LAWS
AND
REGULATIONS
OF
FRANLIN COLLEGE,
Five Miles From Nashville, Tennessee.
' NASHVILLE:
PRINTED  BY JOHN T. S. FALL, AT THE AGRICULTURIST OFFICE,
i 1845.
LAWS AID REGULATIONS
of
FRANKLIN COLLEGE,
Five Miles from Nashville, Tennessee.
AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE FRANKLIN COLLEGE.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, That James H. Foster, George W. Mar¬
tin, John R. Wilson, Edward Trabue, John Shelby, Francis
McGavock, Turner Vaughn, John W. Richardson, Wm. H.
Wharton, Andrew Ewing, John W. Simpson, Tolbert Fanning
and Bowling Embry, and their successors, be, and they are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name
and style of "The Trustees of Franklin College," and by that
name may have succession for five hundred years, with full
power and authority to sue and be sued, plead and be implead¬
ed, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or
equity in this State, and to have and to use a corporate seal,
which they may alter or change at pleasure.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said com¬
pany may be one hundred thousand dollars, which the Trus¬
tees, or any number of them may own, on such condition as
may be agreed upon by themselves, and any portion of said
fund may be subscribed as stock purchased, received as
donation or otherwise, as the Trustees may determine.
Sec. 3. Be it enacted, That the Trustees may have the
privilege of increasing their number to twenty four, and
they shall have power at any meeting regularly called, to
elect others when vacancies may occur, and also to make and
declare vacant the seat of any Trustee who shall absent
himself for any one year, or from any four successive meet¬
ings duly notified, or from any conduct not becoming the dig¬
nity or responsibility of his station, and they shall also have
authority to meet from time to time upon their own adjourn¬
ment, and so often as they shall be summoned by their Pres-
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idenf, or in his absence by the senior Trustee, whose seniority
shall be accounted in the order in which the said Trustees
are named in this act, and shall be elected hereafter; Provi¬
ded, always, that the President or senior Trustee shall not
summon a meeting unless peiitioned in writing by those of
the members who shall state the cause of the meeting and
the business to be performed.
Seb. 4. Be it enacted, That any five of the Trustees,
lawfully convened, shall constitute a quorum to do all busi¬
ness except for the election of President and Trustee, for
either of which there shall be at least a majority of the
whole number present.
Sec. 5. Be it enacted, That the Trustees shall have full
power and authority to prescribe the course of study and
discipline of the Institution, and to elect fro their own num¬
ber or otherwise a President of the College, who shall be
ex officio President of the Board of Trustees, and such pro¬
fessors, tutors, or other officers as they may deem necessary,
and the said President, professors and tutors shall constitute
the faculty of the College, to whom shall be committed the
superintendance of the course of study and discipline of the
Institution,, and the trustees shall have full power to make,
alter and amend all Bye-Laws for the College not inconsis¬
tent with the laws of the United States or this State.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Trus¬
tees to attend all the examinations of the students, and pub¬
lish annually a report of the progress of the College, giving
the names of the officers and trustees, number of students,
and every thing which they may think necessary to promote
the cause of education.
Sec. 7. Be it enacted, That a thorough and liberal course
of instruction shall be given as at any College in this State,
and in addition to the usual course of English, Classical and
scientific branches at other institutions of learning, scientific
agriculture, horticulture and orcharding shall be both theo¬
retically and practically taught, and such of the Mechanic
Arts as may be deemed important to the cause of general im¬
provement, and the Trustees or Faculty may have, the priv¬
ilege of making such arrangements with students as may
enable any number of them to pay their expenses or any
part of them, while in the Institution by their labor.
Sec. 8. Be it enacted, That the Faculty and Trustees shall
have full power and authority to grant all such Literary hon¬
ors and degrees, as are usually granted at other Institutions of
learning in this State or the United States, and in testimony
of such grant, to give suitable diplomas under their seal and
the signatures of the President and Secretary of the Board,
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which diplomas shall entitle their possessors respectively, to
nil the privileges and immunities which either by usage or
statue, are allowed to possessors of similar diplomas from
other institutions of learning.
Sec. 9. Be it enacted, That the said Franklin College may
be established at any place in Tennessee which the Trustees
may select, and that so soon as the location shall be made,
they may appoint as many agents as they may think suitable,
to travel and lecture, explain the objects of the Institution,
and perform such other service as the Trustees may think best
calculated to advance the interest of the College.
Sec. 10. Be it enacted, That the three Trustees first named
in this act, shall have authority to call a meeting of the
Board as soon as practicable, to make arrangements for the
establishments of the College.
D. L. BARRINGER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. M. ANDERSON,
Passed January, 30th, 1844, Speaker of the Senate.
TRUSTEES.
A. Ewing,
J. W. Simpson,
T. Fanning,
B. Embry,
David King,
J. A. Gardner,
Beverly Nelson,
Thomas Martin,
Jno. S. Claybrook,
D. G. Ligon.
FACULTY.
President and Professor of Moral and Intel¬
lectual Philosophy, Agriculture and Horticulture.
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Professor of Ancient Languages.
Professor of Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy
and Botany.
Professor of Music.
Tutor.
Jas. H. Foster,
Geo. W. Martin,
J. R. Wilson,
E. Trabue,
Jno. Shelby,
T. McGavock,
T. Vaughan,
J. W. Richardson,
W. H. Wharton,
Edmund Dillahunty,
PLAN OF FRANKLIN COLLEGE,
Inasmuch as the system of Education in Franklin College,
is professedly new in many very important features, a few
brief details will not be out of place.
The Trustees and Facuity, concur most heartily in the sen¬
timent, that education shouldadapt itself to the whole man,
and that no one is truly educated unless his Physical, Intellect¬
ual, and Moral powers, are developed inperfect harmony with
each other, and the laws of nature. Great Physical, Intellect¬
ual, or Moral strength, alone, will not make a useful citizen.
Physical culture alone, makes a mere animal; intellectual cul¬
ture alone, may give its possessor sharp and dangerous weap¬
ons, but rarely gives discretion; and moral training, to the neg¬
lect of the other, will most likely induce superstition, and
constitute imbecile babes, entirely unsuited to society.
Man is the most complicated and wonderful piece of me¬
chanism, in all the Creator's vast dominions, and unless every
part is perfectly developed and kept in complete order by pro¬
per exercise, the whole machinery will move imperfectly.
The powers of body and mind sympathize with each other,
and in order that man may accomplish the purposes of his
creation, every part must perform its own proper function.
Education implies a drawing out, developing, or disciplining
the man,—the whole man; but it is a strange and unnatural
conclusion of the world, to suppose it consists in crowding
the mind with indigested words. To be sure, words are the
representatives of ideas, but it is as important to have a
healthful intellect, and the proper kind of words, to gain true
knowledge, as it is to possess a sound digestive apparatus, and
receive suitable aliment, that the body may receive its wont¬
ed strength.
A strong and healthfm mind cannot exist without a strong
and healthful body; and even mental derangement cannot
occur while the powers of the body all perform their- proper
functions.
Therefore, with a view of contributing, at least a mite to
the accomplishment of the great objects of man's creation,
Franklin College has been established with a system which
naturally divides itself into three departments, viz: Physical,
Intellectual and Moral Education. Each will be treated sep¬
arately.
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
The phrase "Physical education" or "Manual labor," is, un¬
fortunately, offensive to a large portion of the human family;
but there is no substantial reason for the existence of such a
pernicious prejudice. The cultivation of the earth was a
chief object of man's creation, and when he properly appre¬
ciates Physical culture, he "reflects back" the image of his
Maker in an eminent degree. Negligence of this is the open
and downward road to ignorance, and poverty in wordly,
mental, and spiritual stores, and finally, to the deepest degra¬
dation and annihilation. Indolence, and luxury, prostrated
Rome—the proud mistress of the world, in the dust, and the
same inactivity, with its consequent ignorance, has blotted
from the annals of the world, nations past numbering. It has
buried and is burying in shades of eternal night, the once for¬
midable tribes of North American Indians, and it has done,
and is doing more injury to American youth than all other
enemies. In proportion as man neglects his physical health
as a general rule, his mind becomes feeble and his soul de¬
praved. Indolence and intemperate eating are the two for¬
midable enemies which multiply disease at such a frightful
rate, paralyse the intellect, and fearfully, shorten the days of
man on earth.
Proper regard to the laws of physical life, in rearing and
educating youth, will do more to restore man back to his
last estate than all other agents.
With these views we have projected Franklin College, and
now offer to the consideration of the public, a system of edu¬
cation, which proposes to develope and train the whole man.
Objectors may say, Physical labor has not been successful
in institutions of learning that have been attempted in the
United States, and judging the future by the past, we must an¬
ticipate a failure in Franklin College. True, there have been
failures, but even the Copernican system of astronomy strug¬
gled through tedious centuries before it gained respect; New¬
ton's discoveries had few friends for ages; and Hervey was
sadly disappointed in offering his discoveries to the world; but
atthis day, no one of intelligence, controverts these grand
systems.
Agricultural education after encountering almost insuper¬
able difficulties, has gloriously triumphed in some of the most
important sections of Europe. Professorships have been es¬
tablished in the oldest and best universities.
Americans say "the theory is right," but some pseudo philo¬
sophers who are wedded to systems of darker days, deny its
practicability. Strange indeed, to conclude a good theory in
an intelligent community, cannot be put into successful prac¬
tice. There are substantial reasons which have worked the
downfall of manual labor schools, which cannot be predicated
of Franklin College.
1st. There has been no science or scientific man connected
with any department of labor in schools of this character
hitherto established. Recently, science has worked wonders
in Agriculture and the Mechanic arts, and it is now obvious,
no industrial art can be successfully pursued without it, and
yet day is just dawning on the subject. Geology, Botany,
Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, and more especially Gal¬
vanism and Electricity are yet to open stores to the world, as
astonishing as they will be profitable. It must not be forgot¬
ten that laboring—-practical men have made the most valua¬
ble discoveries in every clime, and that scientific mechanics,
farmers and gardeners, operate in nature's true workshops,
and in laboratories that will admit of the failure of no expe¬
riments. Let this impression be made, and labor is no more a
degradation.
2nd. Let students once know that exercise under the rays
of the life giving and life perpetuating sun, and in the pure
air is indispensible to health, long life, and a vigorous intellect
and so far from being a punishment, it will be pursued with
the greatest pleasure.
3d. Let students know that they can have the entire prof¬
its of their labor, and by this means, the destitute can supply
themselves with the requisites of living and rich stores of
knowledge; and the power to labor will be considered the best
fortune of man. Wealth ninety-nine times out of a hundred
proves a curse instead of a blessing to youths. Mos.t of the
children of the wealthy, are trained up in idleness, and con¬
sequently with feeble bodies and minds, and few possess ener¬
gy to acquire a respectable education, and, perhaps, fewer are
qualified to manage property. A sound body is worth incal¬
culably more than the largest worldly fortune to any one, and
the poor who are willing to work for their living, and can with
this labor, find means of educating themselves, are infinitely
richer than the unfortunate sons of fortune.
Never can the people—the whole people, be educated till a
self-supporting and self-perpetuating system prevails. There
is but one kind of capital in the universe which can make ed¬
ucation general, and that is physical and intellectual labor
united. Man is not all body, mind, or soul, and the proper de-
velopement of the latter two depends greatly on the devel-
opement of the first. Six hours in the day to labor, six to
study, eight to sleep, and four for recreation and amusement,
will, under a properly regulated system, give all youths who.
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are acquainted with business, and capable of energetic efiort.
the means of becoming well educated. The divisions ol
time in the College, however, will vary as circumstances re¬
quire.
With these postulata before us, we have established a
College, in which we have introduced, and will introduce as
many branches of industry as we can make available, in the
developement of the body and mind, the preservation of
health, the acquisition of the most useful information, and the
means of defraying expenses. Every department of labor
is, and will be managed by the Professors, and men eminent¬
ly qualified. Each student is allowed to select his own occu¬
pation, and after a reasonable allowance to instructors, all
will receive the benefits of their labor. Those who lack funds
may have to employ from a third to half of the day to defray
expenses; but they will still have enough time for study to
acquire a thorough education in a few years. At least as
much, and perhaps more time is appropriated to books, than
at any other College of the country.
SCHOLASTIC DEPARTMENT.
It is very difficult to separate Intellectual from Physical
and Moral education, and therefore, the terms will be used
only to express the relative bearing of each.
We do not understand education to imply mere acquisi¬
tions of knowledge, as before suggested, but it is the devel¬
opement and training of all the powers of man, in connection
with intellectual acquisitions. It is exceedingly unfortunate
that learning has not generally been considered practical.
Young men have attended College as a kind of servitude or
punishment, from which it is their chief study to be freed, in
order to enter some practical and useful pursuit. Hence,
there is generally little or no attachment to institutions of
learning, or their managers. On the contrary, we wish to
impress upon students the idea, that when they enter College,
they are preparing for the regular business of life, that it js
their deepest interest to devote their days to letters,-aud such
offices as will constitute them most happy, and enable them
to confer the greatest benefits on their fellow creatures.
Thus, we wish to make Franklin College a pleasant home
for youth.
Every science, from the English Alphabet, to the grandest
discoveries of the world, will come within the sphere of the
system. That the reader may have something more specific,
we state the following as the main sciences which will have
attention—viz: English Orthography, History, Chirography,
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Geography, English Grammar, the ancient languages, par¬
ticularly Latin, Greek and Hebrew; a thorough course of
Mathematical Science, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry,
Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Agriculture, Horticulture
and the Mechanic Arts.
DIVISION OF SCHOLASTIC DEPARTMENT.
1. The Education of Students intended for Farmers, Garden¬
ers, Mechanics, Merchants and business men in general.—In this
division will be included all the English branches, to the ex¬
clusion of the ancient languages. The full course of Mathe¬
matics, Natural, Intellectual and Moral Science will be
taught. When students finish the course of studies that will
qualify them for Scientific Agricultural, Horticultural, Me¬
chanical or Mercantile pursuits, they will be permitted to
graduate with such honors as" their respective merits will
entitle them, and Diplomas will be given to this effect.
2. The Education of such as intend to devote their lives to
Literary pursuits.—The same studies and exercises will be
pursued in this Department as the former, and in addition to
the English and scientific branches, the ancient languages
will be taught. When a student finishes the full course in
both divisions, he will be permitted to graduate as A. B., and
if he devote himself to Literature, and conduct himself as be¬
comes a gentleman three years longer, the degree of Master
of Arts, after examination, or satisfactory evidence of his
progress in science, will be conferred upon him. No one
will be suffered to graduate as A.B. or A.M., who does not
make himself practically acquainted with some pursuit of
industry, by which a man in destitute circumstances can gain
a support.
MORAL DEPARTMENT.
Being fully persuaded that without an elevated standard of
morality, no Institution can be a permanent blessing to society,
and that the Sacred Scriptures constitute the only true code of
morals, the Holy Bible will be studied by all the students.
While we deprecate sectarian speculations, we are satisfied
just as students or communities yield their understanding and
hearts to the wholesome principles of revelation, government
will be easy, and kind feelings will have a controlling influ¬
ence. The Bible is preferred to any other book, on account of
its weight of authority in history, its geography and chronol¬
ogy, and above all, on account of its entire freedom from
error, and its fullness on every point that interests man. No
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•profane and immoral student shall be suffered to graduate
with the honors of the College.
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS INTO COLLEGE.
1. No student will be received for a less time than one term
of ten months, or forty-two weeks, or from time of entering to
close of year, and those who enter within two months of the
opening of the session, will pay for all the year. If entries
are made after the expiration of two months, charges will be
made from the time of matriculating to close of collegiate
year.
2. Before students will be received, theVFaculty must have
evidence of good moral character, and the advance fees must
be paid, or in cases of destitute young men, who expect to pay
by their labor, satisfactory notes will be received.
The charges are—For boarding, rooms and fire wood
per session of 42 weeks, $60
Tuition from 20 to 40
Matriculation, 5
Fee for Music, 5
" for Washing, 8
There are no other charges unless by agreement, and the
expenses are half payable in advance, and the balance will
be due the 1st of June; interests will be required if payments
be delayed. The College year commences with the first of
January, and continues without vacation ten months, or forty
two weeks.
THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE.
The Faculty consists of a President, the Professors and
Tutors. When regularly convened, a majority shall consti¬
tute a quorum to do business. All matters of important
business shall be decided by vote, but the President will not
vote except when there is a tie. It shall be his duty to call
meetings of the Faculty, as often as in his judgment circum¬
stances require, and he shall see that the laws of the Institu¬
tion are executed, and every member of the Faculty shall
exert himself to preserve order in the Institution.
OF THE PRESIDENT.
The President is ex officio President of the board of Trustees
and of the Faculty. He has a right to be present in the pri-
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vate recitations of all classes, preside in all the meetings and
examinations, and confer all degrees.
OF THE PROFESSORS.
The Professors shall reside in the College edifice, diet with
the students, and instruct and otherwise aid students in the
every department.
They shall visit the students rooms as often as necessity re¬
quires, and see that neatness be observed, and that perfect
order prevail. In the event of the President's sickness or
absence, the senior Professor shall convene and preside in the
Faculty, and perform such other duties as devolve upon the
President.
i OF CLASSES.
The Juvenile Class will be composed of such students as
are engaged in the first principles of English, as Spelling,
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar,. Geography,
History, study of the Scriptures and Music. Students in this
class will be expected to spend most of their time with a
teacher.
The Preparatory Class.
Latin.—The studies are Latin Grammar and Exercises,
Latin Reader, Caesar and Ovid.
  Greek.—Grammar, Jacob's Greek Reader, Xenophon's An¬
abasis. and Greek Exercises.
Mathematics.—Arithmetic, and Algebra, to Quadratic Equa¬
tions.
History.—English Compositions, Sacred Literature, Music,
and Ancient Geography.
Freshman Class.
Latin.—Virgil, Livy, Thales, Guide for writing Latin, and
Latin Compositions.
' Greek.—Graeca Majora, Historians and Orators, Greek
Exercises and Compositions, Eschenburg's Manual.
Mathematics..—Finish Algebra, Bonnycastle or Young en¬
tire, and six books in Geometry, Legendre.
English.—Compositions, History, sacred and profane, An¬
cient Geography and Botany—Artificial system, Mrs. Lin-
colns and Eatons, and Music.
Sophomore Class.
Latin.—Horace, Odes, Episodes and Art of Poetry, Juvenal,
Exercises in Latin, and Latin Compositions, prose and verse,
Munk's Metres.
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Greek.—Philosophical and Critical Extracts, Greek Exer¬
cises and Compositions, Eschenburg's Manual.
Mathematics—Geometry completed, Application of Alge¬
bra to Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Day's
Analytical Geometry, Davies' Bridges Conic Sections, Men¬
suration, Bonnycastle, Surveying.
Elements of Chemistry.—Gray's Botany, Natural Method,
Beck, English Criticism, Sacred Literature, and Music.
Junior Class.
Latin.—Cicero De Oratori, Tacitus, Select Orations of
Cicero, Exercises in Latin, Compositions, prose and verse.
Greek.—Grrnca Majora, 2 vol., Epic and Tragic Poetry,
Greek Exercises and Compositions, Eschenburg's Manual.
Mathematics.—Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Natural
Philosophy, Olmstead, Astronomy, Olmstead.
Geology, commenced.—Lyell's Elements, for Text Book, re¬
ference, Lyell's Principles, Murchison, Goldfuss, Bakewell,
De La Bache and Buckland, Chemistry continued, English
Criticism, Declamation, Sacred Literature and Music.
Senior Class.
Latin.—Terence, Latin Composition.
Greek.—iEschines, or Demosthenes De Carona, Greek Com¬
positions, Eschenburg's Manual, Lectures on Greek and Latin
Literature.
Mathematics.—Differential and Integral Calculus, Descrip¬
tive Geometry, Shades, Shadows and Perspective.
Mineralogy.—Dana for text book, reference, Shepherd and
Philips, Geology and Chemistry continued.
Mental and Moral Philosophy.—Rhetoric, Logic, Whately,
Political Economy, Sacred History and Music.
Students intending not to take a classical course, will study
in some one of these classes, and it is to be hoped, no one
who does not wish to take a regular course, either in the Eng¬
lish or Classical department, or both, will enter the Institution.
OF STUDY.
From seven to nine hours in the day will be appropriated to
study.
In studying hours, students are required to remain in their
rooms, except by special permission.
Those who from negligence or want of capacity, cannot
maintain a respectable stand in their classes, will be put into
classes next below them.
Students who excel their classes, will be promoted to the
classes next in advance.
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Every one will be required to devote himself diligently in
his studies, and conform to all the regulations of the Faculty,
OF DECLAMATION.
There will be daily exercises in the chapel in public speak¬
ing. It will be a matter of indifference whether students
memorise pieces for this purpose, or deliver extemporaneous
addresses.
Nothing of a ludicrous, obscene, personal or disrepectful
character will be suffered to be spoken.
Special attention will be paid to the style of composition
and delivery.
OF MUSIC.
The science of Music will be taught as a regular branch
of study. The Faculty and Trustees are satisfied it affords
mental training, equal to any other science; that Vocal Music
contributes to the developement of many important organs of
the body, is conducive of health, and moreover, that it is
God's appointed means to regulate the passions and cultivate
the affections—and therefore, no science is deemed of greater
importance. Students wishing to learn Instrumental Music,
can do so, but an extra fee will be charged for instruction.
OF GOVERNMENT.
It is the object of the Faculty to govern by moral means,
and no pains will be spared to accomplish this desirable ob¬
ject. The nobler powers of students will be addressed, and
persuasion, instead of physical force, will be the grand means
employed.
OF ORDER.
Perfect order will be expected from all students. No one
will be allowed to go faster than a walk in the College edifice,
and noise will not be tolerated at any time. No student will
be suffered to sing, or play on a musical instrument, visit or
hold conversation with another during studying hours.
All will walk in procession to the Dining Hall, conform to
all the regulations of the Faculty while there, and leave the
room in the same manner. Immediately upon the ringing of
the bell for study, or any other requirement, each student will
start in the performance of duty.
Those who are absent from duty will make satisfactory
apologies, and in default thereof, they will come under the
censure of the Faculty.
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PUNISHMENTS.
The administration of the government of the College shall
he as nearly parental as possible, and always just and
equitable.
For minor offences a private admonition will be adminis¬
tered.
For a repetition, or a more aggravated offence, an admoni¬
tion will be administered before the class.
For offences of sufficient magnitude, an admonition before
the Faculty and students.
In rare cases, corporeal punishment will be administered on
younger students, but always after a full investigation of the
offence. This kind of punishment, however, will be resorted
to only in extreme cases.
Students guilty of carrying weapons, lying, drunkenness,
stealing, disrepect to authority, profanity, and revelry of any
description will not be esteemed worthy to remain at the
institution.
An acknowledgment, and a promise of amendment, will
always be expected.
When, in the estimation of the Faculty, the welfare of the
Institution requires it, students will be suspended for a speci¬
fied period, or indefinitely, as the offence demands.
All the foregoing punishments will be of a disciplinary
character, with a view, ultimately, of reforming offenders.
When all hopes of reformation fail, students will be exclud¬
ed from the College, but never without the decision of the
Trustees as well as the Faculty.
Those suspended for a definite period, may return at the
appointed time, and if the acknowledgement is satisfactory,
they will be received on trial, otherwise, they will be suspend¬
ed indefinitely, or expelled.
Those suspended indefinitely, may have the liberty of mak¬
ing application through their friends for re-admission into the
College, and after confession, and a solemn pledge of reform¬
ation, if the Faculty be unanimous, they will be received on
trial.
All suspended students failing to return as before prescribed,
will be expelled at the end of the term, and so reported in the
annual Catalogue.
Offences committed by students while absent from College,
will come as much under the cognizance of the Faculty, as if
committed in the edifice.
OF DRESS.
Students will be required to dress plainly, neatly and cheap-
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ly. The College uniform for all public occasions is a gray
single-breasted frock coat, trimmed with black; pants of the
same color, with straps, and a cloth cap. Those who dress in
a slovenly manner, and observe not that cleanliness so neces¬
sary to health, will be dealt with as transgressors.
Students will black their own shoes, bring their own water,
make their own fires and be required always to have their
rooms in order. No one shall have a servant to wait upon him.
CARE OF PROPERTY.
Students will pay for all injury done to the buildings or
other property of the establishment. Each is to keep and
have his room in as good order as he found it, and pay all
charges before he is allowed to take any part of his property
from his room. When an injury is done to the property, and
it cannot be ascertained who did it, the body of the students
shall pay for it.
FURNISHING ROOMS.
Students will furnish their own rooms. The most import¬
ant articles are, a bedstead, mattress, a bolster, two pair of
sheets, and covering, two chairs, fire irons, shovel and tongs,
a table, looking-glass, water can, wash basin, towels, clothes
brush, shoe brushes and tooth brushes. This is the furniture
for two students, and the cost should not exceed $25.
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.
The Holy Scriptures will be read and prayers offered in the
Chapel morning and evening. Divine service will be per¬
formed publicly on Lord's day.
Students may have the liberty of holding private meetings
for the purpose of investigating the scriptures, prayers and
exhortations. Irreverence, or disrespect to religious exercises
will be regarded as high offences. No studies but those of a
moral character will be permitted on the Lord's day, and they
shall always be directed by the Faculty.
VISITING DAYS.
One day in each month will be appropriated for students
to visit their friends, and attend to business out of the College.
Any one who remains longer than the specified time, without
a satisfactory reason, will be prohibited from the privileges
of the next visiting day.
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LIBRARY.
Students will have the liberty of using books out of the
College Library, by paying to the Librarian two dollars per
annum. The funds thus accruing, will be appropriated to the
purchase of journals, books, &c., for the use of the Institution.
The Library will be open two days in the week, and no stu¬
dent will be allowed to take more than one quarto, or two
octavo volumes at once. Students will pay for all injuries
done to books, and if they lose one of a series, they shall pay
for and take the whole set.
OF VACATIONS.
There will be but one vacation in the year. Students from
a distance can have the privilege of remaining in the Insti¬
tution for the purpose of pursuing their studies or labor, under
such regulations as may be prescribed by the Faculty.
A Geological tour will be taken in each vacation, and stu¬
dents before graduating, will be required to spend at least
one vacation in making themselves familiar with the volume
of nature.
One or more of the Faculty will always conduct the ex¬
plorations.
DISMISSIONS.
As no student will be received for a shorter period than
from the time of entering to the close of the year, so no one
will have the liberty of withdrawing without the permission
of the Faculty. When the Faculty become convinced the
student's health requires a change, or there is other sufficient
cause why he should withdraw, they will give a certificate to
this effect, and make a record of the same iir the College
Journal.
COLLEGE RECORDS AND REPORTS.
When a student enters College, his name is recorded in a
journal kept for that purpose, with his age and residence.
A faithful record is made every month of each student's
studies, deportment, punctuality &c., and will be regularly
sent to parents and guardians.
Each student is permitted to see his own character, but will
not be suffered to examine the character of a fellow student.
ORDER OF PHYSICAL DEPARTMENT.
When a student or students wish to introduce a branch of
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industry, if practicable, a partnership will be formed with the
proprietors.
In each mechanical branch, one person shall be considered
Foreman, to whose directions all others, in the same branch,
shall submit.
Labor performed for the benefit of the Institution, will be
charged according to the regular rules of the county, or as
may be agreed upon by the parties.
Apprentices will receive prices in proportion to the value of
their labor, after deducting a reasonable allowance for instruc¬
tion. They will furnish their own tools.
When it is possible, journeymen will form partnership ar¬
rangements with the proprietors, or foremen.
Students who depend upon their labor to defray expenses,
will not be suffered to involve themselves in debt, beyond
their ability to pay in vacation.
Those who wish to study Agriculture or Horticulture as a
science, will make arrangements with the proprietors for suit¬
able lands, by paying reasonable rents, and pledging them¬
selves to cultivate the grounds as the Faculty direct.
In connection with their cultivation, they will be taught
Agriculture, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Botany.
They will furnish their own tools, either by purchase or hire.
Each student shall have a set of books, in which all ex¬
penses and profits shall be recorded. All profits belong to
students.
Students will be recommended to farm or garden together
in small groups, of suitable ages and capacities, from two to
eight individuals.
AMUSEMENTS.
Musical exercises, vocal and instrumental will be encour¬
aged, not only as a useful branch of learning, but also for
recreation and amusement. t
Such gymnastic exercises will also be introduced, as the
Faculty and Trustees may think best calculated to develope,
accomplish, amuse and interest the students.
EXAMINATIONS.
There will be two examinations in each year—the first, at
the middle of the term, will be denominated the semi-annual
examination, and the second will take place at the close of
the term, and will be called the annual examination.
At the semi-annnal examination, students will be examined
in their respective classes, in the presence of the Faculty,
Trustees, and such others as may be invited to attend.
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The same course will be pursued at the annual examination,
except with the candidates for graduation.
Each candidate for graduation will be examined alone be¬
fore the Faculty and Trustees, and no one will be suffered to
graduate unless he shall have finished the full course of study
prescribed, and so conducted himself in a moral point of view
as to give evidence to the Faculty and Trustees, that he will
prove an honor to the Institution.
There will be a recess of two or three weeks from the reg¬
ular College Exercises, immediately after the Semi-anual Ex¬
amination, in making explorations for the purpose of study¬
ing Geology, Botany, &c. All the students will attend these
exercises.
No student under 21 years of age shall be allowed to con¬
tract debts, but by permission of parents, guardians, or the
Faculty of the College. When parents do not furnish cloth¬
ing, all purchases shall be made by the direction of the
Faculty.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two Literary Societies in the College, which
have been organized for the purpose of investigating and dis¬
cussing all subjects which may be considered of an interesting
character. The students are required to join one of the So¬
cieties on entering College.