-year student,
without just cause, to attain, for the first term, an average grade
of seventy-five per centum on the daily written quizzes, will place such
student on probation for the remainder of the session, and the student
and his parent or guardian will be so notified. Unless, in the
opinion of the Law Faculty, a decided improvement in the character
of such student's work is indicated at the end of the second term, he
will be required to withdraw from the Law School.
10. Special Examinations.—No special examinations are granted,
save in cases of sickness on the day of examination (attested by
physician's certificate), or for other imperative cause approved by
the Law Faculty. In no case will such examination be granted,
unless prompt application be made therefor.
11. Re-Examinations—Third Year Students.—Candidates for the
degree, who have failed on one or more subjects during their third
year, may return the following session, and stand the regular examinations
on such subjects, without further attendance upon lectures.
But this privilege may be exercised but once—that is to
say, after a second failure the candidate must take the lectures
over again, on the subject or subjects on which he has for a second
time proved deficient.
12. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations
as are mentioned in the preceding regulation, is five dollars for
each examination taken. Students who, under such circumstances,
return for further lectures, and who have paid full matriculation
and tuition fees for three years, pay a matriculation fee in proportion
to the amount of work taken plus $5 for each course taken.
There is no charge for special examinations granted for imperative
cause.
13. Application for Degree.—Candidates for graduation are required
to file a written application with the Dean, not later than
November 15 of their third year, stating the courses completed,
with the credit value of each, together with a schedule of the
courses to be pursued during their final year, with the credit value
of such courses attached. Blanks for this purpose will be supplied
on application to the Dean.
14. Required Withdrawal.—The right is reserved to require the
withdrawal of any student who, in the opinion of the Faculty, is
not profiting, nor likely to profit, by the instruction offered, or whose
neglect or irregular performance of required duties, after admonition,
indicates indifference or contumacy.
