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REGULATIONS.

The Session-Hour.—All courses are measured in terms of the session-hour
as a unit. A session-hour is one hour a week throughout the session
of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of
laboratory work.

Maximum and Minimum of Session-Hours in One Session.—Each
student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating at
least fifteen session-hours. This number may be increased in the following
cases:

(1) First-year students may take eighteen session-hours, provided (a)
three of these be in Greek A1, Greek A2, German 1, French 1, or Spanish
1; or (b) the student in question is credited with six hours of advanced
standing.

(2) Other than first-year students may take eighteen session-hours,
provided the student (a) has passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
fifteen session-hours, or (b) is repeating a course on which
he failed in the preceding session, or (c) is in his graduating year and
needs eighteen session-hours for his degree.

(3) Other than first-year students may take twenty-one session-hours,
provided they have passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
fifteen session-hours, with a general average of at least ninety per cent.

Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special
permission of the Academic Faculty.

Physical training is not counted in the maximum and minimum requirements
detailed above.

Grade.—The grade of a student in any course, either for a term or
for the session, is determined by his class standing and his examination
grade, combined in such proportion as the professor in charge of the
course in question may decide. Class standing in any course is determined
by the regularity of the student's attendance upon the lectures
(and laboratory or other similar exercises) of the course, and by the
quality of his work, as indicated by his recitation grades, written tests,
laboratory work, etc.

Grade Required for Passing.—For passing in any course a grade of
seventy-five per cent is required.

Grade Required for Reexamination.—A student whose session grade
in any course falls below seventy-five per cent, but not below sixty-five
per cent, may, upon the written recommendation of the professor in
charge, be admitted to reëxamination upon that course, or upon such portion
of it as the professor shall determine, during the registration week
of the following September. The fee for each reëxamination is five dollars,
and must be paid to the Bursar on or before July 15.

An applicant for a degree who fails on a single term of not more
than one of his courses during the last year of his candidacy, is entitled
to a special examination before Final Day on the work of that term, and
will receive credit for the course, provided the result of this special examination
entitles him to a grade of seventy-five per cent for the term in
question, considered independently and without reference to his grade
for the other two terms. In such cases no reëxamination fee is charged.

Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade in all
his courses for any term is less than fifty per cent, will be dropped from
the rolls.

Any first-year student whose average grade for any term is fifty per
cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses a grade of sixty-five
per cent, will be put on probation for the term next ensuing, and if
he again fails to attain for the current term a grade of sixty-five per cent
in at least one of his courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.

Any student other than a first-year student whose average grade for
any term is fifty per cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses
a grade of seventy-five per cent, will be put on probation for the term
next ensuing, and if he again fails to attain for the current term a grade
of seventy-five per cent in at least one of his courses, or sixty-five per
cent in at least two of his courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.

A student who through neglect of his work is evidently making no
real progress in a course may at any time, after due admonition, be required
to drop the course in question; and if, for the current term or for
any succeeding term of the current session, his grade in any one of his
remaining courses falls below forty per cent, he will be put on probation.

Advisers.—To each first-year student is assigned, before his registration
is completed, a member of the faculty as his adviser, whose acquaintance
he should cultivate, and whom he may feel free to consult on any
question touching his work or his life as a student of this university.

Subjects of Study in a student's schedule may be changed, dropped, or
added to, only with the consent of his adviser and of the professors concerned,
and only within the first two weeks of each term, except that first-year
students may make such changes at any time during the first month
of the session.

Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but only
for sickness or like providential cause. Any explanation of an absence
which a student has to offer must be made on the day of the first lecture
after the absence. Unexcused absences from lectures render the student
liable to such penalties as his professors may impose, or, in serious cases,
to faculty discipline. No student who has, for any reason, been absent
from more than fifty per cent of the lectures of any one term, can receive
a grade on the work of that term.

Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of the examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for
other cause which the faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused
absence is counted as a total failure.

Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, is entitled to a special examination on a date to be arranged
between himself and the professor in charge, not later than the
end of the registration period of the following session.

Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent or
guardian of each student. These reports indicate the number of times the
student has been absent from lectures, and give his term grade in each
course. Preliminary reports on attendance and class-standing are made
on November 4 to the parent or guardian of every first-year student. The
Dean will be glad at any time to furnish to the proper person a special
report on any student's standing.