LD2111 .7 1845 uw>» L A w s ■r '; 5 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RELATIVE TO UNDERGRADUATES. CAMBRIDGE: METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 1845. V LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. CHAPTER I. THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 1. The President, the Professors not ex- empted by the tenure of their offices, and the Tutors, have the immediate care and govern- ment of the Undergraduates, and are denomi- nated the Faculty of the College. 2. The Faculty have authority to make all orders and regulations necessary for carrying into effect their powers and duties. They have cognizance of all offences committed by the Undergraduates, and enforce observance of all the laws and regulations for maintaining disci- pline, and promoting order, virtue, piety, and good learning in the College. 3. They have authority also to license per- sons as teachers of the polite accomplishments and of exercises conducive to health. 4. The Faculty also have authority to regu- late the dress of the Undergraduates, giving seasonable notice to them, and their parents or guardians, of all alterations they may see fit to adopt. 4 MATRICULATION. [Ctl. II. 5. When any Undergraduate is brought be- fore the Faculty for violence or insult offered to any of the officers of the University, the per- sons injured or insulted, unless they be a ma- jority of the Faculty, shall not have a voice, or be present at the meeting, 6. The Proctors shall be chosen for a term not exceeding two years, and shall exercise in their particular districts, and throughout the University, the same inspection and authority as a Tutor. 7. Presents to the officers of the College from any class or individuals in a class are pro- hibited, and all officers are enjoined to decline accepting them. CHAPTER II. MATRICULATION. 1. Every person admitted as a Student shall, on the first day of the term, or as soon after as may be, exhibit to the President a cer- tificate from the Steward, that a bond has been given, and payment made, as required by law. He shall then sign an acknowledgment in the following form : — "I acknowledge, that, having been admitted as a Student of Harvard Col- lege, I am subject to its laws." 2. Persons admitted as Students may join the University on probation ; but shall not be received to full standing until after one term. Ch. III.] STUDENTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR A DEGREE. 5 This time may be prolonged, however, at the discretion of the Faculty, to a period not ex- ceeding a year. If, during the time of his pro- bation, a Student shall fail to manifest such a degree of diligence in study, disposition to good order, and obedience to the laws, as shall be satisfactory to the Faculty ; or if upon any other ground it be deemed by the Faculty not advisa- ble that he should remain at the University, his connection shall cease. 3. No application for the admission of a per- son, thus separated from the University, shall be received till after the interval of a year, and only upon his producing satisfactory testimonials of good conduct during the whole time of his separation. If again accepted upon examina- tion, he shall be put on probation as before ; and if during this second probation he shall be again separated from the University, his separa- tion shall be final. 4. A matriculated Student, separated from the University by any censure, if again accepted upon examination, will be put on probation. CHAPTER III. STUDENTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR A DEGREE. 1. The College is open to persons who are not candidates for a degree, and who desire to study in particular departments only. 1* 6 THE HOURS OF STUDY. [CA. IV. 2. They must bring satisfactory certificates of a good moral character, and possess such previous acquisitions as are required of Stu- dents before admission, so far as respects the studies they propose to pursue ; and must en- gage in such a number of studies as shall, in the judgment of the Faculty, be sufficient rea- sonably to occupy their whole time. 3. They must give bonds, sign the required acknowledgment, attend prayers and public worship, and in general be subject to all the laws of the University in regard to diligence and good conduct. CHAPTER IV. THE HOURS OF STUDY. 1. The hours of study shall be established by the Faculty, from time to time, at their discre- tion. 2. During these hours the Students are re- quired to remain in their rooms, and not leave them without a sufficient reason ; and to ab- stain from all noises, or other interruptions to study. Ch. V.] ABSENCE IN TERM TIME. CHAPTER V. ABSENCE IN TERM TIME. 1. No Student shall be absent from the Col- lege a night in term time without permission from the President, or, in his absence, from the oldest member of the Faculty then in Cam- bridge. 2. After the end of the vacation, and of every absence with leave* no Student will be deemed to have returned until the Monitor's books shall evidence his presence at prayers. 3. Any Student, who shall have received a leave of absence from any other member of the Faculty than the President, shall lodge the same with such officer as shall be designated by the President, previous to his leaving town; with whom or with the President he shall also leave every certificate of excuse for absence, signed by his parent or guardian, or, in case of sickness, by his physician, or, if he be more than twenty- one years of age, by himself. 4. Meritorious Students, whose circumstances require it, may, at the discretion of the Faculty, be absent for a limited time, for the purpose of keeping schools ; the studies and exercises of their Class during the time of their absence being rendered by them according to the rules the Faculty may establish. 8 DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. [Ch. VI. CHAPTER VI. THE LORD'S DAY AND DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. 1. The Students shall constantly, seasonably, and with due reverence, attend prayers in the Chapel morning and evening, and public wor- ship at the assigned place on the Lord's day, on the days of the annual public Fast and of the Dudleian Lecture, and at such other times as they may be required. 2. Every Student is required, on the Lord's day, to abstain from all behaviour inconsistent with that sacred season. 3. There shall be kept a bill of attendance on daily prayers, and a bill of attendance on public worship, by Monitors appointed for that purpose. 4. The Faculty will from time to time regu- late the mode of receiving excuses, and of granting leave of absence from daily prayers and public worship ; and will give due notice to the Students of such regulations as they may adopt. 5. Any Student may attend, on the Lord's day, the public service of any denomination of Christians having a place of public worship in the vicinity of the University, on the request, in writing, of such Student, if he be of full age, or on a like request, in writing, by his parent or guardian, if he be a minor, stating that such worship is that in which he has been educated, Ch. VII.] ROOMS AND THEIR OCCUPATION. 9 or which, from conscientious motives, he is desir- ous to attend. Satisfactory evidence will, from time to time, be required, that he actually at- tends such stated religious worship. CHAPTER VII. ROOMS AND THEIR OCCUPATION. 1. The Faculty will assign the rooms in the College, giving notice thereof in all cases to the Steward. 2. Students shall statedly reside in the rooms assigned to them. No Student shall change his room without leave of the Faculty. No Student shall suffer any one to lodge at his room without leave from one of the Faculty. 3. In all cases of disorder in any room, the occupants shall be responsible. 4. When two Students occupy a room, each shall supply his proportion of furniture and fuel, during the whole time for which the room is assigned, whether he be present or ab- sent. 5. No Student shall lodge or board out of the College, except at such houses as are ap- proved by the Faculty ; and no house will be so approved, except such as conform to the regulations the Faculty may establish. 6. Every Student lodging or boarding out of Commons shall leave with the President the name of the family, or place, where he lodges 10 DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS, &C. [_Ch. VIII. or boards. On every change of place of resi- dence or of boarding, he shall give a like no- tice. CHAPTER VIII. DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS OR PROPERTY OF THE UNIVERSITY. 1. Any Student, who shall damage, destroy, or purloin property belonging to the University, shall make good the same ; and he may also be assessed, at the discretion of the Faculty, an amount not exceeding threefold the actual damage done, to be appropriated to reducing the general charge for damages on the Students at large; or he may suffer any of the statutory punishments, according to the nature and cir- cumstances of the offence. 2. If the perpetrator be not discovered, dam- age, when done to any inhabited room or study, shall be made good by the occupants ; when done to an entry, by an 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 University, is damaged, or de- stroyed, or purloined, it shall be made good by all the Students who were in the town at the time. Ch. IX.] VACATIONS. 11 CHAPTER IX. TERMS AND VACATIONS. 1 . There shall be two terms and two vaca- tions in each year. 2. The first term will commence on the Fri- day next succeeding Commencement, and con- tinue twenty weeks. 3. The first vacation will commence at the end of the first term, and continue six weeks. 4. The second term will commence at the end of the first vacation, and continue twenty weeks. 5. The second vacation will commence at the end of the second term, and continue until the Friday after Commencement. 6. On the Fridays on which the vacations begin, there will be the usual morning exercise. On the Fridays on which the vacations end, there will be no exercise ; but the Students will attend at evening prayers on those days, and the regular exercises will begin on the fol- lowing morning. 7. No Student, who is not an inhabitant of the town of Cambridge, shall remain in Cam- bridge during any vacation without leave from the Faculty ; and all Students remaining in Cambridge during the vacations shall be sub- ject to the laws enjoining orderly conduct, and to those respecting the boarding-houses of the Students. 12 COMMONS. [Ch* X. CHAPTER X. COMMONS. 1. Students, who board in Commons, shall be allowed to leave them only by a note from the. President, or, in case of his absence, from one of the Tutors. 2. No Student shall be allowed to leave Com- mons, unless it be for more than one day. 3. Each Student boarding in Commons shall, immediately upon coming into town, give no- tice to the contractor ; and, if any one neglect to give such notice, he shall be liable to a charge for board, amounting to double the cost of Com- mons for the whole of the time he shall have been in Commons 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 be not known who did the damage, the loss shall be borne by the contract- or for Commons. 5. Any violation of order and decorum at Commons shall subject the offender to punish- ment at the discretion of the Faculty. 6. Every Student, having his name in Com- mons after nine o'clock on the Monday next preceding any vacation, shall be charged with board in Commons to the end of the term. Ch. XI.] ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. 13 CHAPTER XL ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. The following rewards and encouragements for literary exertions and good conduct have been established by the liberality of distinguish- ed benefactors of the University. 1. The Hopkins Fund. The President, consulting with the Profes- sors and Tutors, will, in the early part of each year, present books, provided by the Hopkins Fund, to such Students of the Sophomore Class as shall be most distinguished for their applica- tion to their studies. 2. The Bowdoin Prize Fund. The Corporation will annually give out sub- jects for dissertations in the English language, conformably to the will of the Hon. James Bow- doin, and offer premiums,* according to the * The course at present pursued by the Corporation in execut- ing this trust is, to offer the following premiums, viz. : — One prize of fifty dollars for the best dissertation by a Grad- uate. Two prizes, one of forty dollars and one of thirty, for the best and the second best dissertations by members of the Senior Class. Two prizes, one of forty dollars and one of thirty, for the best and the second best dissertations by members of the Junior Class. It is at the election of the successful candidates to have a gold medal of equal value with the prize awarded. And it is required that candidates should affix fictitious names to their dissertations, and accompany them with a sealed letter, having the fictitious name on the outside, and the real name within* 2 14 ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. \_Ch. XI. terms of that will, "for the advancement of use- ful and polite literature among the residents, as well Graduates as Undergraduates, of the University, in such way and manner as shall be best adapted to excite a spirit of emulation among such residents. The performances en- titled to such premiums to be read in public 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 together in handsome volumes, and be lodged in the Library." 3. The Boy 1st on Prize Fund. Agreeably to the institution of the "Boyl- ston Prizes for Elocution," on the day after Commencement in each year there will be held in University Hall, or in the Meeting-house in Cambridge, a public exhibition and trial of the skill and improvement of the Students of the University in elocution. The speakers are not to rehearse their own composition ; but to se- lect pieces in prose or verse, from English, Greek, or Latin authors, the selections to be approved by the Boylston Professor of Rheto- ric and Oratory, The proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. The competi- tors must be Graduates of the year, or Un- dergraduates of one of the two next classes. The Corporation will, each year, select five gen- These letters are all burnt unopened, except those of the suc- cessful candidates, whose names are placed on the records of the Corporation. Ch. XI.] ENCOURAGEMENTS AND REWARDS. 15 tlemen 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, namely, fifteen dollars or a gold medal of that value to each of the two best speakers, and three second prizes, namely, 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 com- petitors have exhibited sufficient skill and im- provement to be entitled to the first prizes, they may withhold them- 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 assignment of the prizes. 4. Hollis Scholarships. In the selection of Students to receive pe- cuniary favors, such as 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 Faculty as excelling in their studies. 5. College Benefits. In the appointment of Students by the Facul- ty to perform services to which a compensation is annexed, regard will always be had to literary merit and to moral character. No one, who is a College beneficiary, shall remain such any longer than he shall continue 16 PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. [Ch. XII. exemplary for sobriety, diligence, and orderly conduct. 6. Exhibitions. There will be three exhibitions in each year, namely, one at each of the semiannual visits of the committee of the Overseers, and one about the end of the last term. The exercises at these exhibitions, as well as at Commence- ment, shall be assigned by the Faculty. The refusal of a Student to perform the part assign- ed him, on either of these occasions, will be punished as a high offence. Every performer shall deliver to the President, one week at least previously to the exhibition, a fair copy of his performance. At such times as may be fixed by the Professor of Rhetoric 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 public which he has been directed to omit, he shall suffer punishment according to the aggra- vation of the offence. CHAPTER XII. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 1. The Students will be examined, from time to time, by committees appointed by the Over- Ch. XII.] PUBLTC EXAMINATIONS. 17 seers from their own body, or from the commu- nity at large, in the whole of their studies. 2. To carry this design into effect, it shall be the duty of each instructor, when a class has completed a particular branch of study, or a particular book, or at such other times as shall be judged expedient by the Faculty, and deter- mined by a rule, to give information of the same to the President, who will assign a day for the examination of the Class in that study or book, giving notice at least seven days before to the chairman of the committee appointed to exam- ine in that branch of study. And the examining committee will be requested to mark by num- bers their estimate of the performance of each Student, on a scale to be fixed by the Faculty ; and the estimate of the several members of the committee shall be added to the account of each Student in the scale of merit. The committee will also state generally their opinion of the de- gree of thoroughness and exactness, with which the book, or branch of study, has been learned. 3. Unauthorized or unexcused absences from any such public examination shall subject the Student to such a deduction from his scale of merit, and to such special examination, as the Faculty shall prescribe. 2* 18 SCALE OF MERIT. [C7l. XIII. CHAPTER XIII. SCALE OF MERIT. 1. In order to ascertain, as nearly as may be, the rank of each Student, a scale of merit for each term will be made by adding together the amounts allowed to each Student by the several instructors. 2. The scale and the principles by which the estimates are to be made, including elective studies and estimates of them, shall be estab- lished by the Faculty, subject to such regula- tions as the Corporation may from time to time prescribe. 3. These principles shall include a scale of punishments, by way of deduction from the es- timates of merit, on account of tardiness at and absence from public worship, daily prayers, and recitations, of lessons not accepted, and of every negligence or misconduct at recitations or else- where, for which the Faculty shall deem such deduction a sufficient or suitable punishment. 4. At the close of each term, where any Student has failed to perform, to the satisfaction of the instructors, all studies and exercises which should have been performed during the term, the same may be required of him in the vacation ; and in order to this, he may be re- quired by the Faculty to remain at the Univer- sity until they have been fully performed. Ch. XIV.] PUNISHMENTS. 19 CHAPTER XIV. PUNISHMENTS. 1. The course of discipline in the College is, — friendly caution and warning, — solemn admonition, — official notice of delinquency to parents and guardians ; and, where the nature and circumstances of the case require it, sus- pension, — dismission, — rustication, — or expul- sion. Fines shall not be resorted to as an or- dinary punishment ; and none shall be imposed but by the Faculty. 2. All instances of the violation of the laws of the College, by disorderly conduct, by ab- sence from stated exercises, or by the negligent performance of prescribed duties, will be record- ed, and formally reported to the Faculty, at set times, and whenever occasion requires. 3. Whenever a Student is found to be delin- quent, he shall be liable, — to be deprived of any such indulgence, as may be granted to ex- emplary Students, with respect to absence, going out of town, and the like ; — to have particular portions of study prescribed to him, to be per- formed during the vacation, or at other times ; — and to forfeit all claims to the distinctions and rewards provided for the meritorious ; and, if he persist in such delinquency, he may be sus- pended or subjected to higher punishment. 4. By suspension for negligence, a Student 20 PUNISHMENTS. [Cfl. XIV. may be separated from his Class, as to those branches of study in which he is deficient, and placed under private instruction, provided for the purpose in the town of Cambridge. 5. Every person so suspended is required to perform exercises with the person or persons, unde!* whose care he is placed, at such times and in such manner as the Faculty shall direct ; and he is not permitted to leave the town of Cambridge during the time of his suspension, without special leave for some very urgent reason ; the same rules and restrictions being in force in vacation as in term time. And in no case shall he be restored to good stand- ing, till he shall have given entire satisfac- tion for at least three months, by orderly con- duct, and diligent and faithful application to his studies. 6. It is provided, however, that a Student, suspended either for negligence, or for any vio- lation of the laws, may, w 7 hen the Faculty shall think it expedient, be removed from the College and the town of Cambridge, and placed under the care of a suitable person ; and he shall be subject to restrictions and requisitions similar to those above mentioned, and be required to bring satisfactory testimonials of good conduct, and be examined for restoration. 7. Dismission is the separation of a Student from the College for an indefinite or for a limited time, at the discretion of the Faculty ; and no dismissed Student shall be readmitted to the Class he left, or any other, without satisfactory testimonials of good conduct during his separa- Ch. XIV.] PUNISHMENTS. 21 tion, and his appearing on examination to be well qualified for such readmission. 8. Rustication is the separation of a Student from all connection with the College, his re- moval 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 any lower class, at the discretion of the Faculty, upon his pro- ducing testimonials of good conduct during the whole time of his rustication, satisfactory to the Faculty, and upon his appearing on examination to be well qualified for the standing to which he is to be admitted. 9. Expulsion is a final separation from the College. 10. In all instances of offence against the laws and discipline of the College, or against good morals, to which no specific penalties are annexed in the laws, the Faculty may inflict such of the punishments before mentioned, as they shall think just and requisite. 11. When an offence is repeated, the Fac- ulty will not ordinarily have recourse to the same punishment as at first, but will proceed to inflict successively higher punishments, until the Student is reclaimed, or separated from the College. 12. In all cases of gross injuries or depreda- tions upon the property of the University or oth- ers ; or of gross trespasses or injuries done to persons or property within the precincts of the University, or charged upon any of its mem- 22 PUNISHMENTS. [CA. XIV. bers ; or whenever the nature and circumstances of the offence in the judgment of the Faculty require, — it shall be their duty to cause prose- cution to be instituted before the established tribunals of the State, and the forms of proceed- ing to be pursued, which are usually applied to like crimes and misdemeanours when committed by other citizens, or residents, according to the laws of the Commonwealth. 13. Every term -bill of each Student shall be accompanied by a statement, from the records, 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 Faculty, will be use- ful to his parent or guardian, to whom a copy of the term-bill, with the particulars above enu- merated, shall be sent. 14. Whenever the Faculty are satisfied that a Student is not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the College, or that he is not likely to fulfil them, or that he is from any cause an unfit member thereof, it shall be the duty of the Faculty to dismiss him. Provided, however, that the Faculty may, whenever they see fit, acquaint the parent or guardian of such Student with his character and conduct, and leave it to such parent or guardian to remove him by his or her own act. Cfl. XV.] HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. 23 CHAPTER XV. HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. High offences may be punished at the dis- cretion of the Faculty with any of the College punishments. Misdemeanours are less offences, and may receive any censure below suspension, or, if repeated or persisted in, some higher pun- ishment. High offences are, — 1. Gross violations of the respect due to the Faculty or other officers of the University. — Riotous and noisy behaviour, to the disturbance of the University or of the inhabitants of Cam- bridge. — Refusing or neglecting to attend, when sent for by the Faculty or any officer. — Diobedience to the sentence of the Faculty or a Committee thereof for any offence. — Ob- structing or resisting the instructors or other officers in the discharge of their duties, or en- couraging similar acts in others. — Challeng- ing, assaulting, or maliciously endeavouring to injure any Student. — Maliciously defacing or injuring the edifices of the University, or any furniture, apparatus, books, or other valuable property in any apartment thereof. 2. Combinations to resist or disobey the Fac- ulty or laws of the College. In such cases if so many be actors or abettors, as to render it inexpedient to punish all concerned, the Faculty will select for punishment as many of the of- 24 HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. [Ch. XV. fenders as they may judge necessary to secure the end of punishment; and those who have been the most culpable, when known, shall be selected for punishment ; and also the two old- est of those concerned in the offence. 3. Holding, or being present at, any class- meeting without special license from the Presi- dent, or for any other purpose or purposes than those expressed in the license, or at any times that shall interfere with any College exercise. 4. Refusing to give testimony in any case, when required by the Faculty, or by a commit- tee thereof; or falsifying therein. In all cases of screening individuals, who have committed acts of disorder or violence, by withholding evidence, the Faculty may select for punish- ment any who, by thus withholding evidence and screening the guilty, shall appear, to the satisfaction of the Faculty, to be actors in or abettors of the crime. 5. Profane language. — Intoxication. — Inde- cency in language, dress, or behaviour. — Dis- soluteness, or other gross immorality. — Habitual extravagance, after due admonition. — Playing at any game for money or other things of value. — Associating with any person under sentence of suspension, dismission, rustication, or expul- sion ; or with any other prohibited person ; or with any person of known vice and dissolute- ness. — Any offence against the laws of the land, subjecting the offender to disgraceful punish- ment. Ch. XV.] HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANOURS. 25 6. Keeping any gun, pistol, or gunpowder, or firing or using the same, in the town of Cam- bridge. — Being concerned in any bonfire, fire- works, or unauthorized illuminations. — Being an actor or spectator at any theatrical entertain- ment in term time. — Making or being present at any festive entertainment, except at the Com- mencement season and on Exhibition day with license of the President. — Going to any tavern or victualling-house in Cambridge for the pur- pose of eating or drinking, except in the pres- ence of a parent, guardian, or Patron. Misdemeanours are, — 1. All offences not enumerated as high of- fences. Among these are the following. — Keep- ing any dog, horse, or other animal, in the town of Cambridge, without leave first obtained from the Faculty. — Playing at cards or dice. — Dis- obedience to any of the rules and regulations of the College, and disrespectful and unbecom- ing language or conduct, not amounting to a high offence. 2. Attending during term time the instruc- tion of any person who is not an officer of the University, without special permission from the Faculty. 26 PATRON. [C/l. XVI. CHAPTER XVI. THE PATRON. 1. Some gentleman of Cambridge, not of the Faculty, shall be appointed by the Corporation to be Patron of all Students not of this Com- monwealth, who belong to places more than one hundred miles distant from Cambridge, and shall have charge of all the funds of such Stu- dents. 2. The Patron shall have particular instructions from the Faculty concerning the kind of ex- penses allowed to be incurred by the Students whose funds are in his hands, and he shall make no disbursements and pay no bills inconsistent with such instructions ; and whatever bills he may pay shall contain a distinct specification and charge of every article. 3. The Patron shall give a detailed account of the expenses incurred by each Student under his care to the Faculty, and to the Corporation, when required. 4. The parent or guardian of each Student shall be informed what are the necessary annual expenses included in the term-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 ; and the Patron is to have the whole control of the same, under the direction of the Faculty. Ch. XVII.] LIBRARY. 27 5. No Student, subject to this law, shall be permitted to continue at the College unless he comply with it; and every such Student is to be charged in his term-bills at the rate of six dollars a year towards a compensation to the Patron. 6. No such Student is allowed to contract any debt without an order from the Patron. The rules of the College, in relation to the expenditures of Students belonging to this State, or to any place within a hundred miles of Cam- bridge, are to be communicated to the Students concerned and to their parents or guardians ; and no such Student is allowed to contract any debt without an order from his parent or guar- dian. CHAPTER XVII. THE LIBRARY, AND THE USE OF IT BY UNDERGRADU- ATES. 1. The Library, in term time, shall be open, for using books, six hours a day on the first four secular days of the w r eek, and four hours on Friday, during such parts of the day as the Fac- ulty shall direct ; except on the days of public Fast and Thanksgiving, the day of the general Election, and the Fourth of July, and on the days of public Exhibitions and the Dudleian Lecture, during the exercises. 28 LIBRARY. [Ch. XVII. 2. Undergraduates will apply for books, and receive them, as follows, viz. Seniors and Juniors apply for books on Mon- day and Thursday, Sophomores on Tuesday, Freshmen on Wednesday ; at such hours, and under such rules, as may be prescribed by the Faculty. 3. The times for returning books to the Li- brary shall be the same as those appointed for applying for them. 4. The books most suitable for the use of Undergraduates shall be separated from the rest, and deposited in the Librarian's room, where they shall be accessible to the students, and may be borrowed by them. 5. Books may also be borrowed from the gen- eral Library by the Students on application to the Librarian. 6. No person shall go into any of the alcoves, or take down any book from the shelves, or re- main there to read and consult any book, except under such special regulations as the Faculty shall establish. 7. No person shall ordinarily be allowed to borrow from the Library more than three vol- umes at the same time, or shall keep any book belonging to it more than six weeks. 8. Each member 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 Freshman Classes, not more than two volumes. Ctl. XVII.] LIBRARY. 29 9. No book shall be borrowed from the Li- brary, or returned to it, without the knowledge and presence of the Librarian or his Assistant, who shall take particular notice of the state of each book, when delivered out, and when re- turned. And the Librarian shall keep a fair and regular account of the person borrowing or returning the same, and the time of doing it ; which account shall be signed by the borrower, if present; otherwise the book may be deliv- ered upon his written application. 10. No person shall lend to any other a book, which he has borrowed from the Library, nor let it go from under his personal custody. And no Student shall carry a book out of town without special leave. 11. If any person shall fail to comply with the laws regulating the borrowing and return- ing of books, and the lending or carrying them out of town, such person shall be reported to the Faculty, who may suspend his privilege of borrowing, or inflict some other penalty at their discretion. 12. All books borrowed by the Students must be returned on or before the Tuesday immedi- ately preceding the Winter vacation. Those who reside in Cambridge during any vacation are permitted to have books at the regular times. 13. Every person, tvithout exception, having books from the Library, shall return them in the month of June annually, as soon, at the latest, as the ninth Wednesday before Commence- 30 COMMENCEMENT. [CA. XVIII. ment ; and all the books shall be retained in the Library, from and after said ninth Wednesday, twenty-five days, for the Annual Examination. 14. If any book borrowed from the Library be injured or defaced by writing in it or other- wise, or be lost, the Librarian shall make imme- diate report of it to the Faculty. And if the borrower be a Graduate or Undergraduate, the Faculty shall oblige him to replace it as soon as possible, with one of equal value, or they may punish him by fine or otherwise ; and, if such volume be part of a set, the borrower shall be obliged to replace the whole set, or be punished as above ; and, until this be done, he shall not be allowed to borrow any other book. 15. The Faculty shall have authority to make regulations, from time to time, respecting the use of the Library, as they may deem expedi- ent, subject to the approbation of the Corpora- tion. CHAPTER XVIII. COMMENCEMENT AND ACADEMICAL DEGREES. 1. The Commencement hereafter shall be on the fourth Wednesday in August, annually. 2. No Student shall receive a first degree, unless he produce to the President a certifi- cate from the Steward, that he has paid his Ch. XVIII.] COMMENCEMENT. 31 College dues, and one from the Librarian, that he is not a delinquent at the Library ; which certificates must be produced on the day before the Commencement, at furthest, or the degree will not be conferred that year. 3. 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 refuses or neglects to per- form at the Commencement the part assigned him. 4. Each performer at the Commencement shall deliver a fair copy of his performance to the President or presiding officer, within such time as shall be prescribed, previously to the Commencement. 5. 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 public which he has been directed to omit, he shall not be suffered to proceed, and shall be liable to lose his degree. 6. Every candidate for a first degree shall attend in black, or in such dress as is prescrib- ed for Undergraduates. INDEX. Absences in Term Time, how restricted, 7. , Leave for, how granted, 7. from Public Examinations, how punished, 17. from Exercises and Duties, how punished, 18. Absence, Leave of, Excuse for, how granted, 7. , in Term Time, how granted, 7. , Duty of Students returning after, 7. Account, Detailed, to be given by the Patron to the Faculty, 26. Admittance to Full Standing, when and how, 5, 6. Animal, none to be kept without license, 25. Assessments for damage done, when made, and in what man- ner, 10. Assaulting a Student, how punished, 23. Associating with a person dismissed, rusticated, or expelled, how punished, 24. Attendance on the Instruction of any one, not an officer of the University, without license, prohibited, 25. B. Beneficiaries, how selected, 15. Bill of Attendance on Prayers to be kept, 8. Boarding-houses to be approved by the Faculty, 9, 10. Board in Commons, Regulations of, 12. Boarding out of College, how restricted and regulated, 9, 10. Bonfires, Making of, prohibited, and how punished, 25. Books from the Library, on what days and hours to be applied for, 28. , when to be returned, 29, 30. , Application for, at the Library, when to be made, 28. , not to be borrowed or returned without the knowledge of the Librarian or his Assistant, 29. most suitable for Undergraduates, to be distinguished, 28. , what, may be borrowed, and how many, how to be ob- tained, 28, 29. not to be lent, 29. 34 INDEX. Books, Privilege of borrowing, when to be suspended, 29. not to be taken down from the shelves and alcoves without special permission of the Librarian, 28. , injured, defaced, or lost, to be reported to the Faculty, 30. Bowdoin Prize Fund, how awarded, 13. Boylston Prize Fund, 14. , how distributed, 15. Buildings and Property, Damage done to, how punished, 10. Candidates for First Degree, how to be dressed, 31. Cards, Playing at, prohibited, 25. Challenging a Student, how punished, 23. Civil Tribunals, when to be resorted to, 22. Class Meetings, not to be held without license, 24. , how regulated and restricted, 24. , when punished as unlawful combinations, 24. Combinations to resist or disobey the laws, how punished, 23. Committees of Examination, how and when notified, 16, 17. , how to estimate the performances of the Student, 17. Commencement, Festive Entertainments on, how licensed, 25. , Duties of those who have" Parts at, 31. Commons and Board, Regulation of, 12. , Disorder at, how punished, 12. Compensation to Patron, 26. Connection with the University, how closed, 5. Crimes, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 22. D. Damage done to Buildings or Property, how punished, 10. done to Utensils in the Hall, how to be assessed, and on whom, 10. , when assessed, how appropriated, 10. when assessed, and upon whom, 10. Decorum, Violation of, at Commons, how punished, 12. Debt, Students not to incur, without an order from parent, guar- dian, or Patron, 27. Defacing or Injuring College Edifices or Property, how pun- ished, 23. Books belonging to the Library, how pun- ished, 30. Degree, Candidates for the First, at Commencement, how to be dressed, 31. Degrees, Academical, duties of those who receive them, 31. not to be conferred on those who refuse to perform their Parts, 31. INDEX. 35 Devotional Exercises, Duty of Students at, 8. Dice, Playing at, prohibited, 25. Discipline*, Course of, in the University, 19. Dismission, its nature and consequences, 20. Disobedience to the Laws of the University, how punished, 19, 23. Diorderly Conduct, to be recorded and reported, 19. Dissoluteness, how punished, 24. Dog, not to be kept, 25. Dress, Candidates for First Degree, how to be dressed, 31. of Students, how regulated, 1. E. Examination, Acceptance on, what is the Student's duty upon, 4. Examinations, Public, when and how regulated, 16. , Absence from, how punished, 17. , Committees of, how and when notified, 17. Exercises, Students', how affected by Vacations, 11. at Exhibitions, Copy of, to be presented to the Presi- dent, 16. may be required to be performed in "Vacations, 16. -, what to be performed in case of absence, 19. Exhibitions, when and how Exercises at them are assigned and regulated, 16. Exhibition Days, Festive Entertainments on, how licensed, 25. Expulsion, its nature and consequences, 21. Extravagance, Habitual, how punished, 24. Evidence, Withholding, how punished, 24. Faculty of the University, Who constitute the, 3. , their authority, 3. , Members of, when insulted, not to sit on trial of the offender, 4. regulate Mode of granting Leave, and receiving Excuse for Absences, 8. assign Rooms, 9. approve Boarding-houses, 10. may require Students to perform Exercises in Vaca- tion, 19. give information to parents and guardians of conduct of Students, 22. ; — , how to punish offences which have no specific penal- ties, 23. -, how to punish combinations for resistance and disobe- dience, 24. — — , when they may make a selection for punishment, 24. license Instructors, 24. 36 INDEX. Faculty may dismiss Students not fulfilling, or likely to fulfil, purposes of residence ; or advise parent or guardian to re- move them, 22. Festive Entertainment, Making or being present at, when pro- hibited, and how punished, 27. at Commencement, and on Exhibition Day, President may license, 25. Funds, when to be resorted to, and how restricted, 19. Fireworks, Making of, prohibited, and how punished, 25. Firing of a Gun, Pistol, or Gunpowder, in the town of Cambridge, prohibited, 25. Furniture and Fuel of Rooms, who are to find, 9. • G. Gaming, how punished, 25. Gun, not to be kept, 25. Gunpowder, not to be kept, 25. H. Habitual Extravagance, how punished, 24. High Offences, their nature and punishments, 23. Hollis Scholarships, how distributed, 15. Hopkins Fund, how applied, 13. Horse, not to be kept without license, 25. Hours of Study, how established, 6. Illuminations, Unauthorized, prohibited, and how punished, 25. Immorality, how punished, 24. Indecency in Language, Dress, or Behaviour, how punished, 24. Injuries or Trespasses, how punished, 23. Instructors of the University not to receive presents, 4. Instructors, not officers of the University, how licensed, 3. Intoxication, how punished, 24. Language, Profane, Disrespectful, or Unbecoming, how punished, 24, 25. Laws, Violation of, to be recorded and reported, 19. of the Commonwealth, when resort to be had to them, 21. Leave of Absence, Duty of Students returning after, 7. for a night in Term Time, how granted, 7. Library, when open, and when may be closed, 27. Librarian to keep account of Books borrowed and returned, 29. INDEX. 37 Librarian to report to the Faculty any Books defaced, injured, or lost, 30. Literary Exertions, Encouragements and Rewards for, 13. Lord's Day, Duty of Students on, 8. , Students may attend the public worship of any de- nomination of Christians, on what condition, 8. M. Matriculation, Requisites for, 4. Merit, Scale of, how made, 18. Misdemeanours, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 22. , their nature and punishments, 23-25. Offences, Repeated, how punished, 21. , against which there are no specific penalties, how pun- ished, 21. -, their nature and punishments, 23. — — , the oldest concerned in, when to be selected for punish- ment, 23. — against the Laws of the Land, Punishment of, 24. Parents or Guardians to be informed of the Students' conduct, 22. Patron, Laws relative to the, 26. Performances at Commencement, Copies of, to be delivered to the President, 31. — Penalty for additions to, or for uttering what has been directed to be omitted, 31. Polite Accomplishments, Teachers of, how licensed, 3. Prayers, Attendance on, Bills to be kept of, 8. Presents not allowed to Instructors or Officers of the University, 4. President, a Member of the Faculty, 3. Prize Funds, Hopkins, Bowdoin, Boylston, 13, 14. Probation, when closed, and what its consequences, 5. , when finally closed, 5. , what, and how long continued, 5. Proctors, their authority, 4. Profane Language, how punished, 24. Professors, which of the, are Members of the Faculty, 3. Property, Buildings, Damage done to, how punished, 10. Public Worship, of any denomination of Christians, may be attend- ed by the Students, on what conditions, 9. Punishments, how inflicted in cases where there are no specific penalties, 21. ■ for gross trespasses, what, 21. , their nature and course, 19. 38 INDEX. R. Refusing to attend when sent for by the Faculty or any officer, how punished, 23. Religious Services, Bills of Attendance on, to be kept, 8. Repetition of Offences, how punished, 23. Resisting Instructors, how punished, 23. — Obstructing Instruct- ors when performing their duties, how punished, 23. Return of Books to the Library, when to be made, 29. Rewards and Encouragements, how established for literary exer- tions, 13. Riotous Behaviour, how punished, 23. Rooms, Fuel and Furniture of, who to find, 9. , their occupation, 9. ■ to be assigned by Faculty, 9. , Students' duty in respect of, 9. Rustication, its nature and consequences, 21. s. Scale of Merit, how made, J 8. , Principles of the, 18. Schools, what Students are allowed to keep, and on what terms, 7. Students may be required to remain at the University in Va- cation, until Exercises, in which they have failed, be per- formed, 19. , having been absent, what Exercises they are to per- form, 19. , their duty on return after any Vacation, 11. may be required to perform Exercises in Vacation, 19. , accepted on examination, their duties, 4. , their performances, how estimated by committee of ex- amination, 17. , Probation of, how much it may be prolonged, 5. , Delinquency of, how punished, 19. , Suspended, how restored, and on what conditions, 20. , Dismissed, on what conditions may be restored, 20. , Rusticated, on what conditions may be restored, 21. not to board in any houses, except such as are approved by the Faculty, 9. , their duty in Study Hours, 6. not to be absent a night in Term Time, without leave, 7. must lodge a certificate of leave or absence, when and where, 7. , returning after leave of absence, duty of, 7. , prolonging their absence beyond leave, duty of, 7. -, Meritorious, may be allowed to keep school, 7. , when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 21. INDEX. 39 Students to have their distinctions and punishments reported to their parents or guardians, 22. , their duty on the Lord's Day, and at devotional exer- cises, 8. , what they are to abstain from, on the Lord's Day, 8. , consequences of terminating Probation, 5. , when and how permitted to rejoin the University after Probation is closed, 5. , not Candidates for a Degree, how admitted, 5. , what required of them, and on what conditions, 6. , Dress of, how regulated, 3. may attend public worship of any denomination of Chris- tians, on what condition, 8. , how and when they may obtain the use of Books not usually allowed to be borrowed, 29. , residing in Cambridge, to have the use of the Library in Vacation, 29. , failing to comply with the laws of the Library, how pun- ished, 30. , when they may apply for Books, 28. , who of them may remain in Cambridge during Vacations, and how regulated, 11. , Damages assessed on, when and in what manner, 10. , doing damage to property or buildings, how punished, 10. , their duty in respect of Rooms and their occupation, 9. — Responsible for disorder in their Rooms, 9. , Exercises of, how affected by Vacations, 11. , Duty of, in respect of Commons, on coming to Cam- bridge, 12. -, not likely to fulfil the purposes of his residence, to be dismissed, 22. -, if unfit member of the University, may be dismissed, 22. Study Hours, how established, 6. , Duty of Students in, 6. Suspension, its consequences and regulations, 19. — May be in Cambridge or some other town, 20. Tavern, going to, when prohibited, and how punished, 25. Teachers of Polite Accomplishments, how licensed, 3. Term-Bills, with what marks of approbation or misconduct to be accompanied, 22. Testimony, Refusing to give, how punished, 24. , Falsifying in, how punished, 24. Theatrical Exhibitions, being present or an actor at, prohibited, and how punished, 25. Trespasses, Aggravated, how punished, 23, 24. Tutors, Members of the Faculty, 3. 40 INDEX. u. University, the Faculty of, who constitute, 3. V. Vacations, Exercises may be required to be performed in, 19. , Duty of Students on their return after, 11. , How the charge for Commons is affected by, 12. , What Students may, and what may not, remain in Cam- bridge during, 11. , What Students may have the use of the Library in, 28. , how the Exercises of Students are affected by them, 11. -, their number and length, 11. Victualling-house, Going to, when and how punished, 25. w. Wood, in Rooms, who find, 9. Worship, Public, where Students may attend on the Lord's Day, 8. OHDEBS AND REGULATIONS THE FACULTY / OF J HARVARD UNIVERSITY. CAMBRIDGE: METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 1845. ORDERS AND REGULATIONS FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, PASSED HI CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORITY GIVEN BY THE LAWS OF THE COLLEGE. [See Laws, ch. i. § 2, 4.] § I. OF THE DRESS OF THE STUDENTS. On Sabbaths and Exhibition days, and on all public occasions, each Student, in public, shall wear a black*** frcoat, with buttons of the same color. §11. OF EXCUSES FROM PARENTS OR GUARDIANS. [See Laws, ch. v. § 3.] All excuses by parents or guardians for absence, after vacation, or during term time, must state the reason of such absence, in order that the Faculty may judge of its sufficiency ; and no excuse, unaccompanied by a satis- factory reason, will be accepted. § III. OF EXCUSES FOR ABSENCE FROM PRAYERS, SAB- BATH SERVICES, AND OTHER EXERCISES. [See Laws, ch. vi. § 3, 4.] The bills of attendance on prayers and Sabbath ser- vices shall be left at the President's study every Monday morning by the respective Monitors. No excuse for absence from prayers, Sabbath servi- ces, Recitations, Lectures, or other literary exercises, will be received, unless, in case of sickness, upon a cer- tificate from a physician, parent, or guardian ; and no such excuse shall be allowed, except by vote of the Faculty. § IV. OF ABSENCE FROM SATURDAY EVENING PRAYERS. Any Student, who shall be absent from prayers on Saturday evening, shall be excused, upon entering his name with such officer as shall be designated by the President, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock of that evening. §V. — OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCES. Whenever, in the course of any one tertff^aftj^SW"* dent's unexcused absences from prayers shall amount to sixteen, or from recitations or lectures to four, or from church (half-days) to one, he shall be immediately re- ported to the Faculty, and shall receive a private admo- nition ; should his unexcused absences from prayers afterwards increase to thirty-two, or from recitations or lectures to eight, or from church to two, he shall receive a public admonition, and a letter shall be sent to his parent or guardian ; and, should his unexcused absences from prayers afterwards increase to forty-eight, from re- citations or lectures to twelve, or from church to three, he shall be suspended or dismissed. And he shall receive the same course of censures, whenever, during any one term, all his unexcused absences shall subject him to a deduction from the scale, first, of thirty-two, — secondly, of sixty-four, — and thirdly, of ninety-six. The above provisions shall not apply to Students on probation. § VI. OF UNIVERSITY HALL, AND MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. The Chapel shall never be used for any declamation, recitation, or public meeting whatsoever, rehearsals ex- cepted, without a special vote of the Faculty. University Hall shall be closed for the night imme- diately after evening Commons. No Society shall be deemed authorized and entitled to have any room assigned for its meetings, unless a copy of its constitution, and of all its rules and regulations, be deposited with the President. It shall also be the duty of every such authorized So- ciety to cause to be left with the President of the Uni- versity the names of its President and Secretary, within one week after their election ; and, when required, of all its members. To Societies complying with these conditions, the Faculty may assign a room, and cause it to be opened and lighted, on the evenings of their meetings, free of expense to such Societies. Any damage done in the building, during the evening of any such meeting, if be- lieved by the Faculty to have been occasioned by the meeting, or by those present at it, shall be assessed ac- cordingly. § VII. — OF CLASS AND GENERAL MEETINGS. [See Laws, ch. xv. § 3.] No class, or general, or other meeting of Students shall be called, without an application in writing, of three 6 Students, and no more, expressing the purpose of such meeting ; nor otherwise than by a printed notice, signed by the President of the University, expressing the time, the object, and place of such meeting ; and the three Students applying for such meeting shall be held respon- sible for any proceedings at it contrary to the laws of the University, or other than for the object expressed in such application. Nor shall any such authorized meet- ing be continued by adjournment. But for every meet- ing a new authority must be applied for and obtained. Every Student attending any class, or general, or other meeting, otherwise called, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour. § VIII. OF VIOLATIONS OF DECORUM. The following shall be consided violations of de- corum : — Collecting in groups round the doors of the College buildings or in the yard. Shouting or talking from any window, or from the yard up to any window. Smoking in the yard, the public rooms, or the entries. Carrying canes into the Chapel, recitation-rooms, Library, or any public room. Reading, or talking, or improper attitude, in the Chapel, or being covered within the Chapel or recita- tion-rooms. Entering the Chapel, at any religious service, after the tolling of the bell has ceased . Singing or playing upon any musical instrument, ex- cept between 6 o'clock, P. M., and the study bell; and also on Saturdays after 10 o'clock, A. M. § IX. OF BONFIRES. In case of a bonfire, any persons crying fire, — sounding an alarm, — leaving their rooms, — going to the fire, or being seen at it, — going into the College yard, — or assembling on account of such bonfire, — shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, and punished accordingly. § X. OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. [See Laws, ch. xn. § 2.] At every public examination, each member of the Committee will be requested to graduate his estimate of value by a scale, of which eight shall be indicative of the highest merit. The sum of the marks given by the members of the Committee, who are present, shall be carried to the account of each Student in the general estimate of merit. To this shall also be added the mark of the Instructor, graduated on a scale of forty. § XI. OF ABSENCE FROM, AND OMISSIONS OF, RECI- TATIONS ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. [See Laws, ch. xn. § 3.] Any unexcused or unauthorized absence from public examination shall subject the delinquent to have de- ducted from his account in the general scale of merit Jive times the average value of one recitation ; and he will also be examined by the Faculty in whatever was the subject of the public examination, and such pro- ceedings be had upon the result as they may deem expedient. If an entire class be examined, such class shall be excused from attending the regular recitations on the day of the examination. If a portion of a class be ex- amined, that portion shall be excused from attending those recitations with which the examination actually interferes. § XII. OF THE ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS. [See ch. vn. §1,2.] Thirty-four rooms, including library rooms, shall be appropriated to the Seniors, to be elected by them. 8 The right of choice, among the members of the Class, to be regulated by the value, on the Steward's scale, of the rooms occupied during the previous years, and the living in a room the greater part of a year shall be deemed an occupation ; — those who chum together to have the preference. After all the chums are accommodated, the Seniors, who apply for rooms alone, may take the residue of the Senior appropriation, their right of choice being governed by the same principles as heretofore. Such Seniors may take chums from either of the under classes ; but no student shall occupy alone a room in Holworthy. Twenty-eight rooms shall be appropriated to the Jun- iors, to be elected by them on the same principle in respect to chums, and to the right of those who apply for rooms alone. Tiventy-jive rooms shall be appropriated to the Soph- omores, their choice regulated by the same principle. In case all the rooms appropriated to a Class are not taken by those of that Class having claims, the residue shall be assigned to applicants of the same Class alpha- betically, — the order of the alphabet to be reversed in alternate years. Preference will always be given to those who have occupied rooms in College. In respect of each class, if the whole number re- served to any class be not taken up, the residue shall be added to the number allowed to the class next below. Sixteen rooms, being all the rooms not assigned to the upper classes in the manner above described, shall be distributed to the Freshmen, except the rooms under Tutors and Proctors ; those in Holworthy always to be occupied each by two Freshmen. No person not actually a member of the College shall be considered as having any claim in the distribution of rooms. No Undergraduate shall quit a room which has been assigned to him, or occupy a room which has not been assigned to him, without leave of the President. § XIII. OF ESTIMATES OF MERIT ; AND OF RETURNS OF ABSENCES FROM, AND CONDUCT AT, RECITA- TIONS. [See ch. xm. § 2.] Every Instructor will make a monthly return to the President, containing the opinion of such Instructor as to the value of every exercise performed relative to each individual, expressed in some number of a series, of which eight will be indicative of the highest value in recitations and in Latin and Greek written exercises ; — forty-eight in themes ; — seventy-two in forensics ; — and sixty in declamations. Any Student, who shall have been present at any recitation, or exercise, and not examined, shall be enti- tled to receive monthly the average value of his other recitations, for all such exercises, at which he shall have been present and not examined. No omissions shall be permitted to be made up, ex- cept in the term within which they have occurred, and by an express vote of the Faculty. In case of long-continued absence on account of sick- ness, or with leave to keep school, or otherwise, for rea- sons satisfactory to the Faculty, the individual may have an opportunity to be examined in all the studies recited by his Class during his absence, and may have such al- lowance, estimated according to the number of interven- ing lessons, as the Instructor may deem equitable. Every Instructor will also make a weekly return, in which he will note absence and tardiness, — all miscon- duct at recitations, — and any other circumstance, which ought to have weight in the general estimate of merit and conduct. 10 § XIV. OF WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE. [See Laws, ch. xv. § 4.] In all cases of screening individuals, who have com- mitted acts of disorder or violence, by withholding evi- dence, the Faculty, in selecting persons for punishment who shall thus have offended against the laws, and shall thus appear, to the satisfaction of the Faculty, to be actors in or abettors of the crime, will be governed by the following rule, viz. They will select one or more of those, who, either from the records of the Faculty or of the Parietal Board, or from the concurring statement of a majority of the Instructors, shall appear to have been most disorderly and exceptionable in general conduct ; and will apply the punishment due to the principal of- fence to the person or persons thus selected ; unless the actually guilty shall, by confession, satisfactory to the Faculty, wholly exonerate those thus selected. § XV. — OF PRESCRIBED AND ELECTIVE STUDIES. 1st. The Freshman Class shall have no Elective stud- ies ; and their Prescribed studies shall be Mathematics, Greek, Latin, Chemistry, and History. 2d. The Prescribed studies during the Sophomore year shall be English Grammar, Composition, Rhetoric, Declamation, Psychology, Natural History, and Civil History. The Elective studies shall be Mathematics, Greek, Latin, and the Modern Languages. 3d. The Prescribed studies during the Junior year shall be English Composition, Logic, Declamation, Physics, the Constitution of the United States, Foren- sics, and History. The Elective studies shall be Bot- any, a more extended course in Psychology and Ethics, and any of the other elective studies above enumerated. 4th. The Prescribed studies during the Senior year shall be Rhetoric, English Composition, Ethics, Civil Polity, Political Economy, Forensics, the Evidences of 11 Natural and Revealed Religion, History, and Declama- tion. The Elective studies shall be Botany, a more ex- tended course in Physics, and any of the elective studies allowed in the Sophomore year. 5th. Four weeks at least before the close of the Sec- ond Term, every Student shall make a written statement to the Faculty of the elective studies he wishes to pur- sue the following year ; accompanied, if he be under age, by an application from his parent or guardian ; it being understood that the branches elected shall, in the opinion of the Faculty, be sufficient, with the prescribed studies, to occupy his time, and that the whole is sub- ject to revision by the Faculty ; and the arrangement thereupon made shall be binding for one year. § XVI. — OF PERFORMANCES AT EXHIBITIONS AND COMMENCEMENTS. [See ch. xi. § 6.] Performances shall be in readiness for rehearsal one fortnight before every Exhibition, and six days before Commencement. § XVII. OF THE SCALE OF MERIT. [See ch. xm. § 3.] One fortnight before the end of each term, the bills for that term shall be closed, and a new series of bills for the ensuing term shall be opened. A scale of merit shall then be formed by the Faculty with reference to the term then closed, by bringing to- gether the respective bills of attendance on prayers and Sabbath exercises, and the returns of the several In- structors, on the following principles. The merit of each individual shall be ascertained by adding together the numbers in the returns of each In- structor and of the public Examining Committees. 12 From the aggregate of these numbers shall be deduct- ed, for all unexcused delinquencies, as follows : — Every absence from daily prayers, . . .2 Every absence from public worship for every half-day , 32 Every tardiness at any recitation, lecture, or other exercise, ....... 4 Every absence from recitation .... 8 u u from a declamation ... 8 " " from themes or forensics, . . 8 Every omission of a theme or forensic, . . 48 " " of a Greek or Latin written exercise, 8 " " of a declamation ... 60 " " of reading a forensic . . .48 Any Student who shall come to a recitation un- prepared, shall be liable to a deduction of . 8 Every Instructor may apportion his notation of those exercises, of which eight is indicative of the highest value, in such a manner as he shall judge most effective ; provided that the aggregate of his marks shall never ex- ceed what all the said exercises would be entitled to ; and that the principle of apportionment adopted shall be applicable to the whole Class attending him. Every absence from an exercise by combination will be deemed and punished as a high offence. Misconduct at recitations, lectures, or other exercises, not amounting to a high offence, shall be marked at the discretion of the Instructor, not exceeding thirty-two, and deduction be made accordingly. General misconduct will, at the discretion of the Fac- ulty, be made the ground of deduction. The scale of merit, formed by the result of the re- spective aggregates, additions, and deductions, shall be the general rule in reference to which all College bene- fits and honors shall be distributed. § XVIII. OF ASSIGNMENT OF PARTS AT COMMENCE- MENT. [See Laws, cb, xi. § 6.] 1. Every Student, the aggregate of all whose marks shall place him in the first half of his Class, shall be en- titled, on the ground of general scholarship, to a part at Commencement. 2. Every Student who has distinguished himself in any department shall receive credit for the same by having the name of that department printed in connec- tion with his own in the Order of Performances at Com- mencement, and if he has distinguished himself highly, the name of the department shall be printed in Italics ; and all Students who attain to either of these honors, whether, in the general scale of merit, they fall within the first half of the Class or not, shall be entitled to a part at Commencement. 3. If, upon the returns of the Rhetorical Department in Elocution, regard being also had to performances at Exhibition, it shall be thought unadvisable by the Fac- ulty, that a Student, who is entitled to a part at Com- mencement as aforesaid, should perform it, his part shall still be assigned as in other cases, and inserted in the Order of Performances for Commencement. § XIX. OF THE PARIETAL COMMITTEE, AND ITS DUTIES. The officers resident within the College walls shall constitute a permanent standing committee, to be called the Parietal Committee. This Committee shall have particular cognizance of all tardinesses at prayers, and Sabbath services, and of all offences against good order and decorum. 14 Rules to be observed by the Parietal Committee. I. Of Tardinesses. 1. The Committee shall keep a record of all tardi- nesses at prayers and Sabbath services ; and this shall be communicated to the Faculty at the end of every Term ; who will, for every instance, deduct eight from the rank of each Student so reported. 2. Whenever the number of tardinesses of any one individual shall be found to amount to five in a Term, the fact shall be immediately reported to the Faculty for their action thereupon. II. Of Offences against Good Order and Decorum. 1. Deduction from the rank of a Student, not exceed- ing thirty-two for one offence, shall be made by the Committee, whenever the nature or circumstances of the offence shall in their judgment require it. 2. In case any offence, either from its character or its frequency, shall seem to the Committee to require a higher punishment than deduction, it shall be their duty to report the same to the Faculty forthwith. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 908 962 9 •]