ADMINISTRATION

Classification of Students

The classification of students takes into consideration nothing but the amount of work which has been accomplished or which remains to be accomplished in order to obtain the degree. Students will not be matriculated with conditions which cannot be made up by the end of a year in addition to the carrying of fifteen hours of work, but their names may be registered as candidates for matriculation. Freshmen are students who will probably have obtained at the end of the College year a credit of fifteen hours. Other students are designated second, third and fourth-year students with reference to the probable date of graduation, but it may not be possible to apply these designtaions with exactness in every case.

Class Attendance

Regularity of attendance upon class exercises will be taken into consideration in estimating the final grade of a student in any subject for a given year. Unavoidable interruptions to her work are sure to occur, and she should therefore allow herself no unnecessary absences. Absences from class exercises, if foreseen, should be explained in advance to the instructors concerned. If the number of a student's absences from any class shall amount to fifteen per cent of the total number of class exercises for the term, she shall be required to pass a special examination on the work of the class, at a time and of a character to be determined by the instructor. As included among the total absences for the term will be reckoned the number of recitations of the class prior to the dte of the student's entering it. If a student fails to pass any such examination she shall be reported to the Board of Control, who may exclude her from the course or take such other action as the case may, in their judgement, require.

Vacations and Recesses

Students are required to register before entering their classes at the beginning of the session and upon their return after the Christmas and Easter recesses. Particular care is taken to arrange the beginning and the ending of holiday seasons, in such a way that the student may receive the greatest benefit from the temporary cessation of study with the least possible disadvantage to her work. It is urgently requested that students remain until all recitations are over and return in time to resume work with their classes. The first hours of study after such an interruption are of double importance. Class work will not await the return of tardy students, and instructors will not feel themselves obliged to renew for them neglected opportunities. An instructor may demand a special examination upon ommitted work, and if the examination should prove unsatisfactory, may require the delinquent student to make up the work with in a limited time under a tutor, for whose services an additional charge will be made.

Attendance Upon Lectures

Students are expected to give attendance upon such lectures as may occasinally be provided for their instruciton or entertainment, especially when upon topics connected with a branch of study which they are pursuing. Upon notification to that effect by the instructor concerned, attendance upon such lectures may be constituted a part of the work required in a particular subject.

Examinations

Examinations are held by each instructor at such times, and as grequently, as he deems required by his work. A general examination, to be known as the Annual Examination, is held at the close of the year. Examinations should be taken at the times regularly appointed for them. No examination out of the regular order may be given except by direction of the Dean, and five dollars will be charged for the issuance of the permit therefor.

Reports

Formal reports upon the standing of students are made only at the end of each session. A student whose work in any department is unsatisfactory may be reported at any time by her instructor to the Board of Examiners, and the action of the Board in her case is made known to her by the Dean. If a second admonition should become necessary, a report is made by the Dean to the person responsible for the student's charges. Upon a third unfavorable report, the Board of Examiners may drop the student from her class, without credits, and may call upon her either to repeat the course, if it is included in required work, or to substitute another for it in the following year, if it is an elective course.

Final reports upon courses are made in the terms, failed, conditioned, passed, passed with credit. A condition is interpreted to be a definite portion of the course, to be made up by a fixed time. Unless it is so made up the student masy be marked failed and required, as above, either to repeat the course or to substitute another for it.

All reports are embodied in permanent charts, which set forth the work done by the student, the year in which it was done, the quality of the work and the credit which it received. These charts are carefully preserved and the record of a former student may be obtained at any time.

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