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 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 holidays, 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. 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.
Absence from the University is permitted upon the written leave of
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 musical clubs 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 291. The same regulations apply, mutatis mutandis,
to members of other student organizations.
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 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, p. 177; the Department of Law,
pp. 209-210; the Department of Medicine, pp. 215-216; the Department
of Engineering, p. 254.
Honor System.—All examinations in the University 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 15.
