RESIDENCE AND ATTENDANCE.
The Academic Year begins on the Thursday preceding the nineteenth of
September and continues for thirty-nine weeks. Thanksgiving Day and Jefferson
Day are holidays, and there is a Christmas recess beginning on the last weekday
before the twenty-fifth 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 holidays, unless he has received written permission to be temporarily
absent, or to withdraw before the close of the session. While in
residence each student is required to attend regularly all lectures and other
prescribed exercises in the courses which he pursues, or else suffer such penalties
as his professors may impose for unexcused absences.
Leave of Absence from the University is granted for sufficient reason by
the dean of the department in which the student is registered, and must in
every case be obtained in advance. But leaves of absence for the purpose of
accompanying the athletic teams or other student organizations on excursions
will not be granted except to the officers and members of these organizations.
The laws relating to absence from the University of members of the athletic
teams are found on page 226. The same regulations apply, mutatis mutandis,
to members of other student organizations.
Voluntary Withdrawal from the University requires the written consent
of the Dean of the University and the dean of the department in which
the student is registered. When a permit is granted upon the University
Physician's certificate that withdrawal is necessary on account of 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 several department faculties 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 the regulations as to delinquent students in the
various departments: The College, page 139; the Department of Law, pages
164-165; the Department of Medicine, pages 171-172; the Department of
Engineering, page 205.
Absence from Examinations.—Written examinations are an essential part
of the work of every course in the University, and attendance upon them is
required of every student. Absence may be excused only on the ground of
sickness on the day of the examination (attested by a physician's certificate), or
other imperative cause which may be approved by the several faculties of the
University.
Special Examinations are granted only upon prompt application therefor,
and in case the applicant's absence from the regular examination has been
excused. See the preceding paragraph.
Honor System.—All examinations are held under the Honor System, and
an unpledged paper is counted as a total failure. In matters of class standing
as well, students are expected to regard themselves as governed by the law of
honor. See page 13.
