NEW RULES CUT SUMMER SCHOOL WORK
By action of the faculty regulations will go into effect with the college year 1929-30 which virtually eliminate summer school work as an accepted part of the requirements for graduation from Dartmouth. The legislation provides, however, for less penalty for overcuts, and a student charged with overcuts may make these up by raising his grades and without being under the necessity of carrying an increased number of hours on his schedule.
A committee of the faculty appointed by President Hopkins consisting of Prof. G. C. Wood, chairman, Prof. J. L. McDonald, and Prof. F. J. A. Neef submitted a motion to the faculty following an extensive investigation into the value of allowing credit for summer school work at Dartmouth, in which the committee has compiled detailed statistics on the summer school problem as it has existed here. The motion of the committee, which was adopted in its entirety by the faculty, follows : "It is moved by the committee that beginning with the college year 1929-1930, the following regulations shall go into effect: 1. That the penalty for overcuts be a loss of one point for each overcut taken.
2. That any senior, junior or sophomore not on probation be allowed to carry the maximum number of eighteen hours in any semester.
3. That credit for work taken in summer schools be granted only by special permission of the Committee on Administration upon recommendation of the department concerned.
These regulations mean that there will be less restriction placed upon classroom attendance than is now the case, since one point only will be deducted for each overcut taken. Better grades also allow for less restriction on attendance. This action of the faculty is also designed to penalize the student who overcuts by requiring him to increase the quality of his work rather than making him carry an extra load of hours, or going to summer school. When the ruling goes into effect very few men will be allowed to go to summer school. Only in exceptional cases will the Committee on Administration grant this permission, and then only when the department concerned has recommended that this be done and has also approved the course and the particular summer school for which the -student has applied.
