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GENERAL REGULATIONS

1. Registration Generally.—Students are required to register in advance
at the office of (1) The Dean of the Law School; (2) The Bursar; and (3)
The University Registrar, for every course taken. Registration is not complete
until fees have been paid or proper arrangement for payment made with
the Bursar.

2. Suspension for Non-payment of Fees.—A student who is in default
in the payment of fees and has so remained for fifteen days will be suspended,
and deprived of all privileges of the Law School, until his financial relations
with the University have been arranged satisfactorily with the Bursar.

3. Delayed Registration.—Students are not permitted to delay registration
through carelessness or for inadequate reasons. Any student, new or old,
who fails without good cause, to present himself for registration during the first
three days of the session, and between the hours of nine A. M. and one-thirty
P. M. on the first week-day after the Christmas Recess, will be charged a
special registration fee of five dollars.

4. Minimum for Which Students May Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than a full year's
work as scheduled.

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

6. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit is given for the completion
of any course upon which the student has entered after 50 per cent. of the
lectures thereon in any term have been delivered. See requirements for Graduation,
ante, p. 367.

7. Courses Extending Through More Than One Term of the Session.—

a. Real Property I and Real Property II are so far regarded as separate
courses that one may be passed, and credited, and the other failed. They are
so far regarded as a single course that both may be absolved by attaining, in
the same session, grades which average the passing grade.

b. All other courses extending through more than one term will be
credited only in their entirety, each as a single course. Regular examinations
will be held, however, at the end of each term during which such a course is
given, and will be reported to the Dean's Office, for disciplinary purposes,
but the final grade for the entire course will be based upon the several term
examinations, with the usual adjustments for attendance, written exercises
and recitations. The last examination in such a course may cover the entire
subject.

8. First-Year Students.—Failure on the part of any first-year student,
without just cause, to attain, for the first term, an average examination grade
of 80 per cent. will place such student on probation (see Regulation 11) for
the remainder of the session, and the student and his parent or guardian will be
so notified. Unless marked improvement in the character of his work is indicated
at the end of the second term, his resignation may be required.

9. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work from the First Year.—Subject to
regulations below, students who have been found deficient in two or more
courses prescribed for the first year may be re-admitted on probation (see
Regulation 11). Where the Law Faculty deems the deficiency serious enough
the student must repeat the lectures in the courses in which he is deficient.
No optional attendance is permissible in the latter case, and only such a limited
amount of new work may be taken as will not conflict with the previously
incomplete work.

10. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work from the Second Year.—A candidate
for the degree who has proved deficient in one or more subjects required
in the second year may be required to repeat such courses without
privileges in optional attendance, or otherwise, and may be on probation in any
term during which he is repeating a second-year course.

11. Probation.—Students on probation are not entitled to leaves of absence
except for imperative cause, nor are they permitted to become members
or officials of athletic, musical, debating or other student organizations which
publicly represent the University. Any student on probation may be required
to resign unless his work indicates a marked improvement.

12. Conditions of Readmission.—A student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations, credit for courses
comprising in the aggregate at least 325 lecture periods, will be excluded from
the Law School the following session, but may be permitted to return, on
conditions, the next session thereafter.

In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 9 foregoing.

13. 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.

14. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required
lectures on any subject, required in the first year, but has failed on the
examinations, may, with the approval of the Dean, secure optional attendance
on such subject the following session, to the extent necessitated by actual
conflict in schedule with the regular courses of the second year, but subject
to Regulation 9.

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

16. General Requirements.—Students of the Law School are required to
attend all regular exercises of the classes of which they are members, and to
perform all the work assigned, including quizzes and examinations, unless excused
for good cause.

17. Absence from Lectures.—A careful record is kept of the absence
from lectures and omission of prescribed work. Such absences, unexcused,
render the student liable to be disciplined and detract from his class or examination
grade.

A student who has been absent for any cause from more than one-third
of the scheduled number of lectures in any course shall, prima facie, automatically
be denied the privilege of standing the examination in such course.
Under special circumstances, and upon special petition, the Law Faculty may
permit such a student to stand the examination in such course.

18. "Dean's List."—An average examination grade of 90 per cent. for
the first two years will entitle the student to a place on the "Dean's List,"
which carries with it special privileges with respect to absences from lectures.
The privilege will not exempt students from required practical work, nor from
review quizzes. The Dean may revoke the privilege if abused.

19. Extra-Curricular Activities—Reports to the Dean.—Students of the
Law School who propose to become members or officials of athletic, musical,
debating or other student organizations which publicly represent the University,
or who propose to devote a material portion of their time to work outside
the Law School, are required to report their names and proposed activities
at the Dean's office for official approval. In no case will such approval be
given to a student on probation.

20. Law Students Taking College Courses.—A Law Student, under
special circumstances, with the permission of the Dean, may register in the
College of Arts and Sciences for a course not exceeding three hours a week.

21. Special Examinations. (Subject to Regulation 24 below.)—No special
examinations are granted, save in case 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.

22. Re-Examinations.—No re-examinations are granted, except under
conditions stated in Regulations 14 and 23.

23. Third-Year Students—Incomplete Work.—A candidate for the degree
who at the end of his third year is found deficient in one or more subjects,
may return the following session and, without further attendance upon
lectures, stand the regular examinations on such of his uncompleted subjects
as the Dean and the professor or professors in charge may approve. 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. In exceptional
cases and for good cause this privilege may be extended to the student of any
year. See Regulation 14.

24. The Same.—Students in the category mentioned in the foregoing
regulation who return for a regular examination as mentioned, and who reside
250 miles from the University, may be granted the privilege of standing one
or more special examinations in incompleted courses scheduled for a later
term. The purpose of this provision is to avoid the expense of several return
trips.

25. Examinations in absentia.—Students entitled to one or more examinations
under Regulation 23, and who reside more than 300 miles from the
University, may, in the discretion of the Dean and of the professor or prefessors
in charge, be allowed the privilege of standing such examination or
examinations in absentia under approved supervision.

26. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the last three preceding regulations 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, are required
to 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,
under Regulation 21.

27. Elective Courses Required for Degree.—In addition to the satisfactory
completion of all required work a candidate for the degree must offer
credits of not less than 21 term-hours to be chosen by the student from the
elective courses offered in the third year.

Choice of Elective Courses.—Each applicant for a degree must upon his
matriculation sheet specifically designate those elective courses which the
candidate proposes to take in order to absolve the requirements under Regulation
27 (twenty-one term hours of elective courses) and under Regulation 29,
if applicable (thirty-one term hours). Such designation when definitely
made shall be final, and the candidate must pass the courses so elected in order
to obtain the degree. Grades in elective courses, as in obligatory courses in
the third year, will not be announced until after the publication of the degree
list in June. No addition nor substitution of elective courses after choice is
definitely made will be permitted except upon the approval of the Dean's
Office, for good cause shown.

28. 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, 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.

29. Graduation with Final Honors.—A candidate who is without substantial
deficiency in the work of the first two years may apply (See Regulation
28) for the award of the degree with Final Honors, by offering credits
for elective courses totaling at least 10 term-hours, in addition to the 21 term-hours
of elective courses mentioned in Regulation 27.

The degree of Bachelor of Laws with Final Honors may be conferred upon
any applicant who has completed all the prerequisite work, with an average
grade of at least 90 per cent. on the courses offered in his third year, but
subject to such special oral or written examinations as the Law Faculty may
prescribe in respect to each such application.

Caveat.—At the date of the preparation of this catalogue the whole question
of whether the Law School shall continue the degree of Bachelor of Laws

with Final Honors, and, if so, under what conditions, is being studied by a
committee of the Law Faculty. For this reason the catalogue announcement
is being left as it has appeared heretofore, but should be regarded as subject to
change for the session of 1936-1937.

30. 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 character or habits are a menace to the good order of the
Law School.

31. Honor System.—All written tests and examinations are conducted
under the Honor System.