Marist School - Guidon Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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IV. DISCIPLINE The College gives each professor disciplinary authority everywhere in the precincts. Dis- obedience and disrespect to him are con- sidered as serious as though shown to the President personally. Requests for exemptions and excuses of all kinds-which should be rare-are not even noticed unless made by the parents and in writing. The College requires that all such communications, both excuses for absence, tardiness or neglect of home-work, and requests for exemption from recitations or any College exercise, should be made to the Vice-Presi- dent and not to the several professors, and should contain, if possible, some acceptable reason. The College does not al- low a boy to leave the premises during school hours without permission from the Vice-President. All other permissions must be obtained directly from the member of the Faculty actually in charge. 1. Its Mean- ing and Scope. Ordinary faults, such as unruly behaviour, 2. Punish- breach of silence, neglect of lessons or exer- ments. elses, tardy arrival, etc., are ptnnshed by de- tention after school hours, or some like pen- alty, while immorality of any kind, serious insubordination to any professor, or incorrigible laziness is visited' by expul- sion shoul-d the Faculty so decide. liiiht V. EXPENSES The College year is divided into two unequal 1. Tuition. terms, the lirst ending with Christmas, the other, longer, closing about the lirst week of June. The tuition fee is 2540.00 for the first term and 3550.00 for the secondg to be paid the second month of each term. No pupil will be allowed back unless he has paid in full the tuition of the preceding term. No deduction is ever made in case of exemption, temporary or permanent, from military or gymnastic training. There are no extras and therefore no deductions. The charge of 35.00 in the classes of physics, for the use of physical and chemical apparatus is not looked upon as an extra. Though formerly only the high-school pupils 2. Uniforms- were obliged to have the College uniformg Cost of. now, beginning with September 1910, all pupils are required to have two uniformsg a dress uniform and a service uniform. The dress uniform costs about S17.00, the service uni- form, about 38.00. Students must be in uniform whenever in attendance. 3 Dama es All injury to College property will be re- g paired at the expense of the damager. iii! VI. THE STUDIES Marist College comprises three departments, each with its special aim, means and methods. They are: 1. The College Department ClVIarist College, properj. Page 13. 2. The High-School Department. Page 17. 3. The Preparatory Department. Page 22. 12

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The disparity between the marks in the monthly report, which are for daily recitations and those for eonipetitions CSee page 11, No. 31 or examinations CSCC page 11, 2nd para- graphj is explicahle. The daily lessons are answered orally and are fresh in the memory, besides being brief: wltile the questions in competitions on matters seen some time previous and already blurred by fresher knowledge, are to be answered in writing and are consequently more closely noted. A further point to he observed is that sometimes a boy receives very good marks for application and rather poor marks for recitations or homework, W'illiugness and success are broadly difl'erent things. Monthly reports are not sent out for December and May, their place being taken in those months hy notilication of the examination results. ' The reports are marle for and to the parents. Thev should be carefully scrutinized and, if necessary, discussed ivith the Vice-President. They should be returned to the Vice-l resi- dent within the week of issue. III. EXAMINATIONS The litness of an applicant for the work of l. Entrance any class is not determined by his grading in Examina- the school he previously attended: it is ascer- tion. tained by written examinations. The year's work in any class calls for specilic knowl- edge on which to build and is impossible without this knowl- edge. lf, however, a boy proves delicient in one subject only, he may be allowed a brief time in which to overcome his de- liciency. The rule is inflexible that before promotion 2. Term must come examination. Neither ahsence nor Examina- sickness excuses. A boy must obtain a pass tions. average in each of the main subjects. Should he fail within ten poittts to reach any of these farm averages, he is allowed as a favor to stand an oral ex- amination in the lmranches of that subject, to see if he can raise his average to the required ligure. He is said to be conditioned in that subject. Should he succeed the second time he is counted as having passed. There are two of these general written examinations, one at the close of each term, in December and in June. The re- sults of the former are averaged with those of the latter, in order to decide promotion. A useful educational means is the competi- , m '- .... . . 3 C0 pen tion or private written examination, given at tions a . . . Monthlnd the will of each professor,on special portions of Examhfai the programme recently covered. lt tests not tions so much suFhciency of knowledge., as excel- lence, and is of great advantage in securing a partial revision and stunming up of work done. The results are proclaimed and kept for Iixing, together with the daily recitations and homework notes, both monthly standing and the class prize. Of a somewhat clififerent character is the monthly competi- tion, or examination, which is designed to make sure of the ground gone overi during the preceding month, both as to amount and thoroughness. This is a test of the class as well as the individual boy. It also counts in determining a boy's standing and promotion. While tl1e principle of prize-giving is unas- 4. Prizes. sailable, its abuse, often made to gratify par- ents, is absurd. To multiply prizes or to cheapen them is to destroy 'their significance. I . 11

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