1933-1934 Academic Catalog

GENERAL INFORMATION GRADING AND CREDITS 21 In all courses students are graded according to their scholarship by the use of the following symbols: A, denoting excellent; B, denoting good; C, denoting fair; D, denoting pass– ing; and F, denoting failed. The comparative merit of tests, examinations and all other exercises, as well as the final stand– ing of the student in any course, are indicated by the use of the same symbols. A equals 93-100; B equals 85-92; C equals 78- 84; D equals 70-77. Semester-Hour.-In all of the courses, credit is counted by the "semester-hour." A "credit" or "semester-hour" is one :recitation, lecture, or laboratory period a week for one semester. A student completing the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifteen semester– hours, and if such work is continued for a full year and satisfactorily completed, he receives credit for thirty semester– hours which is considered full work for one year. A semester is eighteen weeks or one-half of the academic or collegiate year of nine months. Required Merit Points.-In every course in the collegiate department as nrnny merit points are required for graduation as credits or semester-hours. For grade excellent, three points for each credit are awarded; for grade good, two points; for grade fair, one point; for grade passing, no points. rl he maximum number of points that can be secured by a student graduating in a course which required, for example, 120 credits is 360; the minimum 120. It is evident that an aver– age grade of fair is necessary for graduation. Students who b-y reason of grade of passing fall behind in the required number of points, are ineligible for graduation. By the use of points a student my readily determine the quality of progress he is making in his course. Commencement Honors.-A student who wins eighty per cent of the maximum number of merit points obtainable in his course will be graduated cum laude, "with praise". one who wins ninety per cent of the maximum number obtainable in his course, will be graduated magna cum laude, "with great praise"; and one who wins the maximum number obtainable in his course, will be graduated summa cum laude, "with the highest - praise." The maximum number of merit points obtainable in any course is three times the number of credits or semester– hours required for gradation in that course. Honor Society.-In 1920 an honor society, called the Cedarville College Crown Club, was established, to which members are elected by the faculty on the basis of excellence in scholarship. (1) A Junior or Senior who for two semesters, not necessarily consecutive, has ac<iuired a grade of A in all of his studies tnay be elected to membership in this society. (2) or