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
office of the Dean of the Law School and with the Registrar for every course
taken, and no credit will be given for courses taken without proper
registration.
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 admitted to
registration only upon the consent of the president, and will be charged a
special registration fee of three dollars.
4. 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.
5. Maximum for Which Student May Register.—No candidate for
the degree is permitted to register, in any year, for courses comprising
in the aggregate more than 450 periods—including subjects taken but not
completed in a previous year—nor, in any case, for new courses aggregating
more than 350 periods.
6. Minimum for Which Student Must Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than
nine 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.
9. 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 nine per week,
nor infringe Regulation 4.
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 by the faculty.
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 Re-Admission.—Any student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations,
credit for courses completed, comprising in the aggregate at least 100
periods, or, in lieu thereof, a grade of 75 per centum on courses aggregating
150 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.
The foregoing provisions do not affect 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 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, will be held to an average class grade (or examination grade,
in classes in which class grades are not recorded) of 75 per centum, 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 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.
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 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.
15. Absence from the University is permitted upon the written leave
of the Dean of the Law School, 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.
16. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors 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.
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. 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.
19. 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.
20. Honor System.—All examinations are conducted under the
Honor System.
21. 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 on application to the Dean.
22. 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.
