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(b.) At the regular examination of the same class a year from the time when the deficiency was incurred.

(c.) If the deficiency be in a Junior or Senior study, either at one of the above-mentioned times, or at a special examination to be held in each study at the time scheduled for the first monthly special examination in that study after the opening of the term in January of the Senior year.

A student having a deficiency in a Freshman study not made up by the close of the period of special examinations in September preceding his Junior year, and a student having a deficiency in a Sophomore study not made up by the close of the period of special examinations preceding his Senior year, shall be required to take such study over again with the class, or, in the case of an elective study, to take another one in its place.

The last opportunity to make up deficiencies occurring later than the beginning of the Junior year is at the special examination period mentioned above except that Seniors failing to pass an examination in May may be given one special examination during the examination period in May. Furthermore a student excused from a December examination of the Senior year may take such examination in the following May period, if he prefers

Only those who have been excused from the regular examination may take another for a grade. All others take it merely to pass.

The order of examinations for the removal of conditions will be:

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ATHLETICS.

No student will be allowed to take part in athletic games, contests, etc., entailing absence from the University, whose parent or guardian objects to such participation.

Students who represent the University on athletic teams or musical clubs, or as representatives of the Literary Societies, marshals, etc., must have passed on at least si★ hours work of the previous term.

Students who represent the University must be carrying at least twelve hours of work and must be not neglectful of the work.

Students leaving the University in a representative capacity, and those who go with them, must give pledges that they will not take intoxicating drinks nor indulge in gambling during their absence.

Students are not allowed to attend match games of ball played outside the State, except members of the teams, managers, or substitutes.

Students are allowed to attend match games in the State provided they can go and return the same day the game is played.

The manager of each athletic team shall submit to the President and the Committee on Athletics of the Faculty a schedule of all games before positive engagements are made.

FRATERNITIES.

Academic students may join fraternities after registration in their Sophomore year. Fraternity men are not allowed to pledge Freshmen to join fraternities.

GRADUATION.

Each Senior will be officially informed by the Registrar in September of all deficiencies standing against him. These deficiencies must be made up by the close of the special examination period in January and February. Every member of the Senior Class is required to write a thesis, or an oration, for graduation. Those electing theses must announce their subjects by Feb. 1st to the Dean of the Academic Faculty, who will report

them to the Professors in the departments concerned. On May 2d the theses shall be read before the Professors, subject to criticism and correction. The corrected and approved theses must be handed to the Registrar in type-written form on or before May 15th.

The number of orations is limited to four. The candidates must be members of the academic department, and must announce their subjects to the Dean of the Academic Faculty by Feb. 1st. The orations shall be delivered in private before a committee of the faculty on May 1st, who shall decide the relative merits of the orations. The four successful candidates are known as the Commencement Orators of the Senior Class.

Candidates for more than one degree shall not offer the same elective in two courses, nor a required study in one course as an elective in another. Students entering in advance of their course and desiring to compete for honors, must stand for grade all examinations required in their course previous to the point of entering.

CERTIFICATES.

A certificate is granted to a student who has completed, in any department, all work required for a degree together with other elective work in the same department. (See under the several departments of instruction.)

CONDUCT.

By order of the Board of Trustees the Faculty is directed to dismiss from the University any student who is known to engage in drinking intoxicating liquors, gambling, hazing in any form, or to be guilty of dissolute conduct.

Students persistently neglectful of duty, or addicted to boisterous conduct or rowdyism, may be requested to leave the University.

THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

FACULTY.

FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., PRESIDENT.

JAMES CAMERON MACRAE, LL.D., Dean and Professor of Common and Statute Law and Equity.

THOMAS RUFFIN, D.C.L., Associate Professor of Law and Equity. KEMP PLUMMER BATTLE, LL.D., Professor of Constitutional History and Internation I Law.

CHARLES LEE RAPER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Economics and History.

CHARLES STAPLES MANGUM, A.B., M.D., Lecturer on Medico-Legal Jurisprudence.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

The Law Department provides three courses of study, each extending over a period of one college year. Instruction is given by means of textbooks, the study of leading cases, and moot courts. Special lectures are given by resident instructors and by members of the bar upon subjects of interest to the students.

Professor MACRAE and Associate Professor RUFFIN.

1. Elementary course in first principles and plain rules of business, contract and property law. Robinson's Elementary Law. Spencer's Commercial Law. Three hours a week.

For Students Intending to Apply for License.

FIRST YEAR.

Professor MACRAE and Associate Professor RUFFIN.

2. Ewell's Essentials. This covers the four books of Blackstone, em

bracing the subjects of Domestic Relations, (Manning's Commentaries,) Real and Personal Property Law, Pleading and Practice and Criminal Law, Clark on Contracts, Bigelow on Torts. Junior Class.

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3. Greenleaf on Evidence, with the Code Chapter on Evidence. pham's Equity. Clark on Corporations. Schouler on Executors, with the Code chapters on Widows, Wills and Testaments. Descent and Executors and Administrators. The Code of North Carolina, including Clark's Code of Civil Procedure. The Constitutions of the United States and of North Carolina. Sharswood's Legal Ethics. Senior Class.

The above includes the course prescribed by the Supreme Court of
North Carolina to be read by candidates for license to practice law.

SECOND YEAR.

Professor MACRAE and Associate Professor RUFFIN.

4. Lawson on Bailments. Norton on Notes and Bills. Dillon on Munic

ipal Corporations. Burdick on Sales. Huffcut on Agency.

Richards on Insurance. Clark's Criminal Law. Black's Constitutional Law.

Professor BATTLE.

5. Constitutional History and International Law.

Associate Professor RAPER.

6. Economics.

Required of candidates for the degree of LL.B.

Professor MANGUM.

7. Medico-legal Jurisprudence.

EXAMINATIONS.

Thorough written examinations are held regularly throughout the year on the completion of each subject. A certificate is issued to those students who pass with credit on all subjects embraced in 2 and 3.

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