COT T'TM'RTA ^ fYlT J ¥(1^ ■o- 1 A J, U I rjb LD .5 1885. .i'^-»> mm ^>>i^ ^ji^iMi^ m-^ si'^ii'i m WHMiAro » .«^^i» i iiili ilk ^me'^ W^;n. ^^$® vta'i. SiiE lifr'^'. ;;''i'' ' '7 L^'^-W. STATUTES OF Columbia College ANO Its Associated Schools NEW YORK PRINTED FOR THE COLLEGE 1885 ^y /. 11 Macgowan & SiiipPBR, Printers, 30 Beekman Street, New York. CONTENTS. PAGE Trustees of Columbia College 5 STATUTES OF THE COZ,LE&E. CHAPTER I. Of the president 7 CHAPTER II. Of the Board of the College 8 CHAPTER III. Of the course of study 10 CHAPTER IV. Of admission. 12 CHAPTER V. Of attendance 18 CHAPTER VI. Of discipline I'S CHAPTER VII. Of the proficiency of students 14 CHAPTER VIII. Of academic honors 16 CHAPTER IX. Of conimLencements 17 CHAPTER X. Of vacations , 19 CHAPTER XI. Of the library 19 CHAPTER XII. Of free scholarships 31 CHAPTER XIII. Of foundations 31 iv CONTENTS. STATUTX! FOn ORaANIZlNG THE SCHOOL OF MINES. CHAPTER I. PAGE Of the president 23 CHAPTER II. Of the faculty of the School of Mines 2?, CHAPTER III. Of admission 34 CHAPTER IV. Of the course of study 35 CHAPTER V. Of the proficiency of students and of graduation 36 CHAPTER VI. Of discipline 27 CHAPTER VII. Of fees for tuition • • • 28 CHAPTER VIII. Of comuiencement and degrees 28 STATUTE FOR ORGANIZING TME SCHOOL OF LAW. CHAPTER I. Of the president 29 CHAPTER II. Of the warden 29 CHAPTER III. Of the faculty 30 CHAPTER IV. Of admissions 31 CHAPTER V. Of the course of study 33 CHAPTER VI. Of degrees 32 RESOLUTIONS. PROVIDIN& FOB A SCHOOL OF MBDICIETE 34 Providing fob a School of Political Scibnck 35 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. NAMES. RBSIDBJSfOBS. HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Chairman of the Board, 351 East 17th Street. HORATIO POTTER, S.T.D., LL.D., D.C.L 38 East 22d Street. WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 49 West 33d Street. MORGAN DIX, S.T.D 37 West 25th Street. FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D College Green. SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, LL.D Washington, D. C. STEPHEN P. NASH 11 West 19th Street. JOSEPH W. HARPER. Jr 563 Fifth Avenue. CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M.D 366 Madison Avenue. A. ERNEST VANDERPOEL 114 East 16th Street. CHARLES A. SILLIMAN 41 West 46th Street. FREDERICK A. SCHERMERHORN 61 University Place. GERARD BEEKMAN, Clerk op the Board 5 East 34th Street. Office, 149 Broadway. ABRAM N. LITTLEJOHN, S.T.D 170 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. JOHN J. TOWNSEND 131 Fifth Avenue. EDWARD MITCHELL 45 West 55th Street. W. BAYARD CUTTING 18 West 57th Street. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, S.T.D 70 West 36th Street. SETH LOW 201 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. GEORGE L. RIVES 15 East 39th Street. LENOX SMITH 1 Wall Street. GEORGE L. PEABODY, M.D 57 West 38th Street. JOHN CROSBY BROWN 36 East 37th Street. JOHN MCLEAN NASH, Treasurer 67 Wall Street. 5 STATUTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHAPTER I. OF THE PRESIDENT, § 1. It shall be the duty of the president to take charge and have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of the grounds adjacent thereto, and of its movable property upon the same. To see that the course of instruction and discipline pre- scribed by the statutes is faithfully pursued, and to prevent and rectify all deviations from the same. To call meetings of the faculty, and to give such directions and perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the interests of the college, so that they do not contravene the charter, the statutes, the orders of the Board of Trustees, or the decisions of the Board of the College. To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep himself informed of the manner in which the classes are taught. To report to the trustees annually, at the stated meeting in May, and as occasion shall require, the state of the college, and particularly the manner in which the several professors and tutors perform their respective duties. § 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence from the college for a reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he shall judge the occasion may require ; provided that when such leave of absence exceeds two days, it be entered upon the minutes of the Board of the College. 8 OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. § 3. He shall preside at commencements and at all meetings of the board, and shall sign all diplomas. § 4. He shall assemble the classes every day except Saturday and Sunday, at half-past nine o'clock A.M., for the purpose of attending prayers ; and at these daily prayers it shall be the duty of each of the members of the board to be present, unless his presence shall be dispensed with by the president. § 5. In the absence or sickness of the president, the senior professor, who shall be in the regular performance of his duties, shall have authority to perform the duties and exercise the authority of the president. CHAPTER n. OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. § 1. The president and the professors engaged in the sub- graduate course of instruction shall constitute the Board of the College. Tutors shall have seats at the board on all occasions when the conduct or proficiency of the students under their charge, in the departments in which they respectively give instruction, shall be in question, but on no other occasion ; but they shall have no vote. § 2. The professors shall take precedence according to the date of their appointments. § 3. It shall be the duty of the professors and tutors to assist the president with their counsel and co-operation. § 4. The board shall have power : To try offences committed by the students ; To determine their relative standing ; To adjudge rewards and punishments, and to make all such regulations of their own proceedings and for the better execu- tion of the college system as shall not contravene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any oi'der of the Board of Trustees. OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 9 § 5, The concurrence of the president shall be necessary to every act of the board ; and in case the board shall be equally divided, the president shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as a member of the board. § 6. In case of the absence of the president, the senior pro- fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the board, and all acts of the board thus constituted shall be valid, unless the president shall, at the next subsequent stated meeting at which he shall be present, express his dissent, either personally or in writing. § 1. Upon any resolution, duly seconded, a vote shall be taken, if desired by the mover. When the president dissents from the vote of the majority of the board, such vote and such dissent shall be recorded in the minutes. § 8. The board shall meet for the purpose of administering the general discipline of the college once in each week, except in vacation. At these meetings the professors shall report concerning the conduct and proficiency of the members of the respective classes, noting particularly those who have been delinquent in their behavior or attendance, or deficient or negli- gent in their recitations, with the number of their absences. § 9. The board shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and shall appoint one of their own number to perform that duty. § 10. In those minutes shall be noted the names of the mem- bers present and absent at each meeting. It shall be the duty of the president to cause such minutes to be laid before the trustees at their meetings. § 11. No member of the Board of the College, or of the Faculty of the School of Mines, and no other officer engaged in instruction shall be employed in any occupation which shall interfere with the thorough, efficient, and earnest performance of the duties of Lis office. 10 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. CHAPTER III. OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. § 1. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students in college, to be called the freshman class, the sophomore class, the junior class, and the senior class. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course four years. § 2. The freshman class shall be instructed in the Latin and Greek languages, Grecian history and Roman antiquities, rhetoric, and the more elementary branches of the pure mathe- matics, § 3. The sophomore class shall be instructed in the Latin and Greek languages, Roman history and Grecian antiquities, modern history, English literature, chemistry, and the remain- ing branches of pure mathematics usually taught in colleges, except analytical geometry and the differential and integral calculus. § 4. The junior class shall be instructed in the Latin and Greek languages, history of literature, logic, psychology, {esthetics, modern history, analytical geometry, mechanics, and physics. § 5. During the senior year, instruction shall be given in astronomy, physics, political economy, constitutional govern- ment, geology and mineralogy, the Latin and Greek languages and literature, history of philosophy, psychology, theoretic, analytic, or applied chemistry, and the differential and inte- gral calculus. § 6. In each of the four years the student shall be exercised in English composition, and during the first three years in Latin and Greek composition also, and in elocution. § 7. Instruction shall be given to students who may desire it, in the German language and its literature, and in such other OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 11 modern languages as the Board of Trustees may see fit to direct. § 8. A plan of the course, specifying more in detail the studies to be pursued in each year and in each of the depart- ments of instruction, shall be prepared by the Board of the College, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees ; and this plan, after having been so approved, shall be published. § 9, The trustees shall assign to each professor or other instructor such proportion of the time of the classes as may seem to them judicious ; and the faculty shall prepare, in con- formity with this allotment, such a scheme of daily instruction as shall appear to be best adapted to promote the advancement of the students in their various studies. § 10. The text-books to be used by the classes may be selected by the professors in their several departments, with the approval of the president, and with the reserved right of control by the Board of Trustees. § 11. The hours of instruction at the college shall be the four in each day which immediately follow the morning exercises of the chapel, or so many of them, not less than three, as it may be found practicable to employ, and such other hours as the trustees may at any time hereafter assign ; and during those hours the classes severally, or their several sections, shall attend such instructors as shall be prescribed in the scheme of daily instruction, or as the Board of the College may direct, and in the order which may be so determined. § 12. No professor or other olficer of the. college shall excuse a class or section from assembling at the time and place appointed for lecture or recitation, or dismiss a class or section after it may have assembled before the expiration of the time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of the presi- dent ; nor, without such consent, shall any class or section be excused from the performance of any exercise required of them by law ; but individual students may, for satisfactory reasons, be excused from such performance by the officers to whom they are due. 12 . OF ADMISSION. CHAPTER IV. OF ADMISSION. § 1. As a general rule, no student shall be admitted to the freshman class, at its formation, unless he shall have attained the age of fifteen years ; nor shall any one be admitted to a more advanced standing without a corresponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed with when, in the opinion of the faculty, there are sufficient reasons to justify its relaxa- tion. § 2. Every candidate for admission to the college shall be required to present, before examination, a certificate of good moral character from his last teacher, or from some citizen in good standing ; and students from other colleges shall be required to bring certificates from those colleges of honorable dismission. § 3, Every applicant for admission to the freshman class shall be examined in the English, Latin, and Greek grammars, Latin prosody and composition, ancient and modern geogra- phy, arithmetic, and so much of algebra and geometry, and such authors in Greek and Latin, as the Board of the College may prescribe. All the requisitions for admission shall be annually published, and the Board of the College shall have power, from time to time, with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees, to modify these requisitions as the exigencies of the college may seem to require. § 4. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced standing until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the studies which have been pursued by the class for which he applies, as well as upon those enumerated in the foregoing sec- tion ; nor, in case he shall have been previously a member of another college, without a certificate from such college of his discharge in good standing. § 5. Every student admitted to the college will be required immediately upon his admission, and subsequently at the begin- OB* ATTENDANCE. — OF DISCIPIilNE. 13 ning of each succeeding academic year, to write in the matricu- lation book of the college his own name, and the name, place of abode, and post office of his father or guardian. § 6. None but matriculated students or graduates of the col- lege shall be allowed to attend any of the classes without the special permission of the Board of Trustees. § 7. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation. § 8. An honorable discharge shall always be granted to any student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw from the college ; but no undergraduate student shall be entitled to a dis- charge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given in writing to the president, § 9. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to the college, he shall be presented with a copy of these statutes, and of any printed rules or by-laws made under them for the gov- ernment of the students by the Board of the College ; and another copy of the same shall be sent or delivered to his parent or guardian. CHAPTER V. OF ATTENDANCE. § 1. The attendance of the students upon all college exercises shall be obligatory, and shall be enforced by the Board of the College under suitable penalties. § 2. Irregularities in attendance shall be reported to the president, whose duty it shall be from time to time, as occasion may in his judgment require, to report such irregularities to the parent or guardian of the student in f au It. CHAPTER YI. OF DISCIPLINE, § 1. Cases of misconduct on the part of students shall be referred in the first instance to the president. 14 OF THE PROPICIBNCY OF STUDENTS. § 2. Any member of the faculty may summon a student to appear before the Board of the College, and in such case he shall immediately report the facts of the case to the president. § 3. In case any member of a class under instruction disturb the class exercises, the professor may require such student to leave the room ; and the student shall thereupon forthwith report himself to the president. § 4. All sentences of the board adjudging punishments shall be reduced to writing before they are pronounced, and the stu- dents whom they affect shall be cited to hear the same read in the presence of the board alone. § 5. If it appear to the board that the members of a class, or any number of them, have entered into a combination to avoid collegiate duties, or to violate any of the statutes or any regu- lation of the board, any one or more of those embraced in such combination may be proceeded against separately. § 6. No student shall be a member of any professional school during his academic course. CHAPTER VII. OF THE PEOFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. § 1. Each professor or other instructor shall make to the president a monthly report of the names of such students as may be deficient in his department ; and shall also report daily those who may have been unprepared to recite, or who may have made absolute failure in attempting to recite. The president shall immediately notify each student reported as deficient of the fact of such report. By deficiency is here meant such a degree of imperfection in attainment as is likely, if not removed, to prevent the recom- mendation of the student for his degree, at the close of the academic course. § 2. Each professor or other instructor shall, at the end of OF THE PROFICIENCY OP STUDEJNTS. 15 every month after the first month of each year, make and keep a numerical scale of the standing of all the students under his instruction, according to a standard prescribed by the Board of the College — the order of merit to be determined by examina- tion conducted in any manner which the professor may choose. § 3. Besides the monthly examinations provided for in the foregoing section, there shall be two public examinations of all the classes every year — the one to commence on the last Mon- day in January, and the other on the Monday of the third week preceding commencement ; which examinations shall severally extend to all the studies pursued during the session immediately preceding. Each of these examinations shall have a weight in the determination of scholarship equal to that of all the monthly examinations of the term. The senior class may be excused from attendance at college during the week preceding their final examination. § 4. The Board of the College shall prescribe such rules as may be necessary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the attainments of the students ; and any one who shall be found to have willfully violated these rules, or any of them, shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the college. § 5. Each professor or other instructor shall, after each semi- annual examination, report to the president a numerical scale of the standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruc- tion during the preceding half year, according to a standard pre- scribed by the Board of the College. The sum total of all the valuations assigned to the perform- ances of each student in any department, in the semi-annual reports, estimated as above, shall be taken to express the value of the student's scholarship in said department. These results shall only be used to ascertain the student's proficiency, and shall not be made public ; but the president may give to the parent or guardian of any student the particulars embraced in them, so far as that student is concerned. § 6. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same department in more than one monthly record may be required 16 OF ACADEMIC HONORS. to Study with a private tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, and to pass a rigorous examination on the same, at a time to be appointed by the Board of the College, or shall no longer be per- mitted to be a candidate for a degree. § 7. No student who, after the close of the intermediate ex- amination of the senior year, shall be found to have any defi- ciencies recorded against him, shall be longer a candidate for a degree in arts, unless the Board of the College shall, for reasons of weight, see fit to allow him further examination on the sub- jects in which he is deficient. § 8. Every student, whose record of scholarship shall be found at the close of the academic course to be fair, shall be entitled to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of bachelor of arts. If there be any one against whom there shall appear a record of deficiency not subsequently made good, in regard to which the Board of the College is satisfied that there has been no culpable neglect of duty, such student may, in the discretion of the board, be recommended for a degree speoiali gratia ; and every student who may fail of such recommenda- tion shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of his attendance and the degree of his attainment. § 9. Previously to each public examination, notice shall be given, in two of the daily papers published in the city, of the time when the examination is to commence ; and the regents of the university, the trustees of the college, the parents and guardians of students, and such other persons as the president may think proper so to distinguish, shall be invited to attend. CHAPTER VIII. OF ACADEMIC HONORS. § 1. At the close of the senior year the results contained in all the semi-annual reports of all the four years shall be com- bined, by adding together the valuations assigned to the per- formances of each student severally in such reports ; and upon the basis of the totals thus ascertained, all academic honors shall be awarded. OP COMMENCEMBNTS, l'? § 2. The Board of the College shall determine what propor- tion of the maximum of values obtainable shall entitle a student to be included in the honor list. All those students whose totals amount to, or exceed, the proportion thus determined shall be divided into three groups, to be styled the first, the second, and the third classes of honor ; and the board shall prescribe the proportion which shall entitle a student to be enrolled in these classes severally. § 3. In the allotment of parts in the litei'ary exercises of the commencement, preference shall always be given to those mem- bers of the graduating class whose names are included in the honor list, and if the number of these others be sufficient, no shall be selected. CHAPTER IX. OF COMMEIirCEMBNTS. § 1. There shall be an annual commencement on the second Wednesday in June, when academic degrees shall be conferred, and orations shall be delivered by members of the graduating class, who shall have been selected by the Board of the College, with reference to their standing in the class and their capacity to acquit themselves creditably at the commencement, viz. : One Greek salutatory and oration or poem ; One Latin oration or poem ; Two English orations by members of the graduating class of the School of Mines ; Two English orations by members of the graduating class of the college ; And a valedictory. But a poem in English or a German oration may be substi- tuted for either of the English orations. § 2. The English orations provided for in the foregoing 18 Oi' COMMENCEMENTS. section shall be prepared under the following general regu- lation : Members of eveiy senior class shall be required, as a condition of graduation, to prepare and present to the president, and in conformity with the directions which he may prescribe, on or before the first day of May in the senior year, a written essay, dissertation, oration, or poem, suitable to be pronounced before a public audience ; and after the speakers shall have been selected for commencement, such speakers shall be allowed to deliver in public, on commencement day, the compositions prepared as above directed, except such as may have speeches assigned them in languages other than the English, or shall be duly appointed to deliver salutatory or valedictory addresses. § 3. All such orations shall be subject to criticism by the president ; and the student who shall refuse or neglect to adopt the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who shall deliver his oration or exercise otherwise than is approved by the president, shall not receive his degree. § 4. Any student neglecting or refusing to perform the part assigned to him shall not receive his degree. § 5. No alumnus of this college shall receive the degree of master of arts in less than three years after the date of his first diploma, unless he shall pursue a course of study for such degree for a term of at least one year in the Graduate Depart- ment of the college, in which case, at the close of such term of study, he may, on passing an approved examination, and on recommendation of the Board of the College, receive the degree of master. The president may assign to one or more of the alumni of the college who may apply for the degree of master of arts such orations or exercises as he may deem expedient ; which orations or exercises shall be delivered the last in the order of the day, the valedictory oration excepted ; but no oration or exercise shall be delivered unless approved by the president. § 6. No person of immoral character shall be admitted to the honors of this college. Of VACATIONS— OF THE LIBRARY. 19 § 7. Each candidate for the degree of bachelor or master of arts shall, before the same is conferred, discharge all his liabilities to the college. § 8. A committee of the trustees, to be annually appointed for that purpose, shall, together with the president, make all further requisite arrangements for the annual commencements. CHAPTER X. OP VACATIONS. § 1. There shall be a vacation of all the classes from the second Wednesday in June until the first Monday in October, § 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures on Ash-Wednesday, Grood-Friday, Easter-Monday, on public holi- days established by law, and on such days in each year as may be recommended by the civil authority to be observed as days of fast or thanksgiving ; and for two weeks, commencing with the fourth Monday in December, unless the fourth Monday shall fall later than the twenty-sixth day of the month, and in that case commencing with the third Monday. § 3. The president may, in extraordinary cases, grant an intermission for other days, not exceeding one day at any one time ; and it shall be his duty always to report the same at the next succeeding meeting of the Board of Trustees, together with the object and reason for granting such intermission. CHAPTER XI. OF THE LIBRARY, § 1. The committee on the library shall, subject to the trustees, have the entire charge and control of the library and the rooms containing it, and also of the expenditure of all moneys 20 OF THE LIBRARY. appropriated by the Board of Trustees for the purchase of books and supplies therefor, shall appoint all needed assistants and sub- ordinate officers, and fix their titles, duties, and compensations, provided that the total amount shall not exceed the appropria- tion of the trustees for that purpose, make and enforce by suit- able penalties any needed rules and regulations relating to the library, its readers, officers, or servants, and, unless otherwise specially ordered by the trustees, shall have charge of all mat- ters pertaining to the college library, and the custody of all college publications, works of art and of historical interest, etc., belonging to the college, and shall make proper catalogues, inventories, and annual examinations, and fix the place of deposit of the same, and may make any needed regulations to increase their usefulness or safety. § 2. The chief librarian shall be ex-officio the secretary and executive officer of the library committee, and under them shall have the general charge, management, and control of the matters entrusted to the committee, and shall pi'omulgate and attend to the execution of all orders, votes, directions, and regu- lations. He shall be the custodian of the property under the control of the committee, and of all files, records, books, and papers, shall keep full record of the proceedings, send all notices, con- duct all correspondence, sign and issue all orders, and no money shall be paid, on account of the library, for books, periodicals, binding, supplies, or administration or other expenses, unless the bill therefor has the written approval of the chief librarian or, in his absence, of his deputy, duly appointed by the committee. § 3. The libi-ary committee shall annually report, on or before the first Monday in January, to the trustees the condition of the library building, fixtures, and books, the additions, use, receipts, and expenditures of the year, with any needed information or recommendations. With this annual report shall be submitted an estimate in detail of the appropriations required for the increase and administration of the library for the ensuing financial year, together with an estimate of any income to be derived from fines, the sale of duplicates, or other sources. OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS.— OF FOUNDATIONS. 31 CHAPTER XII. OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. § 1, The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall be entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, four students, to be instructed free of charge. § 2. The Society for promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New York shall be entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, two students in each class, to be instructed free of charge. § 3. The members of the Board of the College, the professors of the School of Mines and of the Law School, and the chap- lain of the college, shall be entitled to have their sons educated, free of charge, in the undergraduate department, in the School of Mines, or in the Law School. § 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations of the Board of Trustees in regard to free tuition. § 5. All free scholarships, except those granted under this statute, and those acquired under the present or former statutes of this college by the endowment of such scholarships, are abolished. CHAPTER Xin. OF FOUNDATIONS. § 1. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship, by the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the treas- urer of the college, shall be entitled to have always one student educated in the college free of all charges for tuition. This right may be transferred to others. The scholarship shall bear such name as the founder or founders may designate. § 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professorship in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical science, or in the literature of any of the ancient or modern languages, by the payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars to 22 OF FOUNDATIOiMS. the treasurer of the college, shall forever have the right of nominating a professor for the same, subject to the approbation of the Board of Trustees, who shall hold his office by the same tenure as the other professors of the college — the nomination to be made by the person or persons who shall make the endow- ment, or such person or persons as he or they may designate. The proceeds of the endowment shall be appropriated to the salary of. the professor. STATUTE FOR ORGANIZING THE SCHOOL OF MINES (As Amended February 5 and June 4, 1877.) CHAPTEK I. OF THE PRESIDENT. ,Tlie president of the college is the president of the faculty of the School of Mines. He shall preside at the meetings, when present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. CHAPTER 11. OP THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES. § 1. The Faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of the president, and the professors engaged in the subgraduate course of instruction. § 2. The instruction shall be conducted by the above profes- sors^ and such assistants and lecturers as have been or may here- after be appointed under the authority of the trustees. § 3. The faculty shall have power to make such regulations for the management of the School of Mines as shall not contra- vene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any order of the Board of Trustees. § 4. The concurrence of the president shall be necessary to every act of the faculty. 24 OF ADMISSION. § 5. The faculty shall be authorized to elect a dean from among their own number, who shall be charged with such duties as the president may delegate to him. § 6. In case of the absence of the president, the senior pro- fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the board ; but no act of the board thus constituted shall be valid until approved by the president. § 1. The board shall hold stated meetings at least once a month during term-time, and shall keep a book of minutes of its proceedings, to be submitted by the president to the trustees at their meetings. CHAPTER III. OF ADMISSION. § 1. Candidates for admission to the first class, at its forma- tion, must be of the age of seventeen years, complete ; and, for admission to advanced standing, there will be required a corre- sponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed with in cases of unusual proficiency on the part of applicants, or for other reasons of weight, § 2. The requisitions for admission shall be prescribed by the faculty of the school, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees ; and all the requisitions for admission shall be annually pviblished. § 3. No candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing until he sliall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the studies which have been pursued by the class for which he applies ; but graduates and students of colleges and schools of science, who shall have completed so much of the course of study as shall be equivalent to the requirements for admission to the school, may be admitted at the beginning of the second year, or earlier, without examination, on presenting diplomas or certifi- cates of good standing and lionorable dismissal, satisfactory to the examining officers. OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 25 § 4. None but students regularly entered as members of the school shall be allowed to attend the classes without permission of the Board of Trustees. § 5, Tuition fees must be paid at entrance, and subsequently at the beginning of each session, before the student takes his place in his class. CHAPTER IV. OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. § 1. There shall be four classes of students in the school, to be distinguished as the first, second, third, and fourth classes. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year ; and the entire course four years. § 2. During the first year instruction shall be given in geo- inetr}'-, algebra, trigonometry, and mensuration ; in elementary physics ; in chemistry, inorganic and organic, and in qualitative analysis; ^aJa UMaa ai aia i, and in drawing. § 3. Instruction in the second year shall comprise analytical geometry, calculus, descriptive geometry, shades, shadows, and perspective;- surveying, theoretical chemistry, stoichiometry ; determinative mineralogy, qualitative blow-pipe analysis, and crystallography ; zoology and botany. § 4. In the third year instruction shall be given in mechanics, quantitative analysis, mineralogy, and quantitative blow-pipe analysis ; in the principles of engineering, and their applica- tions to works of civil and mining engineering ; in mathe- matical physics; in applied chemistry; in metallurgy, geology, and surveying. § 5. In the fourth year instruction shall embrace the princi- ples, construction, and management of machines and engines ; mining and civil engineering ; applied chemistry ; economic geology; geodesy and surveying; practical mining; ore dressing and assaying. 36 OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. § 6. The subjects of study enumerated in the foregoing sec- tions shall be so grouped as to form seven independent courses of instruction, viz., a course in civil enginering, a course in mining engineering, a course in metallurgy, a course in geo- logy and paleontology, a course in analytical and applied chemistry, a course in architecture, and a course in sanitary engineering. At the beginning of the first year each student shall elect which of the seven courses above mentioned he intends to pursue, and after having made his election, he shall not be permitted to abandon the course chosen in order to take up another, without the consent of the faculty, to be given only for reasons of weight. § 7. In all studies which are common to two or more courses of instruction, the students electing those courses may be instructed in common ; but no student shall be a candidate for two different degrees at the same time. § 8. In each of the four years, students shall be required to practise in drawing and in chemical analysis as the exigencies of the course they are pursuing may require, and in the second, third, and fourth years they shall be similarly practised in sur- veying in the open air, when the weather and their other scho- lastic engagements Avill allow. During the vacation following the close of the third year, students of mining engineering- shall engage in actual work in mines, under the superintendence of the adjunct professor of surveying and practical mining. § 9. A plan of the several courses, specifying more in detail the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each department of instruction, shall be established by resolution of the Board of Trustees, and published. CHAPTER V. OF THE PROFICIENCr OP STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. § 1. Every professor shall make and keep a numerical scale of standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruction, according to a standard prescribed by the faculty, the order of merit to be determined by examination. OF DISCIPIilNE. 27 § 2. The faculty may prescribe such rules as may be neces- sary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the attainments of the students ; and any one who shall be found to have wilfully violated these rules, or any part of them, shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the school. § 3. Any student who, upon examination in any subject, shall have been pronounced deficient, shall be required to study the same subjects again, and to pass, at a time appointed by the faculty, a satisfactory examination on the same, failing in which he shall cease to be a candidate for a degree. CHAPTER VI. OF DISCIPLINE. § 1. In case of misconduct in a student, unless the offence be so flagrant as in the judgment of the professor to require the interference of the faculty, the professor shall admonish the offender, either privately or publicly, and, upon failure of siic- cess, may, in his discretion, bring the subject before the faculty of the school. § 2. The punishment of dismission shall be inflicted only by an act of the faculty. § 3. A student whom it may be necessary to bring before the faculty shall have due notice of the time and place of their meeting, and shall be allowed to defend himself. § 4. If injury be done to the buildings or other property of the college, or any property used by the School of Mines, by any student, the faculty shall have power to impose a pecuniary mulct to the extent of the damage ; and, unless such mulct be paid, the offending student shall be punished in the discretion of the faculty. 28 OF FEES FOR TUITION. — OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. CHAPTER VII. OF FEES FOR TUITION. The fees of the school shall be paid into the treasury of the college. CHAPTER VIII. OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. § 1. At the annual commencement, established by chajiter IX., § 1, of the statutes of the college, degrees shall be con- ferred on the students of the school who may be entitled to receive them, and such students shall be required to attend at the commencement for that purpose. § 2. Among the public exercises of the commencement there shall be two orations by members of the graduating class of the school, who shall have been selected by the faculty of the school for their merit and their capacity to acquit themselves creditably in the performance of such exercise. § 3. The orations provided for in the foregoing section shall be prepared in accordance with such regulations as may be pre- scribed by the president, and shall be subject to criticism by that officer ; and any student who fails to conform to such regu- lations, or shall refuse or neglect to adopt the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who shall deliver his oration otherwise than is approved by the president, shall not receive his degree. STATUTE FOR ORGANIZING THE SCHOOL OF LAW (As Amended February 7, 1876, and April 15, ]878.) CHAPTER I. OF THE PRESIDENT, The president of the college is the president of the faculty of law. He shall preside at its meetings, when present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. CHAPTER n. OF THE WARDEN. § L It shall be the duty of the warden to see that the course of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and due discipline observed ; to keep himself informed of the manner and efficiency of instruction in the several departments ; to call special meet- ings of the faculty, and to give such directions and perform such acts as shall in his judgment promote the interests of the school, so that they do not contravene the charter, the statutes, the orders of the Board of Trustees, or the decisions of the faculty of the school ; to give to the president of the college or to the com- mittee on the School of Law, from time to time, any informa- tion which he or they may require, as to the condition or admin- istration of the school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the 30 OP THBi FACUliTt. instruction, or the performance of duty of any of its officers ; to report to the trustees annually, at the stated meeting in October, and as occasion shall require, the state of the school, and the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and particularly^ the manner in which the several professors perform their respective duties. § 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence to students for such length of time as he shall judge the occasion may require. § 3. He shall preside, in the absence of the president of the college, at commencements of the law school, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. CHAPTER HI. OF THE FACULTY. § 1. The facility shall be constituted of the president of the college, the warden, and the professors of the school. They shall meet statedly once a month during the annual term. They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, to be submitted to the trustees of the college at their regular meet- ings, and to the committee on the School of Law, when called for by them. The president, or, in his absence, the warden, or, in the absence of both, the senior professor present, shall l^reside. § 2. The faculty shall have power to act upon all cases of discipline in their discretion, with power to admonish, suspend, dismiss, or expel students, if such cases are brought before them by the warden ; to admit students who aa"e graduates of some college upon certificates of the college authorities, and those who are not graduates upon the report of the examiners. § 3. No act of the faculty shall be valid, if disapproved by the president, if present, or by the warden, such disapproval to bo noted on its minutes. Ot* At>MISSIO]l!fS. 31 CHAPTER IV. OF ADMISSIONS, § 1. All graduates of literary colleges will be admitted with- out examination. Other candidates for admission must be at least eighteen years of age, and have received a good academic education, including such a knowledge of the Latin language as is required for admission to the freshman class of this college. § 2. Candidates for admission, not graduates of literary col- leges, are required to pass an examination in the outlines of Greek and Roman history, history of England and the United States (of North America) ; English grammar, rhetoric, and the principles of composition ; in Caesar's Gallic War (entire), six books of Virgil's ^Eneid, and six orations of Cicero, or other Latin authors deemed by the examiners to be equivalent to the above. § 3. Such examination shall be conducted by three examiners, alumni of the college, to be appointed by the committee on the School of Law. § 4. The examinations shall begin in the law school building on the Saturday next preceding the first Wednesday in October, and shall be oral and in writing. § 5. Students who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to the law school without a preliminary examination in Latin, provided that none such shall be admitted to the incon- venience or overcrowding of the lecture rooms. § 6. Students being candidates for a degree, who are well grounded in the principles of the Latin language, but who have not read the entire amount required by section 2 of this chapter, may be admitted to the law school, at the discretion of the faculty, conditionally, as candidates for a degree. If such defi- ciency is not made up in one year, they may be allowed to join the next junior class upon new conditions ; but they shall not be allowed to proceed with the senior class. ^2 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY.— OF DEGREES. CHAPTER V. OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. § 1. There shall be two classes of undergraduate students m the law school, to be called respectively the senior and the junior class. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course two years. § 2. The annual term in the law school shair'cdtamence on the first Wednesday in October in each and every year, and shall close on that Wednesday in May which is nearest to the fifteenth day of the month. This annual term shall constitute the collegiate year. § 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies to be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the faculty of the law school, subject to the approval of the committee on the School of Law ; and this plan, after having been so approved, shall be published. § 4. The warden, in consultation with the faculty, shall have power to arrange the hours for lectures and recitations, as well as to select the text-books for the use of the students. § 5, Moot courts shall be held under the direction of tli^ faculty, at such times as they may deem proper. The mode of proceeding and the assignment of students to take part in the discussion shall be under the direction of the warden. CHAPTER VI. OF DEGREES. § 1. Every student who shall pass an apj)roved examination upon the required studies of the course shall be entitled to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of bach- elor of laws. Should the student not have attained the as:e of OP DEGREES. 33 twenty-one years at the time of graduating, the delivery of the diploma shall he deferred until he shall have attained that age. § 2. A student who shall not have pursued the full course of study shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be signed by the warden. RESOLUTIONS PROVIBING FOR A SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Passed Junk 4, 1860.) Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of Gohimbia College hereby adopts the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York as the Medical School of Columbia College. Resolved, That the diplomas of the degree of doctor of medicine shall be conferred by the president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, sitting with the president of Columbia College, and shall be signed by the presidents of the respective colleges, and such others of the faculty as may be designated, from time to time, by by-laws or resolutions of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Resolved, That this connection shall be continued during the pleasure of the respective Boards of Trustees of the two colleges, and may be determined by a vote of either board, and notice thereof given to the other Board of Trustees. RESOLUTIONS PROVIDING FOB A School of Political Science (Passed June 7, 1880.) Resolved, That there be established, to go into operation at the opening of the academic year next ensuing, a school designed to prepare young men for the duties of public life, to be entitled a School of Political Science, having a definitely pre- scribed ciirriculum of study extending over a period of three years, and embracing the history of philosophy; the history of the literature of the political sciences; the general consti- tutional history of Europe; the special constitutional history of England and the United States; the Roman law, and the jurisprudence of existing codes derived therefrom; the com- parative constitutional law of European states and of the United States; the comparative constitutional law of the dif- ferent states of the American Union; the history of diplomacy; international law; systems of administration, state and na- tional, of the United States; comparison of American and European systems of administration; political economy, and statistics. Jiesolved, That the qualification required of the candidate for admission to this school shall be that he shall have successfully pursued a course of undergraduate study in this college, or in some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the close of the junior year. Resolved, That students of the school who shall satisfactorily complete the studies of the lirst year shall be entitled, on examination and the recommendation of the faculty, to receive the degree of bachelor of philosophy; and those who complete the entire course of three years shall, on similar examination and recommendation, be entitled to receive the degree of doctor of philosophy. INDEX. PAGE Absences to be reported 13 Academic honors, how determined 16 Admission, age of 12 " requisitions for. , 12 " School of Mines 24 " School of Law 31 Attendance. ... 13 Board of Trustees 5 Board of the College, how constituted 8 '' •' " powers of 8 " " " meetings of 9 " " '■ to keep minutes 9 Buildings to be under president's chai'ge 7 Classes of undergraduates, number and style 10 " " studies of 10 " in School of Mines 25 ' ' in School of Law 32 College of Physicians and Surgeons adopted as School of Medicine 34 Combinations, unlawful, how to be treated 14 Commencement, time of 17, 28 " allotments of parts at , 17, 28 " exercises at ...17, 28 " committee on. ... 19 Course of study, outline of 10 " " detailed plan to be published 11 " . " in School of Mines 25 " " in School of Law 32 Dean of the School of Mines 24 Deficiency, what is understood by 14 Deficient students, how to be treated 15, 27 38 INDEX. PAGE Degree of master of arts, how soon conferred 18 " " " conditions required for 18 Degrees, when conferred 17 28 32 " may be forfeited, how 18,38 " candidates for, must pay all dues 19 •' in School of Mines 28 " in School of Law 32 Determination of standing 15^ 26 Discharges granted only with consent of parent or guardian 13 Discipline in the college 13 " in the School of Mines 27 " in the School of Law 30 Dues to college to be paid befoi-e degree is conferred 19 Examinations, number of '. 15 " how to be conducted 15 " to be advertised 16 " invitations to be issued for 16 " in School of Mines 26 " in School of Law 31, 32 Exercises may be suspended by the president. 19 Faculty of the college, how constituted ... 8 " " " their powers and duties 8, 9 " of the School of Mines, how constituted 23 " " " powers of 28 " " " " meetings of 24 " " " to keep minutes 24 " of the School of Law 30 " " " " powers of . 30 " " " " meetings of 30 " " to keep minutes 30 Failures at recitation, to be reported 14 Fees of undergraduates ... 13 " of students in School of Mines 25, 28 Foundations for scholarships 21 " for professorships 21 Graduates of the college may attend classes 13 INDEX. 39 PAGE Grrounds to be under president's supervision 7 Holidays * 19 Honors, academic, how to be determined 17 Hours of instruction 11 Laws, copies of, to be delivered to students 13 " " to be sent to parents 13 Law school. See School of Law. Librarian, his duties 20 Library, committee of trustees to have charge of 19 " committee on, shall report annually 30 Masters of arts, orations by, at commencement 18 Matriculation 13, 13 Medicine, School of. See School of Medicine. Mining school. See School of Mines. Physicians and Surgeons, College of, adopted as School of Medicine 34 President of the college, his powers and duties 7 " shall have casting vote in the board 9 " his concurrence necessary to acts of faculty 9 " may suspend exercises 19 Professors, reports to be made by 14, 15 " to have no occupation interfering with college duties 9 " time of, with the classes 11 " shall not excuse classes from attendance 11 Professorships, how they jnay be founded 21 Punishments, sentences to be in writing 14 Record to be kept of failures, want of preparation 14 Reports, of president, to trustees 7 " " to parents 15 " of professors 14, 15 " of committee on the Ubrary 20 Rolls of merit, how to be constructed 17 Scholarships, free 21 " " may be founded, how 21 School of Law 29 " " president of 29 " ** wardenof 29 40 lifDEX. PAGi3 School of Law, faculty of 30 " " discipline of 30 " " admission to 31 School of Mines 23 " " president of 23 " dean of 24 " faculty of 28 " " admission to 24 " " instruction in 25 " " discipline of 27 " fees of .25,28 School of Medicine 34 School of Political Science 35 Statutes of the college 7-22 " School of Mines 23-28 School of Law 29-33 Students, must matriculate before attending classes 13, 25 " deficient, or partly deficient. 14, 15, 16, 27 Suspension of exercises , 19 Text-books, how to be selected 11 Trustees of the college, names of 5 Tuition fees, of undergraduates, when payable 13 " "of students in School of Mines 25, 28 Vacations 19, 32 Want of preparation, to be recorded 14 Warden of School of Law, his duties 29 " " " is to report 30 " " " his concurrence necessary to acts of faculty 30 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS • 029 915 900