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 IV. 
 REVISED CODE OF COLLEGE LAWS, 
 
 REPORTED 
 
 TO THE CORFORATZOir 
 
 BT THE 
 
 Kmtnetriatte Cotirrnment. 
 
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 %^. LAWS '^ 
 
 OF 
 
 f^i^m^irii ColU^r^ 
 
 FOR THE USE OF 
 
 THE STUDENTS. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : 
 
 UNIVERSITV PRESS, BILLIARD AND METCALF. 
 
 1824. 
 

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 HARVARD COLLEGE, 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 EXECUTIVE AND IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 1. The Executive Government of the College is 
 vested in the President, Professors, Tutors, Librarian, 
 Regent, and Proctors. 
 
 •2. The President, the Professors not exempted by 
 the tenure of their offices, tiie Tutors, and the Librarian, 
 constitute the Immediate Government. 
 
 3. The Immediate Government have authority to 
 make all orders and regulations necessary for carrying 
 into effect their respective powers and duties, and to 
 appoint Committees of their body with power to ad- 
 minister any punishment below suspension. 
 
 4. It is the duty of the Immediate Government to take 
 the general state of the College into frequent consid- 
 eration, and to propose to the Corporation any laws 
 and measures by which, in their judgment, the system 
 of instruction and discipline may be improved. 
 
CHAPTER 11. 
 
 METHODS OF ])ISCIPLINE. 
 
 1. Encouragements and Rewards. 
 
 To encourage good conduct in the members of tha 
 society, and animate them to literary exertion, the fol- 
 lowing system of rewards is established. 
 
 1. The President, consulting with the several officers 
 of government and instruction, will, in the early part 
 of the Sophomore year, present books, provided by 
 the Hopkins fund, to a number of the students of the 
 aforesaid class, who are most distinguished by their 
 application to their studies. 
 
 2. The Corporation will give out subjects for Bow- 
 doin prize dissertations in the English language, and 
 assign to the author or authors of the two best per- 
 formances, a first premium for each, and to the author 
 or authors of the two next best, a second premium for 
 each ; if so many dissertations, of sufficient merit, are of- 
 fered. The first premium is a gold medal of the value of 
 thirty dollars ; the second, a gold medal of the value 
 of twenty dollars. Candidates must subscribe ficti- 
 tious names to their dissertations, and accompany them 
 with sealed letters, having the fictitious names on the 
 outside, and their real names within ; which letters will 
 be burnt unopened, except those of the successful can- 
 didates, whose names will be placed in the records 
 of the Corporation, and of the Immediate Government. 
 
In conformity to the* will of the founder of these 
 prizes, the successful dissertations must be " read in 
 publick by their respective authors, who shall deliver a 
 fair copy of the same, to be lodged in the Library ; such 
 copies to be written on quarto paper of the same size, 
 that such of them, as shall merit it, may be bound to- 
 gether in handsome volumes and be lodged in the library. 
 3. Agreeably to the institution of the '^ Boylsion 
 Prizes for Elocution," on the day after Commence- 
 ment in each year, there will be held in University 
 Hall, or in the Meeting-House at Cambridge, a publick 
 exhibition and trial of the skill and improvement of the 
 Students at the University in elocution. The speak- 
 ers are not to rehearse their own composition ; but to 
 select pieces in prose or verse, from English, Greek, or 
 Latin authors, the selection to be approved by the 
 Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory. The 
 proportion in English, is to be at least two out of three. 
 The competitors must be Graduates of the year, or 
 Undergraduates of one of the two next classes. The 
 President and Fellows of the College will, in each 
 year, select five gentlemen, who have been distinguished 
 for their elocution, either at the Bar, in the Pulpit, or in 
 the Senate, who, with the Corporation, or a major part 
 of them, will judge of the merits of the competitors, 
 and award the prizes. They will assign five prizes ; 
 two first prizes, viz. fifteen dollars, or a gold medal of 
 that value, to each of the two best speakers ; and three 
 second prizes, viz. ten dollars, or a gold medal of that 
 value, to each of the three next best ; provided, that if 
 the judges shall be of opinion that none of the competi- 
 tors have exhibited sufficient skill and improvement to 
 be entitled to the first prizes, they may withhold them. 
 
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 At this exhibition no prompting of the speakers will 
 be allowed ; and a failure of memory in any one, 
 will exclude him from being considered in the assign- 
 ment of the prizes. 
 
 4. In the selection of Students to receive pecuniary 
 favours, such as the College benefits called exhibitions, 
 and the Hollis scholarships, the Corporation will give 
 the preference to those (not otherwise disqualified), 
 who are of good behaviour, and who are recommended 
 by the Immediate Government as excelling in their 
 respective studies. Any open profaneness, or disorder- 
 ly or undutiful behaviour, shall be accounted a disquali- 
 fication for such favours. The Students appointed by 
 the Immediate Government to perform services to 
 which a compensation is annexed, are also to be chosen 
 with a view to literary merit and to moral character. 
 And no one who is a College beneficiary shall remain 
 such any longer, than he shall continue exemplary for 
 sobriety, diligence, and regard to order. 
 
 6. There will be three Exhibitions each year, viz. at 
 each of the semi-annual visits of the Committee of the 
 Overseers, and one in the other term. The refusal 
 of a student to perform the part assigned him in these 
 or any other literary exercises, will be punished as a 
 high offence. 
 
 Every performer shall lodge with the President, one 
 week at least previous to the Exhibition, a fair copy of 
 his performance. At such time as may be fixed by the 
 Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory, each performer 
 shall rehearse his part. 
 
 If any one shall make additions to what is contained 
 in the copy delivered by him to the President or other 
 presiding officer, or shall speak any thing in publick 
 
which he has been directed to omit, he shall suffei 
 punishment according to the aggravation of the offence. 
 
 6. The Students will be examined by a Committee 
 appointed by the Overseers from their own body^ or 
 at large, or in the presence of such Committee, in 
 order to ascertain the proficiency of the several Classes, 
 and of each individual in them, in the whole of their 
 studies. 
 
 To carry this design into effect, it shall be the duty 
 of each Instructer, when a Class has completed a par- 
 ticular branch of study, or finished the study of a par- 
 ticular book, as shall be judged expedient by the Gov- 
 ernment and determined by a rule, to give information 
 of the same to the President, who will appoint a day 
 for the examination of the Class in that study or book, 
 giving notice, at least seven days before, to the Chair- 
 man of the Committee appointed to examine in that 
 branch of study. And the examining Committee will 
 be requested to mark by numbers their estimate of the 
 performance of each Student, which estimate shall be 
 taken into consideration by the Instructer, and have its 
 influence in forming the next Scale of Merit. 
 
 The Committee wmII state generally their opinion of 
 the degree of thoroughness and exactness with which 
 the book, or branch of study, has been learned ; and 
 they will also mention by name, in their report, such 
 Students as have distinguished themselves by the ex- 
 cellence of their performance. 
 
 7. In the months of June and December of each 
 year, a Scale of Merit will be made out, by which the 
 relative rank of each Student in his class shall be as- 
 certained, by adding together the amount allowed him 
 by the several Instructers in all the branches of study 
 
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 ^'fiich he has pursued ; and the amount allowed in 
 each separate branch shall be fixed, by the Instructer 
 in that branch, by a comparison of his own estimate at 
 the recitations and the estimate of the examining Com- 
 mittee in their report. 
 
 In forming the Scale of Merit, one column will be 
 allowed to conduct and deportment, which shall be 
 decided by the united voice, and grounded on the re- 
 cords, of the Immediate Government. 
 
 II. Punishments, 
 
 1. The Governors and Instructers earnestly desire 
 that the Students may be influenced to good conduct 
 and literary exertion by higher motives than the fear of 
 punishment ; but when such motives fail, the Govern- 
 ment will have recourse to friendly caution and warn- 
 ing, fines, solemn admonition, and official notice of 
 delinquency to Parents or Guardians ; and, where the 
 nature and circumstances of the case require it, to sus- 
 pension, dismission, rustication, or expulsion. 
 
 All instances of disorder, or breach of the College 
 laws, or absence from any College diity, or negligent 
 performance of an exercise, are recorded, and formally 
 reported to the Government at stated-times, and when- 
 ever occasion requires. 
 
 Whenever any Student is found delinquent, he is lia- 
 ble to be deprived of any such indulgence as may be 
 granted lo exemplary Students with respect to absence, 
 going out of town, and the like ; to have particular por- 
 tions of study prescribed to him, to be performed during 
 the vacation, or at other times ; and to forfeit all claims to 
 the distinctions and rewards provided for the meritori- 
 ous ; and if he persist in such delinquency, he may be 
 suspended or suffer higher punishment. 
 
2. By suspension for negligence, a Student is sepa- 
 rated from his Class as to those branches of study in 
 which he is deficient, and placed under private in- 
 struction, provided for the purpose, in the town of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Every person so suspended is required to perform 
 exercises with the person or persons under whose care 
 he is placed, at such times, and in such manner, as the 
 Government shall direct ; and he is not permitted to 
 leave the town of Cambridge during the whole lime of 
 his suspension, without special leave for some very ur- 
 gent reason ; the same rules and restrictions being in 
 force in the vacation as in term time. And in no 
 case shall he be restored to good standing, till he shall 
 have given entire satisfaction for at least three months, 
 by orderly conduct, and diligent and faithful applica- 
 tion to his studies. 
 
 It is provided however that a Student, suspended 
 either for negligence or for any violation of the laws, 
 may when the Government shall think it expedient, 
 be removed from the College and the town of Cam- 
 bridge, and placed under the care of a suitable person 
 not connected with the College ; and he shall be subject 
 to restrictions and requisitions similar to those above 
 mentioned, and be required to bring satisfactory tes- 
 timonials of good conduct; and be examined for re- 
 storation. 
 
 3. Dismission is the separation of a Student from 
 the College for a year ; at the end of which, on pro- 
 ducing testimonials of good conduct during the whole 
 time since his dismission, and appearing to be well 
 qualified, he may, at the discretion of the Immediate 
 Government, be restored to the class to which he be- 
 
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 fore belonged. If he fail to produce such testimonialiii, 
 he shall not be admitted to an examination ; and if 
 upon examination he be found unfit to join the class he 
 left, he may be admitted to such other standing as he 
 may be found qualified for. 
 
 4. Rustication is the separation of a Student from 
 all connexion with the College, his removal from it 
 for one, two, or three years, and his final separation from 
 the Class of which he was a member. At the end of 
 the prescribed time, he may be received into the next 
 lower Class, or other Class^ at the discretion of the 
 Government, not more than three below that of which 
 he was a member, upon his producing testimonials of 
 good conduct during the whole time after his rustication, 
 satisfactory to the Immediate Government ; and upon 
 his appearing on examination to be well qualified for 
 the standing to which he is destined. 
 
 6. Expulsion is a final separation from the College. 
 
 6. In all instances of offence against the laws and 
 discipline of the College, or against good morals, to 
 which no specifick penalties are annexed in the laws, the 
 Immediate Government may inflict such of the College 
 punishments as they shall think just and requisite. 
 
 7. Every quarter bill of each student shall be ac- 
 companied by a statement, from the records, of every 
 mark of approbation or distinction he has received in 
 the quarter, of every punishment or censure he has 
 incurred, and of all his absences from exercises, lectures, 
 and public worship ; with any other information, 
 which in the opinion of the Governmant will be use- 
 ful to parents, or guardians; to whom a copy of the 
 Quarter Bill, with the particulars above enumerated 
 will be sent. 
 
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 CHAPTER III, 
 
 ON DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, AND THE OBSERVANCE 
 OF THE lord's DAY. 
 
 1. The Students shall constantly, seasonably, and 
 with due reverence, attend prayers in the Chapel every 
 morning and evening, and publick worship at the assign- 
 ed place on the Lord's day, on the days of the annual 
 publick Fast and Thanksgiving, and of the Dudleian 
 Lecture, and at such other times as they may be 
 required. 
 
 Every Student is required on the Lord's day and the 
 evening preceding, to abstain from visiting and from 
 receiving visits, from unnecessary walking, from us- 
 ing any diversion, and from all behaviour inconsist nt 
 with that sacred season. 
 
 2. Any Student who has been educated in the wor- 
 ship of the Episcopal Church may obtain leave to at- 
 tend the service of that Church in Cambridge, upon his 
 presenting a written request lo that effect to the Im- 
 mediate Government ; from himself, if he be more than 
 twenty-one years of age ; or from his parent or guardi- 
 an, if he be under that age. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 OF THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION, HOURS OF STUDY, 
 AND ATTENDANCE ON LITERARY EXERCISES. 
 
 1. The hours for study are from the end of the half 
 hour next after breakfast till 12 oVJock ; from 2 o'clock 
 P. M. till evening prayers ; and after 8 o'clock P. M. 
 through the first term and to the middle of April in 
 the second term, and after 9 o'clock P. M. during the 
 remainder of the second and through the third term. 
 
 In these hours the Students shall remain in their 
 rooms and not leave them without a sufficient reason ; 
 and shall abstain not only from disorderly noises, as at 
 all times, but from all noise which may cause inter- 
 ruption, such as loud conversation, singing, or playing 
 on a musical instrument, and the like. 
 
 2. The lectures and exercises to be attended and per- 
 formed by the Students, shall be arranged from time to 
 time in the manner most favourable to their progress. 
 The arrangement of the prescribed duties of the Pro- 
 fessors and Tutors, and of the prescribed studies; the 
 times and modes of recitation ; the classification 
 of the Students ; and in general the methods of In- 
 struction, are committed to the Immediate Govern- 
 ment, it being understood that the Corporation shall 
 at their discretion take measures as heretofore, relative 
 to the particulars above named, and that the doings of 
 the Immediate Government thereon shall always be 
 subject to the control of the Corporation. 
 
 3. No Student shall, during term time, attend the 
 Instruction of any person who is not an officer of the 
 
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 College, without special permission from the Immedi- 
 ate Government. 
 
 4. Every literary exercise which a Student fails to 
 perform, whether from absence or any other cause, or 
 which is negligently done, is required to be afterwards 
 performed. Absences and negligences, although the 
 .exercise be afterwards performed, are recorded, and 
 subject the delinquent to censure at the discretion of 
 the Immediate Government. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 OF VACATIONS AND ABSENCE. 
 
 1. There will be three vacations; the first, of four 
 weeks and two days, from Commencement ; the sec- 
 ond, of seven weeks, from the fourth Friday in Decem- 
 ber ; the third;, of two weeks, from the third Friday in 
 May. The Senior Sophisters may retire from College 
 four weeks before Commencement ; nor shall any one 
 continue after that time in Cambridge, without special 
 permission from the Immediate Government. Such, 
 must be subject to all laws enjoining orderly conduct 
 and attendance on devotional exercises. 
 
 2. No Student who is not an inhabitant of the town 
 of Cambridge shall remain in Cambridge during any 
 vacation without leave from the President ; and all 
 
 ' Students remaining in Cambridge during the vacations 
 shall be subject to the laws enjoining orderly conduct, 
 and to those respecting the boarding-houses of the Stu- 
 dents. 
 
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 3. No Student shall be absent from College a night 
 in term time without permission from the President for 
 some urgent reason, or in his absence from such other 
 officer as shall be authorized to act in his place. 
 
 Absence from the town of Cambridge without spe- 
 cial permission for urgent reasons, except at such times 
 as the Immediate Government may authorize by a 
 general regulation, is strictly prohibited. 
 
 4. At the close of each term, where any Student has 
 failed to perform, to the satisfaction of the Instructers, 
 all studies and exercises which have been demanded 
 of him during the term, the same shall be required of 
 him in the vacation ; and, in order to this, he may be 
 required by the Government to remain at College un- 
 til they have been fully performed. 
 
 Also all Students who remain at the College during 
 the vacation and whose parents request it, shall have 
 duties assigned them, and exercises to be performed 
 to some officer appointed for the purpose. 
 
 5. Each Student is required to perform all the ex- 
 ercises of his Class, during his absence from College, 
 whether it be with leave or without : — Provided, how- 
 ever, that in each case, at the request of the Student, 
 the Government may assign those studies to a future 
 vacation, if, in their opinion, the Student may then be 
 able to perform them. 
 
 6. Each Student, obtaining leave of absence for 
 one night or more, shall lodge a certificate thereof with 
 the Regent ; and when any Student shall return after 
 such leave, or after any vacation, he is required to apply 
 to the Regent's freshman, at his room, to enter the time 
 of his return, and see it entered. 
 
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 7. Each Student who shall prolong his absence 
 beyond the time for which he has obtained leave, or 
 shall not return immediately upon the expiration of a 
 vacation, is required to lodge with the Regent's Fresh- 
 man, when he enters his name, a certificate of his ex- 
 cuse for such absence, signed by his parent or guardian, 
 or his physician in case of sickness, or, if he be more 
 than twenty-one years of age, by himself. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 MISDEMEANORS AND CRIMINAL OFFENCES. 
 
 1. For either of the following offences, Students may 
 be punished by any of the college censures, at the 
 discretion of the Immediate Government, viz. 
 
 (1.) Profane language ; intoxication ; falsehood ; 
 gaming; extravagance; dissipation; indecency in lan- 
 guage, dress, or behaviour ; the offering of violence to 
 the person or the chamber of a student ; also violations 
 of the respect due to the instructers and officers of the 
 College. 
 
 (2.) Making or being present at any festive enter- 
 tainment, except at Commencement season, or on Exhi- 
 bition days with the permission of the President ; or 
 going into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge 
 for the purpose of eating or drinking. 
 
 Making noises to the disturbance of the College, 
 or of any of the inhabitants of the town. 
 
 Having any concern in bonfires, fire- works, or 
 illuminations. 
 
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 Being an actor or spectator in any theatrical en- 
 tertainment, or being present at any ball, assembly, or 
 party of pleasure, in term time, without leave from the 
 President, at the request of a parent, guardian, or 
 patron. 
 
 Maying at cards or dice. 
 
 Buying, selling, or bartering books, apparel, fur- 
 niture, or any other property, without leave from the 
 President, or a written permission from a parent or 
 guardian. 
 
 Keeping a gun or pistol, or gunpowder, or firing 
 a gun or pistol. 
 
 (3.) Also, refusing or neglecting to come w^hen 
 sent for by any Officer of the College ; refusing to give 
 evidence when required respecting any violation of the 
 la',^ s, or falsifying therein ; resisting in any way the 
 authority of the College, or associating with one who 
 is under sentence of dismission, rustication, or expul- 
 sion, or with any other person with whom they may 
 be forbidden to associate by the Government. 
 
 2. Whereas offences may be committed in which so 
 many are actors or abetters as to render it inexpedient 
 to punish all concerned, the Immediate Government 
 may select for punishment as many of the offenders as 
 they may judge necessary to secure the end of punish- 
 ment ; due regard being had to the nature of the of- 
 fence, and to the general character and past behaviour 
 of the persons thus selected : Provided, that in any case 
 the government may adopt any principle of selection 
 which may appear necessary for securing the good 
 order of the College. 
 
 Also where acts of disorder or violence are commit- 
 ted by individuals who are screened from detection by 
 
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 their situation, and by the disposition of those around 
 them to withhold evidence, the Immediate Government 
 may select for punishment any who, by withholding 
 evidence and screening the guilty, shall thus appear, to 
 the satisfaction of the Government, to be actors in, or 
 abetters of the crime ; due regard being had, as before, 
 to general character and past behaviour. 
 
 3. Any combination of Students to do an unlawful act, 
 shall subject the offenders to any of the College punish- 
 ments, at the discretion of the Immediate Government. 
 
 4. Whenever the Immediate Government are satis- 
 fied that a Student is not fulfilling the purposes of his 
 residence at the College, and is not likely to fulfil them ; 
 or that he is from aiLy cause an unfit member of the 
 society, it shall be their duty to dismiss him from the 
 College ; it being however provided, that the Govern- 
 ment may, whenever they see fit, acquaint the parent 
 or guardian of such student, with his character and con- 
 duct, and leave it to such parent or guardian to re- 
 move him by his own act. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 t)CCUPATION OF ROOMS. DRESS. EXPENSES AND 
 DEBTS. CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 1. The Students shall statedly reside in the rooms 
 assigned to them. No one shall lodge or board out of 
 the College without leave, nor except at such houses 
 fes the Government approve ; nor shall he suffer any 
 one to lodge at his chamber without leave from one of 
 the government. 
 
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 In all cases of disorder at rooms the occupants shall 
 be responsible. 
 
 When two Students occupy a room, each one 
 shall supply his proportion of furniture and wood, dur- 
 ing the whole time for which the room is assigned, 
 whether he be present or absent. 
 
 % The dress of the Undergraduates is to be as fol- 
 lows : The coat of black mixed,* single-breasted, with 
 a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps ; 
 the waist reaching to the natural waist with lapels of the 
 same length ; three crows feet made of black sdk cord 
 on the lower part of the sleeve of the coat of a Senior, 
 two on that of a Junior, one on that of a Sopho- 
 more : the waistcoat of black mixed or of black, or, 
 when of cotton or linen fabrick, of white, single-breast- 
 ed with a standing collar: the pantaloons of black 
 mixed or of black bombazet, or, when of cotton or lin- 
 en fabrick, of white. The surtout or great coat of black 
 mixed, with not more than two capes. The buttons 
 of the above dress must be flat, covered with the same 
 cloth as that of the garments, not more than eight, nor 
 less than six, on the front of the coat, and four behind. 
 A surtout or outside garment is not to be substituted 
 for the coat. But the Students are permitted to wear 
 black gowns, in which they may appear on all publick 
 occasions. Night gowns of cotton, or linen, or silk 
 fabrick, made in the usual form, or in that of a frock 
 coat, may be worn, except on the Sabbath, on Exhibi- 
 tion, or on other occasions, when an undress would 
 
 * By black mixed (called also Oxford mixed) is understood, black with a 
 mixture of not more than one twentieth, nor less than one twenty-fifth part 
 white. 
 
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 be improper. The neckcloths must be plain black or 
 plain white, the hats of the common form and black, 
 and the shoes and boots black. 
 
 No Student, while in the State of Massachusetts, 
 shall, either in vacation or term time, wear any different 
 dress or ornament from those above named, except that 
 in case of mourning he may add the customary badges. 
 
 3. Some gentleman at Cambridge, not of the Imme- 
 diate Government, shall be appointed by the Corpora- 
 tion, to be Patron of all those Students who are not of 
 this Commonwealth, unless they belong to placi^s 
 within one hundred miles of Cambridge ; and shall have 
 charge of the funds of all such Students. 
 
 The Patron shall have particular instruction, from 
 the authorities of the College, concerning the kind of 
 expenses allowed to be incurred by the Students whose 
 funds are in his hands, and he shall make no disburse- 
 ments and pay no bills inconsistent with such instruc- 
 tions ; and whatever bills he may pay shall contain a 
 distinct specification and charge of every article. 
 
 The Patron shall give a detailed account of the ex- 
 penses incurred by each Student under his care to the 
 Immediate Government, and any of the other authori- 
 ties of the College, when required. 
 
 The parent or guardian of such Student shall be in- 
 formed what are the necessary annual expences includ- 
 ed in the College bills ; and he shall also be informed 
 by the Patron what funds for the support and use of his 
 son or ward must be remitted to him, who is to have 
 the whole control of the same, under the direction of 
 the Instructers of the College. 
 
 No Student, within the provisions of this law, shall 
 be permitted to continue at College unless he shall 
 
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 comply with the laws on this subject ; and every such 
 Student is to be charged in his quarter bill at the rate 
 of six dollars a year^ towards a compensation to the 
 Patron. 
 
 No debt is allowed to be incurred by the Student 
 above described, unless by an order from the Patron. 
 
 The rules of the College in relation to the expendi- 
 tures of Students belonging to this State or to any place 
 within a hundred miles of Cambridge, are to be com- 
 municated to the Students concerned and their parents 
 or guardians, and no such Student is allowed to 
 contract any debt without the order of his parent or 
 guardian. 
 
 4. No Class meeting shall be held without special 
 license from the President, nor for any other purpose 
 or purposes than those expressed in the license, nor at 
 times that shall interfere with any College exercise. 
 Any meetings otherwise held will be punished as un- 
 lawful combinations. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 COMMONS. 
 
 1. Board is provided in Commons at a price not ex- 
 ceeding^ the actual cost ; and as the establishment is in- 
 tended for general benefit, every student is charged 
 two dollars and fifty cents a quarter for steward and 
 commons, whether he board in commons or not. 
 
 2. Any Student wishing to board out of Commons 
 must make application for each quarter, at least a week 
 previous to quarter day. The mode of applying is to 
 
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 lodge with the Tutor of his class a written request, 
 stating the place where he proposes to board, which, 
 in the case of a minor, shall be accompanied by the 
 WTitten consent of his parent, or guardian, or patron. 
 
 3. He must live at a house approved by the Imme- 
 diate Government : and no houses are to be approved 
 as boarding-places but such as conform to the reg- 
 ulations which may be established. 
 
 No one can be put out of Commons but by a note 
 from the President, or one of the Tutors, his own 
 Tutor if in College. Each Student boarding in Com- 
 mons shall, immediately upon coming into town, give 
 notice to the contractor at the kitchen ; and, if any 
 neglect to give such notice, he shall be liable to a charge 
 for board amounting to double the cost of Commons 
 for the whole of the time he shall have been in Com- 
 mons without such notice being given. 
 
 4. All damage done to the utensils in the Hall at 
 any meal shall be charged to the person or persons who 
 did the same or any part of it, if known ; and if it can- 
 not be known who did the damage, the loss shall be 
 assessed, according to the law respecting damages gene- 
 rally, on the Scholars in Commons. 
 
 6. Any violation of order and decorum at Commons, 
 while the blessing is asking, or at any other time, shall 
 subject the offender to punishment at the discretion of 
 the Governixient. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 DAMAGES, REPATUS, AND QUARTER BILLS. 
 
 1. Any Student, who shall damage, destroy, or 
 purloin property belonging to the College, shall make 
 good the same, and may also be assessed to an equal 
 amoimt, to be appropriated to the repairing of general 
 damages; or suffer any of the College punishments, 
 according to the nature and circumstances of the offence. 
 
 If the perpetrator be not discovered, damage when 
 done to any inhabited chamber or study shall be made 
 goml by the occupants; when done in an entry, by aa 
 equal assessment upon those inhabiting the entry ; when 
 done to any public seat, table, or room, by an equal 
 assessment upon those who occupy such seat, table, or 
 room ; and when any other property, belonging to 
 the College, is damaged, or destroyed, or purloined, it 
 shall be made good by all the Students who were in 
 town at the time. 
 
 2. Every Scholar is required, without delay, to dis- 
 charge his quarterly dues, and lawful interest shall be 
 paid upon every bill, from the time it has been due 
 three moiUhs, till it be discharged. And no student 
 shall be permitted to join his class, to occupy his cham- 
 ber, or to continue at College, who fails to pay to the 
 Steward, on or before the second day of every term, 
 each quarter bill due from him to the College, except 
 that which was last made out ; and if the bills be not 
 paid, as required; they shall be put in suit in thirty 
 days. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 1. Each Student of the Senior and Junior classes 
 may borrow from the Library, of such books as are 
 selected for their use, not more than three volumes at a 
 time ; and each Student of the Sophomore and Fresh- 
 man (lasses, not more than two volumes ; at such 
 times and by such rules as may be prescribed by the 
 government. 
 
 No book shall be borrowed from the Library with- 
 out the knowledge and presence of the Librarian or 
 his Assistant. 
 
 All books shall be returned on the Thursday preced- 
 ing the Spring and Winter vacations. Those who re- 
 side in Cambridge during any vacation may borrow 
 the number of books allowed to their Class, on the 
 Thursdays just named, and on the Friday following 
 Commencement. They may, at stated times, exchajige 
 their books, and shall return them on the first regular 
 day for their class to borrow books. 
 
 2. If any member of the Senior or Junior classes wish, 
 for some special purpose, to read or consult any book not 
 allowed to be in the common use of the Students, the 
 Librarian may, if he sees fit, permit him to read or 
 consult such book in the Library, or may lend it to 
 him from the Library. 
 
 No Undergraduate, when in the Library, shall go 
 into any of the Alcoves, or take down any book from 
 the shelves, or remain there to read or consult any 
 book, except by special permission from the Librarian. 
 
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 3. If any Undergraduate shall detain a book beyond 
 the prescribed time, he shall not be allowed to borrow 
 any other book, till he has returned or replaced it. 
 
 4. If any Student deface, injure, or lose any book 
 belonging to the Library, he shall be assessed in double 
 damages, and be liable to such other punishment as 
 the Government shall think reasonable. 
 
 5. Senior Sophisters shall return into the Library 
 all their borrowed books on or before the Friday next 
 preceding the day of their departure from College : and 
 every person shall return all his borrowed books, every 
 year, by the eighth day of August ; and after that 
 day no book shall be taken out of the Library till the 
 Friday after Commencement. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 OF COMMENCEMENT AND ACADEMICAL DEGREES. 
 
 L The Commencement will be on the last Wednes- 
 day in August annually. 
 
 No one shall be admitted to a first degree, who has 
 not attended upon, and satisfactorily performed the 
 course of academical exercises ; nor any one who re- 
 fuses or neglects to perform the part assigned him for 
 Commencement. 
 
 Each performer at Commencement shall deliver a 
 fair copy of his performance to the President or presid- 
 ing officer at such time as shall be prescribed previous 
 to Commencement. 
 
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 If any one shall make additions to what is contained 
 in the copy delivered by him to the President, or other 
 presiding officer, or shall utter any thing in publick 
 which he has been directed to omit, he shall not be 
 suffered to proceed, and shall be liable to lose his 
 degree. 
 
 2. Every Bachelor of Arts, having preserved a good 
 character during the three years subsequent to his tak- 
 ing his degree, shall upon complying with the requisi- 
 tions hereafter stated, be entitled to a degree of Mas- 
 ter of Arts. 
 
 Every Bachelor to whom a part has been assigned 
 for performance at Commencement shall furnish the 
 President with a fair copy of his performance, previously 
 to Commencement day, and if any one shall deliver 
 any thing in publick not approved by the President, 
 he shall not be suffered to proceed; and shall be liable 
 to lose his degree. 
 
 3. Every Candidate for a second degree shall pay ten 
 dollars to the College Steward. 
 
 4. No Scholar shall receive a first or second degree, 
 unless he produce to the President a certificate from 
 the Steward, that he has satisfied his College dues 
 charged in his Quarter Bills, or otherwise charged ac- 
 cording to custom ; and one from the Librarian, that he 
 has returned in good order or replaced all the books he 
 has borrowed from the Library, or made such satisfac- 
 tion as is required by the law respecting the Library. 
 
 6. Every candidate for either degree in Arts, and 
 
 the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and Bachelor 
 
 law, shall attend the public procession on Com- 
 
 rement day, to and from the College. And every 
 
 lidate for a first degree, shall attend in black, or 
 
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 in sQcli dress as is peraiitted to be worn by undergrad- 
 uates. 
 
 6. Persons, who have received a degree in any other 
 University or College, may, upon proper application, 
 be admitted ad eundem, upon payment of five dol- 
 lars to the Steward. But honorary degrees, conferred 
 by the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers, 
 on ciccount of distinguished merit, are free from all 
 charge. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 GRADUATES AND RESIDENT GRADUATES. 
 
 1. Any Master or Bachelor of Arts of good charac- 
 ter may be admitted to the privileges of a Resident 
 Graduate, on giving bond to the Steward, in the sum 
 of one hundred and forty dollars, to pay all College 
 dues. 
 
 2. Graduates, and Students in the Theological and 
 Law Schools, and matriculated Medical Students, 
 living in Cambridge, are admitted to the Lectures and 
 Library of the University. 
 
 3. If any Graduate or professional Student, resid- 
 ing in Cambridge, shall be chargeable with idleness, 
 extravagance, or any vice ; or shall allow disorder ia 
 his room, or fail to show respect to the laws and Gov- 
 ernors of the College, and, after admonition by th^ 
 President, shall not reform, his chamber, if he hr/ 
 one in College, and all his privileges as a Resic^/ 
 Graduate, shall be withdrawn. 
 
 END. 
 
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