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Any department may examine students, at the end of the half-year immediately preceding the student's graduation, in the major subject in which such department has given instruction; and students to be examined in a major subject shall be excused from all course examinations in which said students shall have been enrolled during said half-year in the department of the major subject.

No student will be excused from assigned examinations.

Any student tardy at an examination will be debarred from taking it, unless an excuse for such tardiness entirely satisfactory to the examiner be rendered.

A fee of five dollars is charged for every special examination. Any supplementary or deferred test required by an instructor of a student for the purpose of making up a course left "incomplete" is regarded as a special examination. Students taking two or more such examinations in courses taken during any one half-year will be charged not to exceed ten (10) dollars for all such examinations, instead of being charged at the rate of five dollars for each examination.

Re-examinations are permitted only for the purpose of removing deficiencies.. Students who have received second grade or third grade in a given course are not allowed re-examinations for the purpose of improving their grading.

Application for examination for advanced standing on the basis of work done before entrance to the University should be made to the University Examiner upon entrance to the University.

GRADES OF SCHOLARSHIP

The results of examinations, together with term work when a record of the latter is kept, will for all undergraduate students be ranked and reported to the Recorder in five grades. The 1st grade denotes marked excellence. The 2nd grade indicates that the student's work has been thoroughly satisfactory. The 3rd grade denotes a pass. Courses in which students have obtained a 4th grade will not be credited to them, except upon the condition of passing a re-examination. The 5th grade indicates failure, and the necessity of repeating not only the examination of a course but also the regular work. The report in case of absence from a required examination, or of failure to perform any of the allotted tasks in a given course, is incomplete.

The reports in December, as in May, are final reports, not provisional reports, with the following exception: if the organization of the work permits and if the deficient student retains his status in the University, a grade 4 or an incomplete in the first half of a year course (a "doublenumber" course) may, at the discretion of the instructor in charge, be

removed upon the basis of the regular work and examinations of the second half year. In every such case the student should apply promptly to his instructor for advice. It is not to be assumed that a passing grade in the work of the second half-year removes a deficiency in the first half-year.

Graduate students may be ranked and reported in the foregoing grades or they may be graded merely passed or not passed at the discretion of the instructor in charge.

The entrance examinations are ranked and reported to the Recorder in five grades, corresponding with the five grades used for reporting upon university courses. In the case of entrance examinations, either a fourth grade (condition) or a fifth grade (failure) may be removed by passing a second examination.

CONDITIONS AND FAILURES

For the removal of conditions, the student has the privilege of taking the regular midyear or annual examinations in the subjects in which he is conditioned. Examinations may be held at other times only by the special permission of the Academic Senate and on payment of a fee of five dollars.

Every undergraduate student is required each half-year either (1) to pass in at least ten (10) units of duly registered work, or (2) to pass with first or second grade in courses aggregating at least eight (8) units of duly registered work; or if registered for less than eight units-to pass with first or second grade in all of the courses taken. Any student who fails to satisfy this requirement will be dropped from the roll. Independently of this rule, any student who neglects any part of the work for which he is registered (regardless of the number of units passed) may be dropped from the roll by faculty action. Any student dropped from the roll may be reinstated, after an interval of at least one halfyear, for reasons satisfactory to the Committee on Disqualified Students. It is therefore absolutely necessary for any disqualified student who proposes to return to the University to communicate without delay with this committee, through the Recorder of the Faculties, in order that the question of reinstatement may be considered by the committee and in order that the student may have ample opportunity to prepare for examinations or other tests which the committee may impose.

Any student who is reported as having failed in an examination, or who, after being conditioned, does not pass the re-examination for the removal of the condition, will be required to repeat every such deficient subject with the class that next takes it; unless, on recommendation of the officer of instruction in charge, the Faculty shall permit him to review a subject in which he is thus deficient with the assistance of an acceptable

private tutor; in which case he will be excused from attending the reci tations, but will be required to take the regular examinations at the end of the year or half-year.

Deficiencies in military science and physical education have the same effect as deficiencies in other subjects.

A matriculation deficiency in a subject continued in the University, in which the deficient student attains a rank of second grade, may be removed by the proper faculty on the recommendation of the officer of instruction in charge of the subject, with the approval of the chairman of the department. Students, however, are cautioned not to assume in advance that this will be done. In some departments no matriculation credit is given except upon matriculation examination.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND HONORABLE DISMISSAL

Prolonged leave of absence must be sought by written petition to the proper faculty.

Brief leave of absence. A student must apply for leave to be absent or excuse for having been absent from any college exercise other than an examination to the officer of instruction in charge of such exercise; unless, for unavoidable cause, the student is obliged to absent himself from all college exercises for one day or for several days, in which case the proper dean has authority to excuse. No excuse for absence will relieve the student from completing all the work of each course to the satisfaction of the instructor in charge.

Discontinuance without notice. Students who discontinue their work without formal leave of absence do so at the risk of having their registration privileges curtailed or entirely withdrawn.

Honorable dismissal, indicating that the student, while in good standing, has voluntarily severed his connection with the University, should be sought by written petition to the proper faculty. Without such petition no record of honorable dismissal will be made.

DISCIPLINE

The University authorities expect all students to set and observe among themselves a proper standard of conduct. It is therefore taken for granted that, when a student enters the University, he has an earnest purpose and studious and gentlemanly habits; and this presumption in his favor continues until, by neglect of duty or ungentlemanly behavior, he reverses it. But if an offense occurs, whether it be against good behavior or academic duty, the University authorities will take such action as the particular occurrence, judged in the light of the attendant circumstances,

may seem to them to require. Students who fail to make proper use of the opportunities freely given to them by the University must expect to have their privileges curtailed or withdrawn.

Grades of Censure.-Censure will be expressed in the four grades of probation, suspension, dismissal, and expulsion. Probation indicates that the student is in danger of exclusion from the University. Suspension is exclusion from the University for a definite period. Dismissal is exclusion for an indefinite period, and with the presumption that the student's connection with the University will be ended by it. Expulsion is the highest academic censure, and is final exclusion of the student from the University.

ATHLETICS

There is a standing committee on athletics, whose duty it is to supervise all matters relating to athletic contests, to promulgate and publish rules for the conduct thereof, and to represent the Academic Senate and Faculties in all matters that concern intercollegiate and other sports. This committee exercises its discretion in the conduct of all minor and routine matters relating to athletics, but on questions of broad university policy reports to the Senate. The faculties exercise such supervision over athletic contests, both intercollegiate and local, and over all matters pertaining thereto, as may appear necessary for the best interests of the University.

THESES FOR BACHELORS' DEGREES IN ENGINEERING AND AGRICULTURE

1. A student in any of the Engineering Colleges or the College of Agriculture may freely elect his thesis in any department offering work in the last two years of the college in which he is enrolled.

2. The subject of the thesis and the methods of work involved shall be appropriate to the aims of the college in which the student is enrolled. 3. On or before the first Monday of October of his senior year the student must present to his Study-Lists Committee a special Thesis Registration Card stating the department and the instructor with whom he elects to do his thesis work. This card must be approved by the instructor concerned.

4. The same rules and regulations shall apply to the thesis work that govern the student in regard to instruction, methods of withdrawal or substitution, grading, failure, etc., in other courses of instruction.

5. The candidate must report to the instructor in charge of his thesis work whenever called upon to do so.

6. The thesis must be presented in form sufficient for final examination and criticism by the instructor on or before the first Monday in April

7. The thesis must be submitted complete on or before the last day of April.

8. A student expecting to be graduated in December must have his thesis subject approved on the third Monday of the preceding February, present the work for examination and criticism on or before the third Monday in November, and submit the thesis complete on or before the last day of November. In all other respects he will be guided by the above instructions, 1-7.

NOTE.

The size of page for theses is 81⁄2 x 11 inches. Record ink should be used. For further instructions the student should consult the department in which his thesis work is taken.

HONORS

(a) Concerning honors with the bachelor's degree in the College of Letters and Science, in the College of Chemistry and in the College of Commerce see the sections explanatory of the work of these respective colleges in earlier pages of this circular.

(b) In the Colleges of Engineering and Agriculture students may receive honors with the bachelor's degree on the basis of the quality of the work done in the regular curriculum of the senior year, or of a thesis showing ability to do original work, or of distinction in the advanced work of any department, as attested by the recommendation of that department.

DEGREES

Every undergraduate student who intends to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Recorder of the Faculties a detailed schedule of studies offered for the degree sought. This schedule must be filed by regular students at least six calendar months, by all other students at least one full academic year, before the date proposed for graduation, and must be approved by the committee on graduation of the college in which the student is enrolled.

Of the one hundred and twenty (or more) units required for the bachelor's degree at least twenty-four units must have been completed at this University in resident courses of instruction taken during the final or senior year.

Courses not required by the curriculum for graduation may be dropped from the record of any student on formal petition to the Faculty concerned.

All the graduates of any one calendar year-January 1 to December 31-shall be ranked as belonging to the so-called class of that year.

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