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Show 20 WEBER ACADEMY to enter at the beginning of the academic year. The entrance requirements my be satisfied by the presentation of certificates or by examination, as follows: (a) Admission on certificate. Students presenting a certificate of graduation from the eighth grade of the public schools will be admitted without examination to any of the Academic courses. Students beyond public school age who are deficient in some of the studies of the grades will be given special consideration. No student pursuing any of the higher courses shall be permitted to register for more than twenty or fewer than fifteen hours per week, nor shall changes in registration be granted except by special vote of the faculty. (b) Applicants for admission to the Preparatory course must be at least sixteen years of age and should have completed the seventh grade of the public schools. Special arrangements will be made for applicants who are past grade school age, and who have not completed the seventh grade. GRADUATION. Students completing any of the four-year courses will be given diplomas; pupils will be given certificates on the completion of a two-year course or of the Preparatory course, as herein described. By special permission of the faculty a candidate for graduation may be presented with a special High Schol diploma on the earning of fifteen units WEBER ACADEMY 21 of credit; three in English, two in mathematics, one in history and nine consistent electives that represent high school work of approved quality. For this diploma maximum cerdits are set as follows: Drawing and Art, 1 unit; Music, 1; Bookkeeping, 1; Oral Expression, 1; Agriculture, 2; Domestic Science and Domestic Art, 2; Manual Training and Mechanic Arts, 2. No credit is allowed for Penmanship, Arithmetic, Type-writing, Stenography, Physical Education, or for any work done outside of the class room and laboratory. By a rule of the General Church Board of Education, a student may be graduated if he has completed fifteen units of any course, provided the unit not completed does not include English or the professional subjects for which the course stands. The standing of students in studies pursued is determined from the daily records of recitations, re-views, and final examinations. No student will receive credit toward graduation in any study in which percentage of excellence falls below 60; nor shall any student be graduated who does not attain an average of 75 per cent in all studies included in the course. Students who do not graduate with the class in which they enter will be held to all the requirements made of the class with which they finally graduate. Since changes may be necessary from year to year, students who register for any course will be permitted to graduate in the course as laid out in the year in which they register. |