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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

Notice to Patrons of the University

Notice to Patrons of the University.

The patrons of the University will please note the following explanations and suggestions:
1.It is not found practicable to send out reports oftener than at the close of each semester, in February and in June. But the Professors in charge of the students keep, carefully, a daily record, and the Secretary of the Faculty keeps a personal account with each student, from all of which the semester reports are made up. At any time, if friends specially request it, the standing of any particular student will be promptly furnished by the Secretary of the Faculty. In European universities only post-graduates are admitted to the classes, and hence the absence of the marking and reporting system there affords no criterion of our American universities where we have an academic department and under-graduate students.
2.In marking and grading, a scale of ten (or one hundred) is used for simplicity and convenience by the entire Faculty, and when the figures are translated into ordinary language they have about the following meaning: 100 is perfect; 90 excellent; 80 very good; 70 good; 60 barely passable; below 60 means that a student is so deficient or imperfect as to be put back, or as not to be allowed to go ahead to more advanced studies. Conduct is also graded on the scale of 100. every student is, on entering, credited with 100 as perfect, and all deductions from this ideal standard are caused by demerits. Each unexcused absence from University duty counts two demerits, and misconduct is demerited according to its aggravation.
3.Students are graded, on deportment, by the scale of figures and adjectives given in the preceding paragraph.page 135
4.It is deemed very important for parents and guardians to understand that, not including clothing nor railroad fares, the entire expense of a student here for the two semesters, or entire college year, should fall within two hundred dollars. If a student spends more than that amount, he should be called strictly to account, as the probability is that his associations or habits are not what they should be. The fact is, it would be for the interest of the University and of the State, that students who propose to spend more than the above amount should go elsewhere. On page 139 of this catalogue, a student, who has had several years' experience, gives the expense of living in one of the clubs, and makes in that connection this statement: "We know the expenses of several of our most studious members to have been no more than one hundred and fifty dollars for the last year, including all expenses, excepting neither clothing nor railroad fare. There are many cases where students succeed on less, but economy itself would dictate the above amount." The clubs are as genteel and comfortable as any plain private families. There is probably no institution in our country where equal advantages can be enjoyed at less cost. Unnecessary expenditure does not add to the respectability of any student, and it certainly does imperil his character and scholarship. There is nothing more pernicious to our youth than habits or indulgence of extravagance.