1952-1953 Academic Catalog

14 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE Commencement. Commencement exercises crown the school year. The period begins with the Alumni Banquet, continues with the Bacca, laureate Service on the last Sunday evening, and concludes with the Commencement exercises. On Commencement morning the college awards degrees to graduating seniors and the distinguished persons whom it has chosen to honor, welcomes to membership in the Crown Club such upperclass students as have won that coveted distinction, and listens with respect to whatever prominent speaker has been chosen to deliver the commencement address. SESSIONS SEMESTER PLAN THE REGULAR school year consists of two semesters of seventeen weeks each, extending from September to the end of May. Credits are earned in terms of semester hours. A semester hour is one recitation, lecture, or laboratory period a week for one semester. As an illustration, a student completing the work required in fifteen such periods a week for one semester receives credit for fifteen semester hours. SUMMER SCHOOL Two sessions of summer school are offered. Each runs five weeks, six days each week. The normal load for each session is six semester hours or a total of twelve hours for both sessions. Students with an accumulative point average of 2.00 or better may register for 7 hours each session; those with 2.50 may register for 8 hours. Summer school is designed for: 1. Teachers who need additional credit for meeting graduation or certification requirements. 2. Students who are on an accelerated program. Teachers planning to attend summer sessions should write the Di, rector of Summer School requesting information concerning courses of, fered. Early applicants are requested to submit a list of courses they require. EVENING CLASSES Teachers and others who can not attend the day classes at Cedar, ville College may benefit from the evening classes arranged each se, mester at the College and in surrounding communities. The courses of, fered and the locations in which classes are held are determined by the demand. Those interested are advised to write the Registrar by Sep, tember 5 concerning the first semester, or January 10 for the second semester. CORRESPONDENCE AND EXTENSION COURSES Cedarville College offers no courses by correspondence. Student teaching in the elementary program may be offered to teachers in service who have attended Cedarville previously. Requests for student teaching by extension should be addressed to the Director of Elementary Education.