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Show PAGE 22 WEBER ACADEMY Graduation. Students completing any of the four-year courses will be given diplomas; pupils will be given certificates on completion of the two-year shorthand or bookkeeping courses. Students completing the two-year courses may take part in the commencement exercises, but are not permitted to share in the Senior class exercises nor to wear the official graduating pin. A candidate for graduation from the High School course may be presented with a High School diploma on the earning of sixteen units of credit; three in English, one in mathematics, two in history, two in science or economics, and eight consistent electives. If a student has completed fifteen units of any course with an average grade of 85 per cent, he may be graduated, provided the unit not completed does not include English or the professional subjects for which the course stands. Graduation requires passing grades in all courses in theology for which a pupil has been registered. A diploma will be denied a student of defective character or who is in the habit of frequenting pool halls, or of using tobacco or intoxicating liquor. No student will receive credit toward graduation in any study in which percentage of excellence falls below 70; 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 the requirements made of the class in which they are finally graduated. Credit is given for work done in other high schools, but at least four units of work must be done in this school. Not more than five units of work in any one year will be accepted toward graduation. Pupils' grades are based on attendance, class recitation, and WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 23 examinations, and are recorded on the books of the school and on reports to the parents by means of the marks A, B, C, D, Inc., and E. A represents about 95 per cent. B represents about 85 per cent. C represents about 75 per cent. D represents about 65 per cent. (condition.) "Inc" represents "incomplete." E represents failure. A mark of "D" designates work of inferior quality. At the discretion of the teacher a pupil having such a grade may be required to remove it (1) by improving the quality of his subsequent work (2) by doing an additional amount of work, or by both. A mark of "Inc" designates work insufficient in amount. The teacher may require the pupil to remove it by doing make-up work. Marks of "D" and "Inc" for any month should be removed during the next month; semester marks of "D" and "Inc" during the next semester. Subsequent grades may be withheld by the teacher until such "D" and "Inc" marks are removed. Semester marks of D" and "Inc" not removed during the time here specified shall be counted as equivalent to "E." A monthly mark of "E" may be removed by repeating as much work as the teacher may designate. A semester mark "E" cannot be removed. A unit represents a year's study in any subject reciting five times a week throughout the year. Two laboratory periods are counted as one recitation period. |