In recommending graduates for admission to the University, the principals of accredited schools should use Recommendation Form A, with application for admission attached. Copies of this form are supplied by the University to the principals of all accredited schools in California.

The accrediting of a secondary school is regulated by an order of the Regents of the University passed March 4, 1884, and amended September 10, 1895, and January 10, 1905. Principals' applications for the accrediting of their schools must be in the hands of the Recorder of the Faculties at Berkeley on or before the first day of December of each school year. The list of accredited schools is published by the University annually, in the month of June or July. Blank forms of application for accrediting, and lists of accredited schools, may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties.

ADMISSION FROM APPROVED SCHOOLS IN OTHER STATES

Applicants from secondary schools outside of California are required to meet the same standards as applicants who enter from secondary schools in California. The committee in charge of admissions must have evidence of the following facts: that the school has an approved standing at universities or colleges of acknowledged rank; that the applicant has been graduated from a four-year course of not less than fifteen standard secondary units; and that the applicant has maintained an average scholarship standing well above the mark required by the school for promotion or graduation. The candidate may be certified by his principal upon the Principal's Recommendation, Form B. Copies of this form will be sent by the Recorder either to high school principals or to candidates for admission.

Applicants from states other than California will also be accepted upon presenting an admission certificate from any of the dental schools holding membership in the Dental Faculties Association of American Universities.

The schools holding membership in this association are: Harvard University Dental School, University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, University of Iowa School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, University of California College of Dentistry, Washington University Dental School, University of Illinois College of Dentistry, and Ohio State University College of Dentistry, Tufts College Dental School.

Students may be admitted to advanced standing from other dental schools (1) upon presenting a certificate issued by the Committee on Credentials at Berkeley showing that the applicant has had scholastic preparation equivalent to that demanded for admission to the University

of California; and (2) on presenting credentials for the first or second year's work, which must be approved by the faculty of the College of Dentistry.

ADMISSION BY EXAMINATION

Candidates who are unable to present satisfactory school certificates may be admitted to the University by passing examinations in the preparatory subjects constituting a standard high school course. The subjects to be presented must be arranged in advance with the University. The subjects to be required by the University will depend upon the applicant's high school training, his age, and his proposed course of study in the University. The applicant must pass examinations in at least fifteen standard high school units.

In August, 1919, candidates who have completed at least four years of high school work may enter the University in accordance with the following provision:

An applicant who holds credentials evidencing the completion of a four-year high school course may enter the University in August, 1919, by passing examinations in subjects aggregating at least six of the fifteen units required for undergraduate standing (same as 45 units by former scale). These examinations must be so distributed as to represent at least three groups of preparatory subjects. The groups of preparatory subjects are: (1) English; (2) mathematics; (3) foreign languages; (4) history; (5) natural science; (6) other subjects in which the University gives entrance examinations. Applicants are warned that a serious deficiency in a single examination is sufficient to prevent admission.

Applications for admission should be made at the office of the Recorder of the Faculties, California Hall, Berkeley, California. Applications may be sent by mail. Information concerning the list of preparatory subjects, matriculation examinations, recommendations, dates for application and other matters is contained in the Circular of the Academic Departments to be obtained, on request, from the Recorder.

SUMMER SESSION COURSES

At present there is opportunity during the Summer Session for students to do systematic work in certain high school subjects including elementary chemistry, physics, mathematics, drawing and foreign languages. Further information will be found in the announcement of the Summer Session, published annually in April, to be obtained from the Dean of the Summer Session, 107 California Hall, Berkeley, California.

FOUR-YEAR COURSE

Beginning with the session of 1917-18, the course of study was changed from three years of thirty-two weeks each to four years of thirty-two week each. The calendar for 1919-20 has been arranged so that the labor conditions at present will be more fully satisfied by making the vacation period correspond to the need for unskilled labor which the students may supply. The early seasons in horticulture and agriculture happily approximate the long vacation periods, so that students who are obliged to devote this time to revenue-producing labor usually have no difficulty in obtaining employment.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information concerning the preparatory subjects, matriculation examinations, admission to advanced standing and the requirements for the Bachelor's Degree refer to the Circular of Information concerning the Academic Departments, copies of which may be obtained from the recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Berkeley, California.

FOREIGN STUDENTS

Students desiring to matriculate in this college from foreign countries will be permitted to substitute satisfactory courses in history, law, language and literature in lieu of similar preliminary requirements offered by high schools accredited to the University of California. A knowledge of English sufficient to comprehend the course of study will be required, in all cases to be determined by the official examiner.

ADMISSION TO ADVANCED GRADES ON CERTIFICATES

The college will receive into the advanced grades of second year and third year only such students as hold certificates of having passed examinations in the studies of the first-year or second-year grades respectively in a school which demands the same or higher preliminary educational requirements and maintains the same curriculum; except that a student who presents satisfactory evidence of graduation from a reputable medical college may be given such advanced standing as his previous training may justify, provided he make up the prescribed subjects in which he may be deficient.

All students who have successfully passed their examinations for advanced standing and have complied with all the rules of the College of Dentistry shall have their reports given or mailed to them within thirty days after such examinations shall have been completed, such reports to be pledges

to any college to whom the holders may apply that the requisite number of terms have been spent in the College of Dentistry, University of California.

THE MASTER'S DEGREE

Bachelors of Art or Sciences of this University who are pursuing regular courses leading to a degree in the College of Dentistry may receive a master's degree (M.A. or M.S.) under the following conditions: (a) The candidate must have finished creditably two years in the curriculum of the professional college.

(b) He must have received credit, in addition to his work for the professional degree, for eight semester units of graduate work, including a thesis, and such graduate work must be approved by the Graduate Council.

EXTRACTS FROM REGULATIONS

The following are the regulations governing undergraduate attendance, except such as are given elsewhere in this announcement.

ATTENDANCE

Eighty per cent of attendance will be required in all lecture and laboratory courses, as well as in general attendance.

Every student is required to attend all his class exercises and to satisfy the instructor in each of his courses of study, in such a way as the instructor may determine, that he is performing the work of the course in a systematic manner.

Any instructor, with the approval of the Dean, may at any time exclude from his course any student who, in his judgment, has neglected the work of the course. Any student thus excluded shall be recorded as having failed in the course of study from which he is excluded, unless the faculty shall otherwise determine.

EXAMINATIONS

No student will be excused from assigned examinations.

No book, manuscript or other source of information shall be brought into any examination room, except by the explicit order of the examiner. Nor shall any student, in the course of an examination, have any communication with another student for any reason whatever.

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.

GRADES OF SCHOLARSHIP

The results of examinations, together with term work when a record of the latter is kept, will be ranked and reported to the Recorder in five grades. The first grade denotes marked excellence. The second grade indicates that the student's work has been thoroughly satisfactory. The third grade denotes a pass. Courses in which students have obtained a fourth grade will not be credited to them, except upon the condition of passing a re-examination. The fifth grade indicates a failure and the necessity of repeating not only the examinations of the course but also the regular work, in accordance with these regulations. At the request of the Surgeon General U. S. Army the reports will be issued on a percentage basis. The report in case of absence from an examination, or of failure to perform any of the allotted tasks in a given course, is incomplete. Work so reported must be made up within a year.

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.

CONDITIONS AND FAILURES

For the removal of conditions, students shall have the privilege of taking the regular mid-year or annual examinations in the subjects in which they are conditioned. Examinations may be held at other times only by special permission of the Academic Senate and on payment of a fee of five dollars.

Any undergraduate student who is reported as having failed in an examination, or who, after being conditioned, does not pass the reexamination 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.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Prolonged leave of absence must be sought by written petition to the Dean, and the petition must specify the length of time (not more than a year) and the reason for which the leave is desired. An indefinite leave of absence will in no case be granted.