1942-1943 Academic Catalog

u GENERAL INFORMATION Seme ter-Hour.-In all of the courses, credit is counted by the " emestPr-hour." A "credit" or "semester-hour" is one recitation, lec– ture, or laboratory period a week for one semester. A student com– pleting the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifteen semester-hours, and if such work i 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 on-half of the academic or collegiate year of nine months. Required Merit Points.-In every course in the collegiate depart– ment as many 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. The 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 is 120. It is evident that an average grade of fair is necessary for graduation. Students who by reason of grade of passing fall behind in the required number of points, are ineligible for grad– uation. By the use of points a student may readily determine the quality of progress he is making in bis 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 maxi– mum 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 graduation in that course. Honor Society.-ln 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 acquired a grade of A in all of his studies may be elected to mem– bership in this society. (2) One who in four semesters has obtained not more than one grade of B in each semester, all other grades be– ing A, may be elected to membership. (3) A student may be elected to membership upon graduation after a full four-years' course, pro– vided he has no grade below B and three-fourths of his grades are A. (4) Students who have taken part of their college course in other in– stitutions are eligible to the society by either of the first two standards given above, but not by the third.