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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 that entrance requirements
have been fulfilled.

2. Registration Generally.—Students must register in advance at the
office of the Dean of the Law School and with the Registrar for every course
taken, and no credit will be given for work done in any course without proper
registration therefor.

3. Delayed Registration.—Students are not permitted to delay their
registration through carelessness or for inadequate reasons. Any student, new
or old, who fails to present himself for registration during the first three
days of the session, and between the hours of nine a. m. and two p. m. on the
first week-day after the Christmas Recess, will be charged a special
registration fee of three dollars.

4. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration no course
may be exchanged or omitted except on the written approval of the professor
in charge and of the Dean.

5. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work.—Students who are deficient in
the work of one year will be permitted to take but a limited amount of the
work of the succeeding year.

6. Minimum for Which Student Must Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than ten periods
per week.

7. Advanced Work.—Students of one year are not permitted to anticipate
the courses of a subsequent year, without urgent reasons satisfactory to
the Dean.

8. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit is given for the completion
of any course upon which the student has entered after fifty per centum of
the lectures thereon have been delivered. See Requirements for Graduation,
ante, p. 8.

9. Optional Attendance.—A student who has failed on an examination
but who has attended the required lectures on the subject may, on
written application, with the endorsed approval of the professor in charge,
and of the Dean, secure optional attendance on such subject the following
session, but subject to Regulation 5. Re-examinations are not granted
in any other form.

10. General Requirements.—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.

11. Invalids.—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.

12. Conditions of Readmission.—Any student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations, credit for courses
comprising in the aggregate at least 150 lecture periods, or, in lieu thereof,
a grade of 75 per cent on courses aggregating 200 periods, 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.

In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 5 foregoing.

13. Students Admitted on Terms of Diligence, by reason of previous
unsatisfactory record in the Law School or other department of the University,

or in another institution, will be held to an average class grade (or examination
grade, in classes in which class grades are not recorded) of 75
per cent, in the work of the first term. Failure to attain this grade without
satisfactory cause, unless the result of his other examinations shall
raise his average grade to the required standard, will operate to exclude
such delinquent from the Law School for the remainder of the session.
An average class grade of less than 75 per cent, at the end of any term,
will be regarded as evidence of a lack of the diligence required by the
terms of this condition.

14. 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 75 per
cent 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.

15. Absence from the University is permitted on the written leave of
the Dean of the Law School. But leaves of absence for the purpose of accompanying
the athletic teams or musical clubs on excursions will not be
granted, except to the officers and members of the organizations. Nor, except
for good cause, may leaves be granted in anticipation or extension of
holidays.

16. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors for sickness
or other providential cause. Such excuses must be rendered promptly.
Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined.

17. 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.

18. Third-Year Students—Incomplete Work.—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. See Regulation 9.

19. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the preceding regulation is $5 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.

There is no charge for special examinations granted for imperative cause.

20. Application for Degree.—Candidates for graduation are required
to file a written application with the Dean, not later than November 15th of
their third year, indicating the courses completed, together with a schedule
of the courses to be pursued during their final year. Blanks for this purpose
will be supplied at the Dean's office.

21. 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;
or whose habits are a menace to the good order of the Law School.

22. Honor System.—All examinations are conducted under the Honor
System.