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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50
Examinations and Graduation
Examinations and Graduation.
There are three examinations in the University:
1. An examination of the new students is held at the beginning of the session, for the purpose of ascertaining their scholarship, and assigning them to the classes for which they may be qualified.
| a. | That before any student (coming to the University for the first time), shall be admitted to any of the academic classes, he shall be examined by the Professor o£ English, and obtain from him a pass card, certifying that he possesses a competent knowledge of English—the word competent being understood to mean such a degree of knowledge as will qualify the pupil to labor profitably and creditably in the class he proposes to enter, it being referred to the several heads of departments to arrange with the head of the English Department the cards of examination which shall pass the pupils to their several classes. |
| b. | That all the students in the academic classes shall undergo, at the close of each year, an examination on the fundamental branches of English, viz.: Practical English grammar, arithmetic and geography; and every student must receive a grade of at least six, according to general rule, before being admitted to examination for the next higher class or for graduation. |
| c. | That the Secretary of the Faculty be instructed to carry out the precisions of these resolutions, in so far as their practical workings are concerned, by directing the students to report to the Professor of English, before having their cards signed by any Professor. |
On the occasion of these examinations, the Faculty generally recommend a full course of study to students whose age and means render such a course advisable*
Special students, in any department, may be admitted without previous examination; but no students are accounted special students unless recognized and entered as such by the Faculty.
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2. An intermediate examination of all the classes, partly oral and partly in writing, is held at the close of the first semester. There is no suspension of exercises, other than for examination between the two semesters of the year, and during the holidays.
3. A general examination of all the classes is held during the ten days preceding commencement, for the purpose of ascertaining the progress of the students, and of deciding what students shall graduate or be promoted to higher classes.