DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
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 work done in any course without
proper registration therefor.
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 Dean, and will be charged a special
registration fee of three dollars.
4. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration 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 5.
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 150 periods, or, in
lieu thereof, a grade of 75 per centum on courses aggregating 200 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 may be prescribed.
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. 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; or whose habits are a menace to the good order of the Law
School.
