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 CHAPTER I. 
 
 OF THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 Rule 1. The Students will be required, during their 
 residence at the College, to bring their conduct in all 
 particulars to accord with the following statement of the 
 origin and purpose of the Institution. 
 
 " Haverford School was establislied for the special purpose of 
 guarding the morals and religious opinions of young men while 
 pursuing a full collegiate coui'se. 
 
 " Its promoters had seen with deep I'egret the demoralizing in- 
 fluences of College life : they knew the importance of liberal and 
 systematic study, but they felt that even such advantages were too 
 dearly purchased by exposure to temptations which in many cases had 
 resulted in the ruin of young men, and from which the discipline of 
 no college in this country was found a sufficient safeguard. 
 
 "The religious principles of the Society of Friends, and that strict 
 family discipline to which its younger members are subjected, were^ in 
 their judgment, of primary importance. Wanting these, they beheved 
 that no literary institution, however desirable its opportunities for in- 
 tellectual culture, could be other than a dangerous residence for their 
 sons. 
 
 " To supply this great need Haverford School was founded. It 
 combined the educational means and the higher training of the college, 
 with that family discipline to which our young men were supposed to 
 be accustomed at home ; and which, by keeping them constantly under 
 the watchful eye of officers and teachers^ v/ould, it was hoped, in a great 
 measure supply the place of parental oversight. When the style of 
 the Institution was changed, and, for reasons deemed adequate, the 
 title of College was assumed, no change whatever was designed in the 
 moral government. It was for the same class of students that its doors 
 were opened ; it was for precisely the same ends; and it was through 
 the same combination of College instruction and strict family discip- 
 line that these ends were to be obtained." 
 
CHAPTER IT. 
 
 OF THE GOVERNMENT 
 
 Rule 1 . The President, Superintendent, Professors, and 
 Tutors, shall constitute the College Faculty, and shall 
 have the care and government of the Students. They 
 shall meet regularly once a week, at such times as they 
 shall themselves appoint, and keep regular minutes of 
 their proceedings, which minutes shall be laid before the 
 Visiting Committee when met at the College. 
 
 Rule 2. Should any student be guilty of such flagrant 
 violation of order, or should his general deportment be 
 so unsatisfactory as in the judgment of the Faculty to 
 require that he be sent home, whether as suspended or 
 dismissed, the facts of the case are to be communicated 
 as early as practicable to the Committee on Instruction, 
 and should they unite with the Faculty, such penalty 
 shall be imposed. 
 
 Rule 3. If any student shall, while under the care of 
 any of the Instructors, by disrespectful language or 
 behaviour, or in any other way violate the order of 
 the College, it shall be competent for such Instructor, 
 should other means fail, and he deem it needful, to sus- 
 pend him from the studies of his department — reporting 
 the case as early as practicable to the Superintendent, 
 whose duty it shall be to use all proper means to impress 
 the offender with a sense of his misconduct, and to re- 
 quire him to make satisfaction to his Instructor before 
 he can be permitted to resume his studies : and on failure 
 of these remedies, the Superintendent may suspend him 
 from all his studies, and may interdict intercourse with 
 his fellow- students, and bring the subject before the 
 Faculty, who may proceed as under Rule 2d. 
 
Rule 4. No student shall leave, or be withdrawn from, 
 the College, on the plea of indisposition, or for other 
 cause, without the consent of the Superintendent, which 
 consent shall be entered upon his Journal, together with 
 the reasons for which it was given : and the length of 
 time during which such student shall have been absent, 
 shall also be recorded, and the Journal laid before the 
 Visiting Committees at their monthly visits. 
 
 Rule 5. A systematic Course of Study having been 
 carefully arranged and prescribed, all students admitted 
 to the College will be expected to pursue the full Course, 
 during the period of their connexion with the Institution; 
 and no student shall be allowed to omit or discontinue 
 any study, or to pursue a partial or irregular course, 
 without a unanimous vote of the Faculty ; which con- 
 clusion shall be reported to the Committee on Instruction 
 with the reasons therefor. 
 
 Rule 6. Censures and penalties imposed by the Faculty, 
 shall be communicated by the President to the Students 
 therein concerned, and in important cases, to their 
 parents or guardians. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 OF ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATIONS. 
 
 Rule 1. Candidates for admission, accepted by the 
 Board of Managers, shall be examined by the Faculty, 
 and placed in such classes as they may be found pre- 
 pared to join. 
 
 Rule 2. Every person admitted shall, before entering 
 upon his studies, receive a printed copy of the Rules 
 relating to the conduct of the students, and shall care- 
 fully read the same ; after which he shall sign the fol- 
 lowing declaration, viz : " I hereby declare that, having 
 been admitted into Haverford College, it is my deter- 
 mined purpose to obey all its laws." 
 
Rule 3. Every person admitted as a student, shall be 
 considered as on probation for the first Term of his con- 
 nexion with the Institution. If, during the Term of his 
 probation, he shall fail to exhibit a satisfactory degree 
 of diligence in study and disposition to good order — or 
 if, upon any other ground, it be deemed by the Faculty 
 not advisable that he should become a member of the 
 College, the case shall be submitted to the Committee on 
 Instruction, and if they concur, his connexion with the 
 Institution shall cease. The time of probation may be 
 prolonged, however, at the discretion of the Faculty, to 
 a period not exceeding one year. 
 
 Ride 4. Every person who shall have passed his pro- 
 bation in a satisfactory manner, shall receive a Certificate 
 of Matriculation as a member of the College in full 
 standing. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 OF EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 Rule 1. Near the close of each Summer Term, there 
 shall be a private Examination of the Sophomore and 
 of the Senior Classes: of the former, upon the studies 
 of the first two years of the Course, preparatory to ad- 
 vancement to the Junior Class : and of the latter, upon 
 those of the last two 3^ears, for the Degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. The members of the Class under Examination, 
 shall be seated, each day, in a room by themselves, under 
 the care of an officer of the College, and shall he furnish- 
 ed with a set of Questions upon some book in the Course, 
 to be answered in writing, without consulting any person 
 or book. The Questions shall be on topics and passages 
 selected throughout the Text books, and calculated to 
 test as accurately as possible the student's knowledge of 
 the subject. No student can be advanced to the Junior 
 Class, or be graduated and receive the Diploma of a 
 
Bachelor of Arts, without having passed the private 
 Examination in a satisfactory manner. 
 
 CHAPTER V . 
 
 OF DEGREES, COMMENCEMENTS, ETC. 
 
 Rule 1. Students who have completed the full Course, 
 in a satisfactory manner, and passed the written Exam- 
 inations on all the Studies with success, and who shall 
 perform an Original Exercise at Commencement, or 
 present a Thesis satisfactory to the Faculty, will, if they 
 shall have obtained the requisite averages for conduct, 
 and if their moral character be unexceptionable, receive 
 the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the Diploma of the 
 College. 
 
 Rule 2. Graduates of three years standing, having 
 received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or the Diploma 
 of Haverford School, may take the Degree of Master of 
 Arts, on submitting to the Committee on Instruction 
 satisfactory evidence of continued good moral character, 
 and presenting a carefully written Thesis on some literary 
 or scientific subject, which shall receive the approbation 
 of the Faculty. 
 
 Rule 3. Degrees shall be conferred at the Annual 
 Commencement, on the second Fourth-day of the Seventh 
 month. The Literary Exercises at the Commencement, 
 shall consist of Original Orations and Dissertations by 
 the members of the Graduating Class, in the Greek, 
 Latin, or English languages, to be assigned in such 
 manner as the Faculty shall see fit. 
 
 Rule 4. At the close of the first Term of the Junior 
 year, there shall l^e puj^lic Exercises by the members of 
 the Junior Class ] the performances to consist of Original 
 Orations, Dissertations, or Versions in the Greek, Latin, 
 or English languages, assigned by the Faculty. 
 
CHAPTER V I. 
 
 or TERMS AND VACATIONS. 
 
 Rule 1 . The College Commencement shall take place 
 on the second Fourth-clay in the Seventh month, and the 
 Winter Term begin nine weeks thereafter, and continue 
 twenty weeks. The Summer Term shall begin three 
 weeks from the end of the Winter Term, and close on 
 Commencement day. 
 
 Rule 2. There shall be two Vacations, one of three 
 weeks succeeding the Winter Term, and one of nine 
 weeks following the Summer Term. 
 
 C H A P T E R VII. 
 
 OF THE CONDUCT OF THE STUDENTS. 
 
 Rule 1. All the Students must be present in time for 
 the Morning recitations on the days appointed for the 
 opening of the Terms, unless prevented by illness, 
 attested by the certificate of a physician, or the death of 
 a near relative. New students must present themselves 
 on the morning of the preceding day, for the purpose of 
 being examined and classified. 
 
 R^lle 2. The students will be expected at all times to 
 keep within the enclosures around the College building, 
 except when they may have express liberty from the 
 Superintendent to pass beyond them. 
 
 Rule 3. When a student obtains liberty to extend his 
 walk beyond the prescribed limits, it is to be distinctly 
 understood, that he is not to enter or even to go to any 
 house whatever, unless he shall have, at the same time, 
 obtained permission from the Superi¥itendent for that 
 purpose. 
 
 Rule 4. Ample space being appropriated in other 
 parts of the building for the use of the students, they 
 are required to avoid going into the kitchen, and such 
 
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 other parts as would be attended with iuconvenieiice to 
 those engaged in the domestic concerns of the family. 
 
 Rule 5. In the interval of hours of study, after the 
 close of the morning recitations, the students will have 
 the liberty of free access to their respective chambers, 
 provided that they shall preserve them in a decent state, 
 — that no student shall pass into any other chamber 
 than his own, — and that at all times, whether in the 
 day or night, when the students are in their chambers 
 or the adjacent passage, they shall avoid all unnecessarj' 
 conversation with each other, and conduct themselves iu 
 a quiet and orderly manner. 
 
 Rule 6. Smoking and Chetvlng Tobacco, are to be alto- 
 gether avoided by the students. 
 
 Rule 7. No Books or Periodicals shall be brought to 
 the College or retained by any student, unless with the 
 approval of the Faculty. 
 
 Rule 8. The students are to dress consistently with 
 the simplicity of our Religious profession, and in other 
 respects to endeavour to conduct themselves in conform- 
 ity with the Christian principles and testimonies of the 
 Society of Friends. 
 
 Rule 9. The students will be required to obey all the 
 Regulations, which the Faculty may from time to time 
 deem it necessary to establish for the good of the Insti- 
 tution ; to be punctual and regular in their attendance 
 at all the prescribed exercises and collections ; to be 
 affable and courteous in their intercourse with eacli 
 other, and with all those with whom they have con- 
 nexion ; to conform ~ in all their deportment to strict 
 decorum; to avoid cutting their names, or otherwise 
 defacing or wasting either their ow^n property or that 
 of each other, or of the Institution ; and in general, 
 to abstain from any act, which, in their judgment, w^ould 
 
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 not be sanctioned by those under whose care the}^ are 
 placed. 
 
 Rule 10. All losses and injuries of the property of the 
 College occasioned by students, shall be charged to the 
 offenders; and should it, after due notice to all the 
 students, be found impossible to discover these, the cost 
 shall be divided among the students and charged in 
 their bills. 
 
 While such Rules as are calculated to promote the best interests of 
 the Students will be made and enforced, the Managers and Faculty 
 earnestly desire that the Students may be influenced to good order and 
 diligence in study, by the highest motives; by moral and religious 
 principle, a sense of duty, a manly spirit of obedience, and the gener- 
 ous feelings which should characterize young men engaged in honor- 
 able pursuits. 
 
 C H A P T E R VIII. 
 
 OF ADMISSIONS ON THE FUND. 
 
 Eule 1. The Committee on Instruction shall be charged 
 with Admissions on the Fund. 
 
 Rule 2. All the students so admitted, shall be members 
 of the Religious Society of Friends, whose example shall 
 Ije useful in promoting the discipline of the Institution; 
 and they shall be persons whose circumstances are such 
 as to require assistance in procuring a liberal education. 
 
 Rule 3, A preference shall always be given to students 
 who intend to become Teachers. 
 
 Rule 4. The admissions shall be for one year only, 
 but may be extended to a longer period, on the recom- 
 mendation of the Faculty, and the decision of the Com- 
 mittee on Instruction. 
 
 Rule 5. All necessary charges, except that for Board 
 and Tuition, must be paid by the student at or before 
 the end of each Term, and for such payment, he must 
 give sufficient security on his admission. 
 
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