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CHAPTER I.
Of the Trustees of the College.
1. Seven Trustees, as prescribed by the charter, shall
be necessary to constitute a Board to determine any mat¬
ter relative to the College.
2. The Trustees shall have two stated sessions of their
Board in each year, commencing respectively, on the 2nd
"Wednesday of September, and the 3rd Wednesday of
March. At thes&sessions, all important business, relative
to the College, shall be transacted.
3. The officers of the Board are, the President, Secre¬
tary and Treasurer.
4. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to lieep an ac¬
curate Record, in a bound book, for that purpose, of all
the proceedings of the Board; and perform such other du¬
ties as appertain to his office.
5. When, in the opinion of the President or any two
Trustees, a called session may be necessary for conducting
the Ordinary affairs and business of the College, notice
shall be given by the Secretary to the Trustees in the vi¬
cinity of the College.
6. At each stated session of the Board, it shall be the
duty of the Secretary to read the record of the proceed¬
ings at the previous stated session, and of those at any
subsequent adjourned or called meetings.
7. In order to the faithful and impartial government of
the institution, the Trustees feel themselves obligated to
avoid all ex-parte proceedings in relation to the concerns
of the College. They will listen, in their individual ca-
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pacity, to no complaints of disaffected students against
their instructors; and they will avoid all conversation and
expression of private opinions concerning either the in¬
structors or students, by which they might pledge or com¬
mit themselves on subjects liable to come before them in
their official capacity; and when called upon to act offi¬
cially, they will mutually regard the individual opinions,,
expressed in the Board, as strictly confidential.
8. The Trustees deem it their duty to be present at all
public examinations and exhibitions of the students; and
to attend at the College on such other occasions as the in¬
terests of the institution may require.
CHAPTER IT.
Of the Officers of the College.
1. The officers of the College, that are to administer
its government, and conduct its instruction are, the Presi¬
dent, Professors and Tutors; who shall be styled the Fac¬
ulty of the College.
2. They are responsible to the Trustees for the full exe¬
cution of the laws of the institution, and for the suitable
and faithful instruction of the students.
3. They are not to engage in any pursuit or occupation
that will interfere with the stated and punctual discharge
of their official duties, unless with the consent of the Board
of Trustees.
4. To the President is committed the general superin¬
tendence of the interests and reputation of the institution;
which he is bound to promote and maintain by every exer¬
tion in his power.
*• 5. The President shall attend to the instruction of the
Senior and other classes, in such branches as he, in con¬
nection with the Faculty, shall deem most conducive to
the interests of the College.
6. He has a right to be present at the recitation of any
class in the institution, as often as he may think proper;
to conduct the recitation himself, if he choose; and to
give such general directions as he may deem necessary.
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7. He is to see that prayers are offered in the Chapel
with the students every morningand evening, and is to con¬
duct the religious instruction of the students in such a
manner as is prescribed in the laws of the College.
8. He is ex-officio President of the Faculty; istopre-
side at all the examinations, exhibitions, and commence¬
ments; and to confer all degrees.
9. The Professors and Tutors shall take such parts in
the instruction of the classes, and shall attend to such other
duties as are assigned by vote of the Faculty..
10. It shall be the duty of the Professors and Tutors
to attend the religious exercises in the Chapel.
11. The Fa.culty shall meet once a week, under the di¬
rection of the President. All questions are to be decided
by vote; but, when, the members are equally divided, the
opinion of the President shall decide.
12. It shall be the duty of each officer to lay before
the Faculty, at their regular meetings, a written state¬
ment of the progress, punctuality, and conduct of each
member of the class or classes under his immediate in¬
struction; to be filed with the records of the Faculty.
13. The Faculty shall keep a book of Records, and ap¬
point a Clerk, who shall enter in it a fair statement of their
transactions; which book the Clerk shall lay before the
Trustees, at each of their stated sessions.
14. It is the duty of the Faculty, after careful examin¬
ation, to decide on the qualifications of every candidate
for admission into College, or to an advanced standing.—
If doubts arise as to the moral qualifications of any appli¬
cant, the Trustees shall be consulted, and their concur¬
rence shall be necessary to his admission.
The Faculty shall also have power to direct the course
of study; to appoint the times and places of recitation;
to exempt students, on proper occasions, from the obliga¬
tions of some of the laws; and to adopt any regulations
and measures for the government of the College, which
they may judge expedient; Provided, these be not con¬
trary to its laws.
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15. It shall be the duty of the Professors to deliver
lectures on those subjects which require illustration, and
at such periods in the College course as the Faculty shall
judge most conducive to the improvement of the class.
16. It shall be the duty of the Faculty to visit the
rooms of the students at such times, and as often as they
may think proper; they shall individually and collective¬
ly notice all violations of the laws, and see that they are
strictly observed; and shall have power to adopt such mi¬
nor regulations as, in their opinion, will tend to enforce
their observance. It shall also be the duty of the Faculty
diligently to inspect and watch over the manners and be¬
havior of the students, and in all proper methods, by ex¬
ample and precept, to recommend to them a virtuous and
blameless life, and a diligent attention to the public and
private duties of religion.
CHAPTER III.
Of the Course of Study.
1. There shall be established in the College, four class¬
es, under the usual distinctions of Freshman, Sophomore,
Junior, and Senior.
2. Candidates for admission to the Freshman class, shall
sustain an examination in Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Greek
Reader, Arithmetic, English Grammar, and Geography.
Course of Study.
Freshman Crass Winter Session.
Sallust; Graeca Majora, begun; Algebra, begun; La¬
tin Translations or Composition and Declamation alter¬
nately once a fortnight, during the year.
Summer Session.
Livy; Graeca Majora, continued; Algebra, finished.
Sophomore Class. — Winter Session.
Horace; Euclid, six books; Day's Mathematics, Plane
Trigonometry, and Mensuration.
Summer Session.
Cicero de Oratore; Graeca Majors, continued; Day's
Mathematics, Surveying, &c., finished.
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Junior Class . — Winter Session.
Conic Sections; Tacitus; Blair's Lectures; Enfield's
Philosophy, commenced; Chemistry, Mineralogy, and
Geology.
Summer Session.
Grseca Majora; Enfield's Natural Philosophy; Astron¬
omy; Paley's Moral Philosophy; Hedge's Logic; Tyt-
ler's History.
Senior Class—Winter Session.
Graeca Majora, concluded; Vattel's Law of Nations;
Stewart's Mental Philosophy; Payne's Elements of Men¬
tal and Moral Science.
Summer Session.
Paley's Natural Theology; Paley's Evidences of Chris¬
tianity; Political Economy, the Greek Testament, or
French language, at the option of-the student; such re¬
views of Greek, Latin, and other branches, as the Facul¬
ty deem requisite. Compositions especially assigned them
for the exhibition on commencement day.
Each class shall read composition, and declaim once in
three weeks or oftener; the Senior class being required
to compose their own declamations.
CHAPTER IV.
Of Admission and General Order.
1. Any student coming from another chartered Col¬
lege, or from any University, must, in order to his ad¬
mission, produce satisfactory evidence that he is under no
censure from the government of the institution which he
has left.
2. Every candidate for admission shall produce satis¬
factory evidence of good moral character. But, when
any one, ignorant of this requisition, applies, and nothing
appears to his prejudice, he may be admitted on proba¬
tion.
3. Every applicant, who sustains an examination on
the Course of Study prescribed for the Preparatory school,
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or what may be deemed equivalent, shall be admitted into
the Freshman Class.
4. Every student shall, on his admission to the College,
produce to the President or his proper instructor, a certi¬
ficate from the Treasurer, that he has paid the sum requi¬
red for Tuition and Boarding, for a session. Provided,
that when one half, or more than one half a session shall
have expired before such student is admitted, he shall be
charged only for one half session. But when sickness
or any other providential calamity prevents the student
from continuing through the session, the Trustees will re¬
fund such an amount as they may deem equitable and pro¬
per; in all other cases the Boarding and Tuition fees shall
be forfeited.
5. Before a student can have his name entered on the
College roll, he must, in the presence of the Faculty and
students, answer, in the affirmative, the following inter¬
rogations, namely: Have you read and understood the
laws of this institution? Do you acknowledge your obli¬
gation to obey them? After this, the student shall be
required to subscribe the following form, to be kept in a
book for that purpose, by the Faculty, namely: "W.E.,
whose names are underwritten, do declare, that we acqui¬
esce in the laws of this institution, and acknowledge our
obligation to obey them."
6. Every student, on being thus admitted, shall have
his name registered on the College Book, and be entitled
to a certificate.
7. Every student, after his regular admission, shall be
considered a member of the College, until he may have
taken a degree—been dismissed in disgrace—withdrawn
by advice, or been honorably discharged with the follow¬
ing certificate:
"X certify that A. B. was honorably discharged from
East Tennessee College on the day of .
Clerk of the Faculty."
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Such discharge may be accompanied with a recommen¬
datory note, by the President and Professors.
8. Every person, on becoming a fftember of the insti¬
tution, shall be required to possess, at all times, a correct
copy of the Laws of the College; and no plea of ignor¬
ance shall be admissible in extenuation of any neglect to
comply with their requisitions.
J9. No student shall pass from a lower into a higher class,
until his examination on all the studies of the lower class
shall have been approved.
10. No student shall enter an advanced class unless hi®
examination, before the Faculty, on all the studies com¬
pleted by that class, be deemed satisfactory.
11. A limited number of young men may be allowed
tuition gratuitously, or be otherwise assisted, on exhibit¬
ing satisfactory testimony of indigence, talent, and good
character. The number to be fixed, for each session, by
the Trustees* -
12. The stated hours for College exercises shall be, in
1he Summer session, from half past 8 o'clock, A. M. until
12, and from 2, P. M. until 5, with the exception of Sat¬
urday, which shall be allowed to the students for necessary
avocations and recreation. There shall, likewise, be a
weekly recitation from the Bible on the Sabbath, at such
time as the Faculty may appoint, unless superceded by
other religious exercises. After morning prayers, the
Faculty may grant such liberties of retirement for study,
until the remaining recitations and evening prayers, as
they judge expedient. The hours of required study, be¬
side those already specified, shall be from sun-rise until
breakfast, and from 7 P. M. until retirement for rest;
but in the winter session, the exercises shall commence
at 9 A. M. and close at 4i P. M.; during which time
the students shall not allow themselves to be seen abroad,,
unless urged by some necessity, of which they shall be
ready lo give an account to any officer or Trustee of the
College, who ma^* observe them; but they shall diligently
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apply themselves to study in their proper places of retire¬
ment,
13. No Declamation shall ever be pronounced which
shall not previously have been approved by the President,
or some one of the Faculty.
14. For every case of absence or tardiness at recitation,
absence from prayers, church, or any prescribed duty,
each student shall offer his excuse as soon as practicable.
The excuse, if any be given, and the absence or tardiness,
shall be registered for the consideration of the Faculty,
at their stated meeting. Absence from any prescribed
duty or exercise, twelve times, without excuse satisfacto¬
ry to the Faculty, forfeits the standing of a student, and
shall render him liable to any minor punishment.
15. No exercise of the College, appointed by the Trus¬
tees or by all or any one of the Faculty, shall be neglect¬
ed by any student.
16. The members of the Preparatory School shall be
subject to the rules and regulations of the College; but if
in any case a deviation may be necessary, the Faculty
shall have power to make such arrangements as in their
opinion circumstances require.
chapter y.
Of Examinations, Commencement, and Degrees.
1. At the close of every session, the students of each
class shall be subject to a public examination in all the
branches to which they shall have attended during that
session. And any student whose examination is not ap¬
proved, being deficient in any College exercise, may be
required to make amends for his deficiency, by extraor¬
dinary application and recitation, at a time appointed by
his instructors. But if, at the close of the Summer ses¬
sion, after an examination on the branches in which he
was deficient, his acquirements shall still be found inade¬
quate, he shall not be allowed to advance with his class.
2. These examinations shall be conducted in the most
thorough and exact manner, so as to exhibit, as far as pos-
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ssible, to the Guardians of the institution, the evidence of
the diligence and acquirements of each student.
3. Any student absenting himself from any examina¬
tion, without leave of the Faculty, subjects himself to a
loss of .standing.
4. The members of the Senior class, who shall have
completed the course prescribed for the institution, and
who present themselves as candidates for the degree of
Bachelor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, shall be criti¬
cally examined on the 4th Wednesday in August, in the
various branches of Literature and Science, of the Col¬
lege course, for the purpose of exhibiting their accuracy
and proficiency; and, if found well versed in them, shall
be recommended by the Faculty to the Trustees, at. their
Fall session, as approved candidates Jbr the Bachelor's de¬
gree.
5. Those students whose examination has been appro¬
ved, shall be exempted from College duties until com¬
mencement day>—when, before the Baccalaureate shall be
conferred on them, they shall perform, in public, such ex¬
ercises as the Faculty may have assigned them for the
day.
6. All exercises assigned for commencement, or any
other public occasion, must be presented to the President
for approbation and revisal, at least twelve days previous
to the performance.
7. If any student shall speak an exercise, or part of an
exercise, which has not been approved by the President,
his degree shall b.e withheld.
8. No student of the College shall be admitted to the
honor of the first degree, unless he shall have produced
to the President a certificate from the Treasurer, that his
bills are paid, and shall have performed the exercise assign¬
ed him by the Faculty for commencement.
9. The commencement shall be on the 2nd Wednesday
of September annually; at which the students shall per¬
form the exercises appointed them for that day.
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r 10. All degrees shall be conferred publicly, by the
President, on commencement day.
11. Each candidate, before his degree shall be confer¬
red, is required to pay to the Treasurer, for the President
of the College, the sum of five dollars.
12. Every Bachelor in the third year after his first de¬
gree, if he shall have sustained u fair character, and shall
perform such exercises as may be assigned him, shall be
entitled to the degree of Master of Arts, for which he
shall pay the same perquisite as for the first degree.
13. Every person who has received a degree from any
other chartered College, or from any University, may,
with the approbation of the Trustees and Faculty, be ad¬
mitted to the same, upon payment of the customary fee.
14. JHonnrary degrees may be conferred by the Board
of Trustees, on individuals in the community, of distin¬
guished merit;' but such degrees, being merely honorary,
shall be free of all charge.
15. Every person, after havingreceived a degree, shall,
on presenting a proper form of Diploma, upon parchment,
be entitled to have it signed by the President and Secreta¬
ry, and to have the College seal annexed.
chapter vi.
Of Punishments. ,
1. The administration of the government of this Col¬
lege shall ever be mild and equitable, and as nearly paren¬
tal as the nature of the establishment will admit. The
reformation of the offender shall be steadily and judicious¬
ly aimed at, as far as practicable; and no severe or dis¬
graceful penalty shall be awarded, except when the para¬
mount interests of the institution shall demand it, or when
the flagitious character of the offence shall render it in¬
dispensable.
2. The punishments of the institution being wholly
of a moral kind, and addressed to the sense of duty, and
the principles of honor, comprise two classes, the major
and the minor punishments.
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■3. In the minor punishments are included, confession,
private admonition or reprehension of a student by an of¬
ficer of the institution; admonition before the Faculty
of the College; public admonition or reprehension in-the
presence of the students; putting an offender in a state of
probation and private dismission.
4. The major punishments are, public dismission,, rus¬
tication, and expulsion. In cases of rustication, the stu¬
dent shall leave College for a time not less than two, nor
more than six months.
5. The minor punishments shall be inflicted by the
Faculty; the major, in all cases, by the Board of Trus¬
tees.
6. When, in the opinion of the Faculty, an offence is
committed, rendering the offender liable, to any of the
major punishments, it shall be the duty of the President,
who, after giving due notice to the student so offending,
to call a session of the Board of Trustees; where he shall
have a fair and impartial hearing; and, if found guilty,
shall be subject to the punishment which the laws of the
institution, in such cases, have provided.
CHAPTER VII.
Of Religions Duty, Moral Conduct, and Misde¬
meanor's.
1. The students are to consider themselves, and each
other, as young gentlemen, associated for the purposes of
mutual improvement; and that it is their interest and their
duty to demean themselves accordingly. AM the laws
and regulations of this institution have originated from a
parental solicitude to promote their present comfort and
advancement in knowledge, and their future usefulness
and respectability in society; and they have deliberately
acknowledged their obligation to obey these laws; it is,
therefore, confidently hoped, that few individuals will dis¬
appoint the reasonable expectations of their friends, and
forfeit their title ta the benefits and honors of the institu¬
tion.
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2. As all experience has shewn, that no institution for
education can enjoy permanent prosperity without the in¬
fluence of religion—and as every student is dependent up¬
on Almighty God for his life and faculties, his privileges
and opportunities—it is enjoined upon each one to culti¬
vate a sacred sense of his correspondent obligations, to
make it his habitual endeavor to conduct himself at all
times and in all places, with moral and religious proprie¬
ty, and so to use all his advantages as to answer the great
end of his creation.
3. It is enjoined upon every student to observe the
Lord's Day as sacred to the duties of religion, anil to at¬
tend public worship in the morningand afternoon, at such
Church in town as he may designate at the first ,ofthe"es-
sion—at which place he is to be found during the time of
service on the Sabbath, unless he have leave from the Fac¬
ulty to attend elsewhere. Provided, there be ' reli¬
gious exercises in the Chapel, in which case the students
are required to attend at the College. Students residing
with their parents and guardians, however, are expected
to attend public worship with the family. No student
shall leave the College enclosure on the Sabbath, except
to go to and from Church, unless compelled by such ur¬
gent necessity as shall be satisfactory to the Faculty.
4. The students shall be particularly careful, when the
sacred Scriptures are read and prayers are offered in the
College, to yield an orderly and serious attention to these
duties, as of their own personal concern. Any frivolous
or irreverent conduct, during these exercises, shall be
subject to public admonition, and such further punishment
as the aggravation of the offence may require.
5. The students are required to yield obedience to all
the laws and regulations of thq College, and in speech
and behavior to treat the Instructors vvjth respect and de¬
corum. Any violation of this requirement, or opprobri¬
ous language and behavior towards any member of the
Faculty, shall subject the offender to reprehension, dis*
mission or expulsion.
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6. Any student who shall refuse to appear personally
before an officer of the College, when sent for, who shall
disobey the lawful commands of his instructor, or be in¬
subordinate under the censure and punishment of the Fac¬
ulty, or any one of them, shall be judged guilty of contu¬
macy, and may be admonished, rusticated, or expelled,
according to the aggravation of the offence.
7.. If in the opinion of the Faculty, the scholarship or
general copduct of any student be such, that it does not
appear to comport with the interest of the institution, or
with his own interest to continue him in it, it shall be the
duty of the President to inform his parent or guardian,
that thecontinuance of such student will be inexpedient;
and to permit him to be withdrawn without public cen¬
sure or disgrace. Provided, his parent or guardian be in
the neighborhood of the College; otherwise the President
shall direct the withdrawal of such student.
8. Any student who may be dismissed,, expelled, or
directed to withdraw from College, shall immediately
leave the College grounds, and not afterwards be allowed
to trespass thereon.
9. Students absenting themselves after night from their
rooms, without leave, shall be liable to dismission or ex¬
pulsion.
10. If any student be guilty of perjury, robbery, theft,
forgery, or any other crime for which an infamous pun¬
ishment may be inflicted by the laws of the State, he shall
be expelled.
11. If any student shall possess or exhibit any indecent
picture, or purchase, introduce, or read in College, any
obscene books, or be guilty of lying, profaneness, intem¬
perance, playing at cards or any other unlawful games,
or at any game for a wager, or of other gross immoralties
or impieties, he shall be punished according to the hein-
ousness of the offence, by admonition, suspension, or ex¬
pulsion,
12. If any student shall quarrel with, insult or abuse a;
fellow-student, he shall be admonished.by the Faculty,,
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and give satisfactory assurances of his future peaceable
and orddrfy behavior, or be subjected, according to the
circumstances of the case, to a greater punishment.
13. If any student shall fight a duel, or send or accept
a challenge to fight, a duel, or carry such challenge, or be
a second in a duel, or any wise aid or abet it, or abuse or
ridicule a fellow-student for refusing to fight or be con¬
cerned in a duel, he shall be immediately expelled.
14. No student shall bring or cause to be brought into
College, any distilled or fermented liquors; nor any fire¬
arms or ammunition of any kind; nor a sword, dirk,
sword-cane, or any deadly weapon whatever, upon penal¬
ty of any minor punishment.
15. No student shall, on any occasion, associate with
persons of notoriously bad character, under penalty of ad¬
monition, suspension, or expulsion.
16. Every studentshall preserve order and decorum in
his own room, and shall be responsible for all disorder in
it, unless he give information, when in his power, of the
person or persons from wflom it proceeded.
17. All writing, cutting, or marking upon the walls,
doors, or furniture of the College, is strictly prohibited.
Every student convicted of any one of these offences shall,
besides paying double the amount of damage done to the
property, be subject to any minor punishment.
18. No throwing of stones, chips, snow-balls, &c.
no athletic sports or plays, or noise of any kind shall be
permitted in any part of the College building, or room in
the dormitories, in or near the College yard or dormitory
buildings. Any student so offending, shall be subject to
any of the minor punishments.
19. If any clubs or combinations of the students, shall
at any time take place, either for resisting the authority of
the College, interfering with its government, or for con¬
cealing or executing any mischievous design, every stu¬
dent concerned in such combination, shall be considered
as guilty of the offence which was intended, and be sub¬
ject to any minor or major punishment.^
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' 20. Every student shall be answerable for his moral
conduct, during the several vacations, in the same man¬
ner as in term time.
21. Any student absenting himself at one time more
than two months, from the exercises of his Class, with¬
out leave, shall forfeit his standing, and no longer be re¬
garded a member of College. Nevertheless, on affording
to the Faculty satisfactory explanations,, he may become
a candidate for re-admission.
22. It is to be regretted, that in almost all literary in¬
stitutions, breaches of order and high misdemeanors are
committed by the unworthy few who lurk amongthem un¬
known, and which render necessary the extension, to all,
of processes afflicting to the feelings of those who are con¬
scious of their own correctness, and who are above all
participation in those vicious irregularities. While the
offenders continue unknown, the tarnish of their faults
spreads itself over the worthy also, and confounds all in
common censure. The Trustees are aware that a preju¬
dice prevails too extensively,, afhong the young and inex¬
perienced, that it is dishonorable to bear witness one against
another, and this sentiment is assiduously inculcated by
the unworthy and the vicious. But this loose principle
in the Ethics of school-boy combinations, is unworthy of
mature and regulated minds, and is accordingly condemn¬
ed by the laws of their country, which, in offences with¬
in their cognizance, compel those who have a knowledge
of a fact to disclose it for the purposes of justice, and for
the general good and safety of society.
It is, therefore, ordered, that any student refusing ta
give testimony, when called upon, against anotherstudent,
who is charged with an offence, and then under examin¬
ation for the same, shall be liable to any minor or major
punishment. Provided, that no student shall be com¬
pelled to criminate himself. The rules of evidence in the
courts ol justice shall be adhered to in all trials for offen¬
ces.
23. If any student shall testify falsely against a-studenfc
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on his trial lor any offence, upon conviction thereof he
shall be dismissed.
24. Whereas, the laws of the College are few and gen¬
eral, and cases may occur which are not expressly provi¬
ded for by law; in every* such instance, the delinquent
may be proceeded against according to the nature and cir¬
cumstances of the offence; and be subjected to any minor
or major punishment.
chapter vm.
, Boar ding-Ho use, Rooms, ^c.
1. The strictest order and decorum shalL be observed?
at the boarding-house, and the steward shall bq,permitted
to exercise the same authority for that purpose, as the
head of a private family. The steward, in conjunction
with the Faculty, shall adopt such rules in relation there¬
to, as they shall judge conducive to the order and welfare-
oC the establishment.
2. Students who may stay through the vacation, will
pay in advance to the steward, the amount chargeable for
that period.
3. No student is chargeable with room-rent, but will
be required to repair any damage done to his room, to the
glass, or lock by others, unless he give immediate notice
of the damage-to the Inspector, and of the person orper^
s6ns that may havd done <the same, if in his power; in
which case he is exonerated from personal responsibility.
4. The Faculty shall adopt subh regulations in the as¬
signment of the rooms in the College buildings, as they
shall judge equitable and proper.
CHAPTER IX.
Of the Library and Apparatus.
1. The Trustees and Faculty shall appoint a Librarian
who shall execute the duties of his office agreeably to the
direction of the Faculty, in all matters which are not pro¬
vided for by the rules established by the Trustees.
9. The Librarian shall cause an accurate catalogue of all
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the books andother articles belonging to the Library fa
be made, agreeably to a plan to be prescribed by the Pres¬
ident All future additions to the Library shall be imme¬
diately entered in the catalogue, in the proper places and
in similar manner.
3. He shall keep a book, lobe furnished by the Trus¬
tees, for the purpose of recording all donations made to
the Library, with the names and places of residence of
the donor-s, and the value of their respective donations,
fines, expenditures, &c. &c.; and shall make a report to
the Board of Trustees at each stated session.
4. Any person who shall present to the Library $100,
or more, in eash or approved Classical and Scientific
Books, Globes, Maps, Charts, or other appropriate
articles to the value of $100, or more, shall, during life,
have the privilege of borrowing books from the Library,
provided he return them without injury within one
month.
A It sfiall be the privilege of every Trustee and of eve¬
ry officer of the College, to take booksout of the Libra¬
ry; Provided, each book taken out be returned without
injury in one month. Classics and" books of reference
may be loaned for a longer period.
ti. No person shall be allowed to take out of the Li¬
brary, at onetime, more than two volumes, and these shall
be returned before he shall have liberty to borrow any
other book; nor shall any student keep either of them out
longer than two weeks.
7w It shall be unlawful for any person to loan a book tn
another which he has received from the Library.
8. Every person shall be answerable for the injury done
to any book, while in his possession. For any one lost,
defaced or torn, he shall pay a sum proportionable to the
damage incurred, or supply its place with a new one, at
thechoiceof the Faculty. If the volume lost or materi¬
ally injured,, belong to a valuable set, he shall pay for the
whole set, and take it as his own property.
9. Any student,, or other person, vvho"sha!l detarn a
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book from the Library longer than the allowed time, shall
pay into the Library fund 12^ cents per volume for every
week's detention, and shall not be allowed to take a book
from the Library until each fine be paid.
10. Students borrowing books from the Library, shall
pay 50 cents per session in advance, to the Librarian, for
the use of the Library.
11>. Any person, not connected with the College, shall
have liberty to take books out of the Library; provided
he pay into the Library fund, 25 cents a week for a folio,
18 for a quarto, 12 for an octavo, 6 for a duodecimo, and
within one month, return the same uninjured.
12. It shall be the duty of the Librarian, when neces¬
sary, to cause, with the advice and consent of the Presi¬
dent, any book or pamphlet to be bound, re-bound, or
repaired; the expense of which shall be paid from the
proceeds of the Library fund.
13. The Philosophical, Astronomical, Electrical and
Chemical apparatus, now belonging, or any similar col¬
lection which may hereafter belong, to this institution,
shall be committed to the care and control of the Profes¬
sors, severally, who shall have occasion to make use of
them in their course of instruction; or to such other per¬
sons as the Trustees or Faculty may appoint, and subject
to such rules and regulations as they may prescribe. No
article shall be loaned without a written order, signed by,
at least seven Trustees of the College.
chapter x.
Of the College Buildings and Property.
1. All damage done to the buildings and property of
the College, or to any furniture used in it, shall be charg¬
ed to the person or persons known to have caused it. But
when no such person can be ascertained, it shall be equal¬
ly assessed upon all the students, and charged in their
term-bills; unless it be manifestly of an unavoidable na¬
ture.
2. There shall be annually appointed an. Inspector, of
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the buildings, furniture, appurtenances, and property of
the College, whose duty it shall be to take charge of the
furniture, and account to the Treasurer for the same, and;
on the week preceding the close of each session, to ascer¬
tain and estimate all the damages chargeable upon any stu¬
dent, as having caused them; and all the damages which
are to be assessed equally upon all the students, and report
to the Treasurer, that he may charge them in the term-
bills.
3. The Faculty are to furnish the Inspector with a list
of the students whom they may know to be chargeable,
and of the particular damages caused by themrespective-
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4. The Inspector shall, without delay, cause any repairs
to be made which may be judged indispensable; and make
a full report of his proceedings at the next stated session.
CHAPTER XI.
Of Sessions and Vacations.
1. The year shall be divided into two sessions and two
vacations.
2. The Winter Session shall begin six weeks after the
second Wednesday in September.
3. The Spring Vacation shall consist of five weeks
from the third Wednesday of March.
4. The Summer Session shall begin five weeks after the
third Wednesday in March.
5. The Fall Vacation shall consist of six weeks from
the second Wednesday of September, the Commencement
day.
chapter xir.
Of Resident Graduates.
1, Resident Graduates shall have the free and full use
of the College Library, as though they were under-grad-
uates. ^ ,
2. They may attend the recitations of any Class in Col¬
lege; and may, if they choose, recite with a Class, by
permission of the Faculty, on any particular branch of the
College course.
3» They shall not visit the studehts in their rooms du¬
ring the appointed hours of study, or 'at any time after
dark, without permission from one of the Faculty.
4. They shall treat the Faculty and Laws with respect,,
and encourage diligence, order and good conduct among
the students.
5. If any resident Graduate shall be judged by the
Faculty to act in a manner injurious to the College, he
shall be so informed by a note, and shall thenceforward
cease to have the privileges secured to him by the Laws.
6. Graduates, intending to reside for improvement at
the College, shall signify tothePresident that such is their
intention; and, also, that they will hold themselves bound'
to conform to the provisions of this chapter. Their
term-bills shall be the same as those of College students;
and they shall be admitted to their privileges on exhibit¬
ing asimilar certificate from the Treasurer.
Note.—All laws heretofore adopted, which are incon¬
sistent with the foregoing, are hereby repealed.
INDEX,
CHAPTER I.
Page,
Of the Trustees, - 3
CHAPTER II.
Of the Faculty, - 4
CHAPTER III.
Of the Course of Study, 6
CHAPTER IV.
Of Admission and,General Order, - 7
CHAPTER V.
Of Examinations, Commencement and Degrees, 10
CHAPTER VI.
Of Punishments, - - - - - 12
CHAPTER VII.
Of Religious duty, Moral conduct, & Misdemeanors, 13
CHAPTER VIU.
Boarding-House, Rooms, &c. 18
CHAPTER IX.
Of the Library and Apparatus, - - - 19
CHAPTER X.
Of the College Buildings and Property, - 20
CHAPTER. XI.
Of Sessions and Vacations, - 21
CHAPTER XII.
Of Resident Graduates, - - - - 21
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