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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 regular
session of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session
of laboratory work, or five hours a week or five laboratory periods a week
for a term of six weeks in the Summer Quarter.

It is equal to two semester hours or three quarter hours.

Maximum and Minimum Number of Session-Hours.—Each student may
undertake each term courses aggregating three session-hours (with the
exception noted in paragraph I.

(I) A student may take four session-hours, provided he (a) has passed
in the regular session at the college last attended courses aggregating fifteen
session-hours, or (b) is in his graduating year and needs four session-hours
for his degree.

Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special
permission of the Dean of the Summer Quarter and all of the professors
concerned.

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

Grade.—The grade of a student in any course 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. For passing in any course a grade
of seventy-five per cent. is required.

For certificate regulations, see page 28.

Report of Grades.—A report of the final grade in each course pursued
is mailed to each student as soon as practicable after the close of
each term.

The names of students who passed will be posted as soon as reported
after each examination but no grades will be given out from the Registrar's
Office.

Transcript of Records.—After the original record is issued, a charge
of twenty-five cents will be made for each transcript of a record. Remittance
should accompany each application.

Report of State Credits.—State credits and State certificates will be
sent from the Department of Public Instruction, Richmond. Students who
fail to get their certificates should communicate with the Supervisor Certification,
State Board of Education, Richmond, Virginia.

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 attended
after the absence.

Absence from Examinations will not be excused, except for sickness
on the day of 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, in accordance with above, is entitled to a special examination
on a date to be arranged between himself and the professor in
charge of the examination.

Re-examinations.—A student whose 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 reexamination
upon that course during the first two days of registration of
the following Summer Quarter. All applicants for re-examination must
register and pay the fee of $2.50 on or before the first of June.

The Honor System.—All examinations are held under the Honor System.
Its administration is entirely in the hands of the students through the
Honor Committee.