Rules of Attendance
With the opening of the college
year, the student body was agreeably
surprised to be confronted by a new
set of rules, which ,are more liberal
and more fair to everybody than
any that have ever been enforced at
this institution. As it is now, each
student is expected to attend every
exercise for which he is scheduled.
He may make his own cut rules,
but if they conflict with his stand
ing in any subject he must drop that
subject, and thereby suffer for his
mistakes.
Now it is up to each and every
student of this institution to show
that he can be self-governing. The
opportunity for which State men
have been striving has been offered,
and should be grasped.
• These rules favor the student's
much more than the ones to which
we have been accustomed and their
success or failure depends wholly
upon the way each student tries to
carry them out. It is to be hoped
that they will be successful, for the
older men at least remember how
burdensome the old system was.
RULES OF ATTENDANCE 1906-07
1 Each student is expected to at
tend every exercise for which he is
scheduled. If a student is obliged
to be absent he is expected to ex
plain promptly to his Instructor the
reason.
. 2 (a) All absences from assigned
exercises are reported to the Reg-
(b) Failure to be in one's proper,
place at the ringing of the second
bell for any exercise, unless satis
factorily explained at that time, is
treated as an absence.
3 A student whose irregularity in
attendance causes him, in the judg
ment of the Instructor, to become
deficient in any subject, will, after
due warning, be excluded therefrom
by the instructor, and his name re
ported to the Registrar and to the
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
Dean of the School in which he is
enrolled.
4 (a) When the absences of any
student in any subject amount to
one-fourth of the whole number of
exercises required therein in one
semester (exclusive of research
days), he is thereby excluded from
that subject.
(b) A student who absents hin
self from any required Summer
School work is thereby excluded
from the subject, unless his absence
is satisfactorily explained at the
time.
5 A student, excluded from a sub
ject on account of absences, may be
reinstated by the Registrar only
upon the recommendation of the In
structor in charge, the Head of the
Department, and the Dean of the
School in which the subject be
longs.
6 A student excluded under rules
3 and 4 from work aggregating eight
periods per week, is thereby
dropped from the College, and can
be reinstated only by the Council of
Administration.
7 A student who has been rein
stated, under rule 5 or 6 in any sub
ject, must make up all omitted work
in a manner satisfactory to the In
structor.
8 Absences from Military Drill
will be dealt with in accordance with
the rules of the Military Depart
ment.
9 (a) At the middle and end of
each semester a student's record
must show credits for attendance on
morning Chapel for at least two
thirds of the total number of ex
ercises. Additional credits will be
carried forward to apply on required
attendance in the Senior year.
Failure to comply subjects the stu
dent to immediate suspension from
all College exercises.
( b) Sunday Chapel is reckoned
separately, but is subject to the
same regulations as morning Chapel.
(c) Students residing with their
parents or guardians in or near the
village, may be excused from atten
dance at the College chapel on Sun
days on the presentation to the
Registrar of a written request from
their parents or guardians. This
request must be renewed at the be
ginning of each College year.
10 Any student who absents him
self from a final examination, will
not be allowed to attend any further
College exercises unless excused by
the President.
11 Absences from hours assigned
for tutoring will not be allowed ex
cept by the permission of the Head
of the Department in which the sub
ject belongF.
12 Students are required to be
present at all exercises for which
they are scheduled that occur with
in twenty-four hours of the begin
ning and end of sessions and
semesters and of the Thanksgiving
recess. Absence from four such
exercises during a semester shall
place the student under indefinite
suspension.
Y.M.C.A. Reception
Fully eight hundred persons at
tended the annual reception to new
students given by the Young Men's
Christian Association in the Armory
last Friday evening. Though most
of those present were students, a
considerable number were members
of the Faculty and their * wives, in
structors, and friends of the College.
The program was opened with mu
sic by the college orchestra and the
singing of "Come, Brothers, Let us
Raise the Song." President B. D.
Kunkle, 'O7, of the Association,
then introduced our new Vice-Presi
dent, Dr. Welsh, who presenent his
ideas in a clear, straightforward
manner. He was followed by Coach
Fennell, who talked a litttle on foot
ball, but chiefly on the kind of
characters that men should endeavor
to form in college. After a selec
tion by the orchestra, "Mother"