RESIDENCE, ATTENDANCE AND GRADE.
The Academic Year extends from the morning of the Thursday
preceding the seventeenth of September to the evening of the Wednesday
before the nineteenth of June. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday,
and there is a Christmas recess beginning on the morning of
the twenty-fourth of December and closing on the evening of the
second of January.
Attendance is required of each student throughout the entire session,
with the exception of the days above indicated, unless he has
received permission to be temporarily absent, or to withdraw before
its close. Leave of absence is granted by the deans for sufficient reasons,
and must in every case be obtained in advance. Voluntary
withdrawal requires the written consent of the student's professors
and of the dean of the university. While in residence each student
is required to attend regularly all lectures and other prescribed exercises
and all examinations in the courses which he pursues (unless
excused for cause) and in every way to conform to the regulations
of the university.
Absence from the university is permitted upon the written leave
of the dean of the department in which the student is registered, obtained
in every case in advance. 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.
Absence of Athletic Teams and Other Student Organizations.—
The laws relating to absence from the university of members of the
Athletic teams are found in the section upon Physical Training (pp.
310-311). The same resolutions apply,
mutatis mutandis, to members
of other student organizations.
Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but
only for sickness or like providential cause. Such excuses must be
rendered on the day of the first lecture attended after the absence.
Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to be
disciplined by the faculty. In case of delayed entrance the student
is regarded as having been absent from all lectures or other exercises
that have been given, in the courses which he enters, since the beginning
of the session.
Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of examination (attested by a physician's certificate)
or other cause which the faculty of the department by special order
may approve. An unexcused absence, or the presentation of an unpledged
paper, is counted as a total failure in the examination in which
it occurs. A student whose absence from examination is excused
is admitted to the Fall Examination in the subject in question in each
of the departments where such examinations are held. Where necessary,
he is admitted to a special examination.
Change of Schools, with transfer of fees, can not be made except
by special order of the faculty. But a student may change from
one class to another of the same school with the advice and consent
of the professors concerned.
The Grade of the Student in any course, either for a term or for
the session, is determined by the combined class standing and the
result of examination, each being considered in such proportion as
the professor in charge may decide for the course in question.
Class Standing in any course is determined by the regularity of
attendance of the student upon the lectures (and laboratory or other
similar exercises where included) in the course in question, and by
the faithful performance of his work as indicated by his answers when
questioned, by his written exercises, notebooks, the faithful performance
of laboratory (or other similar) work, etc. Students are regarded
by the faculty as under the law of honor in matters affecting
class standing as in examinations.
The Grades for Passing in any course, required by the various
departments of the university, are as follows:
in the College, the Department of Graduate Studies, the
Department of Engineering, and the Department of
Agriculture |
75 per centum |
| in the Department of Medicine |
80 per centum |
| in the Department of Law |
83 per centum |
Re-Examination in September.—A student of the College, of the
Department of Graduate Studies, or of the Department of Engineering,
who attains in any course a grade for the session below 75 per
cent, but not below 65 per cent, may, upon written recommendation
of the professor in charge of the course, be admitted by the faculty
of the department at their final meeting in June to re-examination
upon that course during the registration week or the following September.
The fee for each re-examination is $5.00, and must be paid
to the bursar on or before July fifteenth preceding the opening of the
session.
Minimum Grade Required of College and Engineering Students.—
Any student in the College or in the Department of Engineering
whose average grade on all courses for any term is less than 40 per
cent will be dropped from the rolls of the university. Any student
who makes an average of 40 per cent or more, at the end of any term,
but whose grade on each of his courses is less than 65 per cent will
be put on probation for the term next ensuing. The student on probation
who again makes less than 65 per cent on each of his courses
at the end of the current term, will be dropped from the rolls.
A student in any department of the university who is evidently
making no real progress in one of his courses of study may at any
time, after due admonition, be required to drop the course in question.
A student in the College or the Department of Engineering
who falls under this rule will be put upon probation if he fails to
attain a grade of 40 per cent in a single one of his remaining courses
at a succeeding examination.
Voluntary Withdrawal from the university requires the written
consent of the student's professors and of the dean of the university.
When a permit is granted upon the university physician's certificate
that withdrawal is necessary on account of the student's ill-health,
which must not be due to dissolute conduct, the fees are returned
pro rata. Under no other circumstances will there be a
return of fees.
Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted by the faculty for habitual delinquency
in class, habitual idleness, or any other fault which prevents
the student from fulfilling the purposes for which he should
have come to the university. See also "Minimum Grade" above.
