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^TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 His Excellency, Peter D. Vroom, Esq., Governor of the 
 state of New- Jersey, and, ex-qfficio, president of the board, 
 when present, Somerville, New- Jersey. 
 
 James Carnahan, D. D., president of the college, and of 
 the board, when the governor i.s absent. 
 
 Samuel Miller, D. D., eldest trustee, professor of eccle- 
 siastical history and church government in the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, Princeton, New-Jersey. 
 
 George S. Woodhull, V. D. M., Princeton, New-Jersey. 
 
 Andrew Bayard, Esq., Philadelphia. 
 
 Asa Hillyer, D. D., Orange, New-Jersey. 
 
 Robert Lenox, Esq., New York. 
 
 John M'Dowell, D. D., Elizahethtown, New- Jersey. 
 
 David Comfort, V. D. M., Kingston, New- Jersey. 
 
 Isaac V. Brown, V. D. M., Lawrenceville, New- Jersey. 
 
 Hon. Aaron Ogden, LL. D., Jersey City^ New- Jersey. 
 
 Hon. Charles Ewing, LL. D., Chief Justice of the state of 
 New- Jersey, Trenton. 
 
 Hon. Samuel L. Southard, Attorney General of the state of 
 New- Jersey, Trenton. 
 
 Archibald Alexander, D. D., professor of didactic and 
 polemic theology in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, 
 New- Jersey. 
 
 William Shippen, M. D., Bristol, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Hon. Lewis Condict, M. D., Morristown, New- Jersey, 
 
 James S. Green, Esq., Princeton, New- Jersey. 
 
 Eli F. Cooley, V. D. M., Trentoyi, New- Jersey. 
 
 Lucius Q,. C. Elmer, Esq., Bridgeton, New- Jersey, 
 
 William W. Phillips, D. D., Neio York. 
 
 John Breckinridge, V. D. M., Philadelphia. 
 
 Joseph Campbell, V. D. M., Hacketfs- Town, New- Jersey, 
 
 Hon. Silas Condit, Newark, New-Jersey. 
 
THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 JAMES CARNAHAN, D. D. 
 
 PRESIDEJfT. 
 
 JOHN MACLEAN, "A. M. 
 
 Vice President, and Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature, 
 
 HENRY VETHAKE, A. M. 
 Professor of JVatural Philosophy and of Political Economy, 
 
 ALBERT B. DOD, A. M. 
 
 Professor of J\Iathemalics. 
 
 JOHN TORREY, M. D. 
 
 Professor of Chemistry and of JVatural History, 
 
 SAMUEL L. HOWELL, M. D. 
 
 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. 
 
 LOUIS HARGOUS, A. M. 
 
 Professor of Modern Languages. 
 
 JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER, A. M. 
 fAdjunct Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. 
 
 FESTUS HANKS, A. B. 
 
 Tutor. 
 
 JOSEPH ALDEN, A. B. 
 
 Tutor. 
 
 GEORGE W. LEYBURN, A. B. 
 
 Tutor. 
 
Laws of thes col-legij. 
 
 chapter i. 
 
 OF THE OFFICERS OF COLLEGE GENERALLY. 
 
 1. The officers of college are the president, vice-presi- 
 dent, professors and tutors. 
 
 2. They are responsible to the trustees for the full execu- 
 tion 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 a stated and punctual discharge of 
 all their official duties, without the consent of the board of 
 trustees. 
 
 4. It is the duty of every officer individually, to use his 
 utmost vigilance and exertions to carry into connplete effect 
 every law of the college without exception. As he is clothed 
 with sufficient authority to make himself and the laws re- 
 Bpected, he is never to suffer any violation of a law known 
 to him, to pass without its due reprehension or punishment. 
 
 5. An exemplary regard to moral and religious duties is 
 indispensable in every officer of the college. 
 
 6. At the beginning of each session, and as much oftener 
 as to the president may seem expedient, there shall be a 
 meeting of the officers of college, in which shall be assigned 
 to each, his part in the instruction of the college, which shall 
 be registered in the book of the faculty. Provided, however, 
 that nothing more shall be assigned to the president than he 
 shall voluntarily accept ; and that the professors severally 
 shall always have the branches of science which they profess 
 included in their parts of the distribution. The frequency 
 with which each class shall recite shall be determined at 
 these meetings. 
 
 7. All the officers of the college have the right to enter 
 
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 the rooms and studies of the students at their pleasure, and 
 it is their duty frequently to visit thenn. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 1. To the president is committed the general superintend- 
 ence of the interests and reputation of the institution, which 
 he is bound to promote and maintain by every exertion in 
 his power. 
 
 2. He has a right to be present at the recitation of any 
 class in the college, as often as he may see proper, and to 
 conduct or hear the recitation, if he choose. 
 
 3. He will take such branches of instruction in the college 
 into his own hands, as he may judge that the number of 
 other teachers in the institution and his own convenience 
 render necessary and proper. 
 
 4. He is to see that prayers are made with the students 
 morning and evening, and that public worship be celebrated 
 with them on the Lord's day: And he is also to give to the 
 students a course of instruction on the evidences, prhiciples 
 and duties of the christian religion. 
 
 5. He is, ex-officio, president of the faculty, when present 
 with tJicm, and also the administrator of their decisions in 
 cases of discipline. 
 
 6. He is to preside at examinations and commencements, 
 and to confer all degrees. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 1, The vice-president is to conduct the studies of the 
 youth in those branches of literature or science of which he 
 is the professor. 
 
2, He is to convene and preside in the faculty, in the ab- 
 sence of the president. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 1. The professors shall be responsible for the faithful in- 
 struction of the students in those departments of science 
 and literature which they shall severally profess. 
 
 2. In the absence of the president and vice-president, the 
 senior professor present shall convene and preside in the 
 faculty. Seniority to be determined by the date of their 
 appointment, unless the trustees may otherwise direct. 
 
 3. The professors shall severally be responsible for the 
 preservation of the apparatus and specimens belonging to 
 their respective departments. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 OF THE TUTORS. 
 
 1. The duty of the tutors in the instruction of the college 
 id to assist the professors in teaching the Sophomore and 
 Freshman classes, and to perform such other service as may 
 be assigned them agreeably to chap. 1st. art. 6th. 
 
 2. The tutors must live in the college edifice, unless pre- 
 vented by sickness. 
 
 3. To the tutors is specially committed the preservation 
 of order and decorum in the college edifice. 
 
 4. The tutors shall ordinarily visit the rooms of the stu- 
 dents thrice a day, viz.: once in the study hours of the 
 forenoon, once in those of the afternoon, and once after the 
 ringing of the evening bell ; and they shall carefully note 
 delinquent students, that they may be dealt with as the faculty 
 shall determine. 
 
 5. The tutors are to attend the meals of the students, ta 
 
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 ask a blessing and return thanks at the dining table, and 
 to see that the youth conduct themselves with propriety,, 
 during the whole time that they are in the dining room. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 OF THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 1. The faculty of the college shall consist of all persons 
 concerned in the instruction and government of it, except 
 such as may be specially excepted by the board of trustees. 
 
 2. A majority of the members of the faculty shall, when 
 convened after due notice, constitute a quorum. 
 
 3. Every matter brought before the faculty shall be de- 
 cided by votes; and it sliall be the privilege of the president 
 of the college, when present, to vote in all cases that come 
 before the faculty, and also to give a casting vote when 
 otherwise there would be a tie. 
 
 4. The faculty shall keep a book of records or minutes^- 
 and appoint a clerk who shall enter therein a fair statement 
 of their transactions, resolutions and determinations; whicfi 
 book the clerk shall lay before the trustees, at each of their 
 stated meetings — The clerk of the faculty shall be allowed a' 
 compensation for his services. 
 
 5. No act of the faculty, which is not recorded by their 
 order, shall be considered as valid. 
 
 CHAPTER VIL 
 
 OF THE INSPECTOR, AND OF DAMAGES DONE TO THE 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 1. A person shall be appointed to inspect the college and 
 see that the rooms and entries be kept in good repair, for 
 which he shall receive such salary as the trustees shall from- 
 
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 <ime to time appoint — This office may be connected with 
 that of tutor or professor. 
 
 2. The inspector shall visit all the apartments of the col- 
 ]eii,e once a month, to see if any waste has been made, and 
 shall cause it immedi::ttely to be repaired. If the waste has 
 happened in any private apartment, and by the fault of him 
 or them who occupy it, and in all cases where the damage 
 could not be done by a person from without the apartment, 
 the inspector shall charge double for the repairs which he 
 shall cause to be made, and in like manner for damages 
 made in the uninhabited apartments of the college, when 
 the party or parties who have OiTended can be discovered ; 
 but when such discovery cannot be made, the inspector shall 
 levy the expense of repairs equally on all the students, and 
 it shall be paid before the end of the session in which it has 
 taken place. 
 
 3. The inspector shall keep an account of the repairs 
 which have been made, and of the expenses incurred in 
 consequence of them, and of the money he has received for 
 damages from the students; which he shall lay before the 
 trustees at every stated meeting of the board, that a regular 
 settlement may be made. 
 
 4. Every student shall pay to the treasurer such sum as 
 the trustess may order, at the commencement of each ses- 
 sion, to constitute a fund in advance, for such general repairs 
 of the college as are not chargeable to any individual. 
 
 5. The inspector shall constantly keep by him such ma- 
 terials as are necessary for the repairs of the college. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 OF THE LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY. 
 
 1. Th(i faculty shall appoint a librarian, who shall execute 
 ;the duties of his office agreeably to the direction of the 
 
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 faculty, in all matters which are not provided for by tho 
 rules established by the trustees. 
 
 2. Every student shall at the commencement of each 
 session, pay to the treasurer one dollar for the use and in^ 
 crease of the library. 
 
 3. The librarian shall attend at the library one day in 
 (he week, at noon, during the session, to give out books to 
 all who have a right to apply. He shall enter the names of 
 the persons in a book kept for that purpose, with the num- 
 ber and condition of the volume, by which entry he shall 
 compare it when returned. 
 
 4. He shall keep another book for the purpose of record- 
 ing all additions made to the library, with the date of their 
 reception, and if they are presents, the name and place of 
 abode of the donor ; and these books shall be immediately 
 entered in the catalogue. 
 
 5. No student or other person, except members of the 
 faculty, shall be allowed to take out of the library at one 
 time more than one folio, two quartos, or two octavos, or 
 smaller volumes, which shall be returned before they shall 
 have liberty to take out any other books. 
 
 6. The librarian shall permit no student to keep a book 
 longer than two weeks. Every person who receives a book 
 from the library shall be answerable for the injury done to 
 it while in his possession ; if lost, defaced or torn, he shall 
 pay a sum proportionable to the damage incurred, or re- 
 place it, at the discretion of the faculty. 
 
 7. Any person, except a member of the faculty, who shall 
 keep a book longer than two weeks, shall be fined twelve 
 and a half cents, and at the same rate for a longer time. 
 
 8. No person on whom a fine shall have been imposed, 
 shall be allowed to take a book from the library, till the 
 fine be paid. 
 
 9. The members of the faculty may retain, in their keep- 
 ing, books of science belonging to the branches which they 
 teach, as long as to the librarian it shall appear that the 
 general interest of the institution will permit; provided 
 
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 that this time does not extend beyond that session of the 
 college during which the hooks shall be taken out of the 
 library. 
 
 10. No person, not imnnediately connected with the col- 
 lege, shall be permitted to take a book from the library, 
 without depositing with the librarian the value of the whole 
 set, which shall be forfeited immediately after the expiration 
 of the time above specified, if the book be not returned, 
 
 1 1. No book shall be permitted to be carried more than 
 a mile from the college. 
 
 12. If the trustees or officers of the college, on any occa- 
 sion, shall desire to consult a book in the library without 
 taking it from the room, it shall be the duty of the librarian 
 to attend them for that purpose. 
 
 13. No books shall be taken from the library during the 
 regular vacations of the college. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 OF PUNISHMENTS. 
 
 1. The punishments of the institution, being wholly of 
 the moral kind, and addressed to the sense of duty and the 
 principles of honor and shame, are the following : Private 
 admonition or reprehension of a student by an officer of the 
 college ; admonition before the faculty of the college or 
 concessions there ; formal admonition before the class of 
 the offender, or in the presence of a select number of per- 
 sons of any description, with acknowledgements of the fault 
 and engagements of amendment; public admonition and 
 reprehension in the presence of all the students, with a 
 public confession and profession of penitence ; if the cir- 
 cumstances of the case require it, suspension from the privi- 
 leges of the college for a limited time ; putting the party on 
 a state of probation, so that on the next offence he shall be 
 wholly dismissed ; dismissing from the house, and ordering 
 
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 the student to leave the college immediately, but without a 
 public expulsion ; public and formal expulsion. 
 
 2. In all the laws where the penalty is not specified, the 
 selection and application of any of these punishments shah 
 be by a vote of the faculty, except the first, which any otB- 
 cer may apply as he shall judge necessary, and expulsion, 
 which shall be subject to the regulation afterwards provided. 
 The faculty, moreover, are to judge of the circumstances of 
 the offence, and to consider whether they extenuate or ag- 
 gravate its nature, and proportion the penalty accordingly — 
 The repetition of offences shall always be considered as an 
 aggravating circumstance. 
 
 3. The punishment of expulsion shall be sanctioned by 
 at least six trustees, met for that purpose, before it shall be 
 finally inflicted ; but in the mean time the faculty may dis- 
 miss or suspend the offending party, and exclude him from 
 all connexion with the college. 
 
 4. If any student shall refuse to remove out of the college 
 on being dismissed or suspended by the faculty, the faculty 
 are authorized to cause him to be immediately removed, and 
 if necessary, to call in aid the civil authority ; and they are 
 also authorized to cause an extract of their minutes respect- 
 ing him to be published in the newspapers, and such student 
 shall never afterwards be re-admitted to the college. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 OF ADMISSION INTO COLLEGE. 
 
 1. No person shall be admitted into college but by a 
 ^yote of the faculty taken for that purpose, after his exami- 
 nation. 
 
 2. No student shall be admitted into the Freshman or 
 iowest class in this college, unless he be master of Cassar's 
 Commentary, (five books,) Salust, Virgil, (Eclogues and six 
 books of the iEneid) Cicero's select Orations contained iu 
 
the volume in iisum Delphini, Mair's IntroducUon to Latin 
 Syntax, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Dalzel's 
 Collectanea Gneca Minora or Jacob's Greek Reader or 
 other authors equivalent in quantity, together with Latin 
 and Greek Grammar including Latin Prosody — and unless, 
 also, he be well acquainted with Arithmetic, English Gram- 
 mar, and Geography. 
 
 No student shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
 unless he be found on examination, to be equal to the class 
 for which he shall be a candidate. 
 
 3. No person shall be admitted into this college, under 
 any pretence whatsover, who may have studied at any other 
 college or university, without producing a certificate from 
 the president or faculty of such college or university, that 
 he has left it without censure. 
 
 4. No student shall so enter (he college as to pay less for 
 entrance, tuition and room-rent, than if he had entered the 
 junior class at the beginning, and no student shall be admit- 
 ted into college more advanced than the beginning of the 
 senior year, 
 
 5. Every person, before he is admitted to an actual stand- 
 ing in any class, shall obtain from the treasurer of the col- 
 lege receipts or certifiicates, by which it shall appear that 
 he has complied with the existing orders of the trustees in 
 regard to expense ; which certificates or receipts he shall 
 produce to that officer of the college who has at that time 
 the instruction of the class into which he desires to enter ;- 
 and if any officer admit a student to the recitations of his 
 class, without such receipts or certificate, such oflicer shalF 
 be responsible to the treasurer for the expenses of such stu- 
 dent ; and this rule shall also be observed in regard to every 
 student at the commencement of every new session of the 
 college. 
 
 6. If any student shall be received into college afler the 
 commencement of a session and before the middle of it, he 
 shall pay the tuition, room rent, library and damage money,. 
 
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 accruing on the whole session: If admitted after the middle 
 of the session, he shall pay for the half thereof 
 
 7. To prevent all excuses arising from an ignorance of 
 the laws of this institution, every student shall receive a 
 printed copy of them, for vi^hich he shall pay to the treasurer 
 thirty-three cents, to defray the expenses of printing. 
 
 8, Every student shall be required to bind himself by 
 promise to obey all the laws of the institution. This obli- 
 gation shall be taken by the president, vice-president, or a 
 professor in thefollowing manner, viz. Question to the stu- 
 dent — Have you read and understood these laws .'' Answer 
 — 1 have. Quest. Do you solemnly pledge your truth and 
 honor to obey them? Answer — 1 do. After this the student 
 shall be required to subscribe his name to the following form, 
 to be kept in a book for that purpose by the faculty of the 
 college, viz. — " We whose names are underwritten do de" 
 clare that we have acquiesced in, and solemnly promised to 
 obey the laws of this college, as they are contained in the 
 pamphlet under that title." 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 OF STUDY. 
 
 1. Every student shall diligently apply himself to sucb 
 studies as shall be prescribed to him by his teacher, and 
 shall be careful not to be absent from any recitation of his 
 class. 
 
 3. Every instructor shall appoint the time and place for 
 the recitations of the class he instructs. 
 
 3. When a student is absent from recitation, without the 
 express permission of his instructor, he shall be called to an 
 account for it; and if he have not a sufficient excuse to 
 justify the absence, he shall be reprimanded by his instructor 
 according to the nature of the offence; and if such absences 
 
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 become frequent with a student, he shall be reported to the 
 faculty, and, by their decision, be subjected to such punish- 
 ment as may be deemed necessary. 
 
 4. The hours of study shall be from the time of morning 
 prayers till eight o'clock, from nine till twelve in the fore- 
 noon, and from two till five in the afternoon; during which 
 time every student shall keep his room, unless called from 
 it to recite, or by some urgent necessity, of which he shall 
 always be ready to give an account to any officer of the col- 
 lege who may observe his absence. It is also required that 
 the students be particularly careful to keep to their rooms 
 after the ringing of the evening bell, unless obliged to leave 
 them by some cause that will obviously justify their absence 
 to the members of the faculty. 
 
 5. At the close of each session of the college, every class 
 shall be strictly examined on all the studies of that session, 
 and at the close of each year, on the studies of that year. 
 The faculty may also appoint quarterly examinations of all, 
 or any of the classes, whenever they may judge it expedient. 
 These examinations shall be public, so far as to admit not 
 only the trustees, but all gentlemen of liberal education who 
 may choose to be present, and such other persons as the 
 faculty or trustees may invite. 
 
 6. Those who shall appear to the faculty, on examination, 
 to be deficient in their studies, shall be dealt with according 
 to the nature and extent of the deficiency. If the deficiency 
 be great, the party in whom it appears shall be put into a 
 lower class : If it be such as can be remedied by dihgence, 
 the faculty may allow the ensuing vacation to make it up, 
 and examine the party at the beginning of the succeeding 
 session. If proofs of negligence appear in any, though it 
 have not been productive of gross deficiency, the faculty 
 may mention before the cla^s, the names of such persons, 
 and administer a reproof to them, and an exhortation to 
 greater diligence in future : those, on the contrary, who 
 shall appear to excel, shall be mentioned with approbation. 
 And in awarding all literary honors and distinctions, a regard 
 
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shall be had to the moral conduct, and orderly bebaViour of 
 the candidates for such distinctions. 
 
 7. Con>petitions in the various branches of literature and 
 exercises of the college may be appointed by the faculty, at 
 such times, and subject to such regulations, as they may 
 
 judge most expedient. 
 
 8. The examination for degrees shall be on all the studies 
 of the college course. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. 
 
 1. For the improvement of the students in public speak- 
 ing, two or more orations shall be pronounced every evening 
 immediately after prayers, on the stage in the public hall : 
 or at such other time and place as the faculty may direct. 
 These shall be assigned to the students in rotation, so that 
 all may have the benefit of this exercise ; nor shall any stu- 
 dent be exempted from it, except on account of natural 
 impediments or other disqualifications, of which the faculty 
 or president may judge. 
 
 2. The members of the senior class shall be excused 
 from the above exercises, and in place of them shall each 
 pronounce, at stated times, to be appointed by the faculty, 
 an oration or declamation of their own composition, as the 
 faculty shall appoint. 
 
 3. Occasional exercises in public speaking may be assign- 
 ed at the discretion of the faculty. 
 
 4. On the day of commencement the candidates for de-' 
 grees shall perform such exercises as shall be appointed 
 them, and no candidate shall refuse the exercises assigned 
 him, under penalty of being refused his diploma. 
 
 5. Mothing indecent, profane or immoral, shall at any 
 time be delivered on the public stage, under penalty of such 
 censure as the faculty or trustees shall judge proper. And 
 with a view to preserve all the public exercises of the stu- 
 
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 dents from impropriety of any kind, every student, during 
 the whole of his senior year, and previously to his com- 
 mencement performances especially, shall at least two weeks, 
 before the delivery show to the president the whole of what 
 he proposes to speak, and shall not fail to observe such cor- 
 rections as shall be made of his performances ; and if any 
 student pronounce any thing in public of a censurable 
 nature, in contradiction to the directions or corrections of 
 the officer to whom he has shown his piece, the president 
 is required to stop him on the public stage, and he shall be 
 •otherwise censured as the trustees or faculty shall determine. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 OF ORDER IN THE DINING ROOM. 
 
 1. At the signal for breakfast, dinner and supper, the 
 students shall go peaceably to the door of the dining- 
 room, where they shall wait five minutes, if necessary for a 
 tutor. 
 
 2. The students shall sit at the tables, according to the 
 order which the faculty or tutors shall appoint, and shall 
 behave themselves with decorum, carefully observing all 
 the regulations which the faculty or the tutors shall make 
 for their decent and proper behaviour. 
 
 3. Any officer of college attending at the dining-tahle 
 shall have full power to send out of the dining room any 
 student, who shall behave in any respect indecently or im- 
 properly. 
 
 4. The students shall at all times pay respect to the 
 steward of the college, and they shall not on any occasion 
 infringe on the regulations which, with the approbation of 
 the faculty, he may make for the good order of the servants, 
 or of the dining-room and kitchen. 
 
 5. If any wilful damage be done to the furniture, or any 
 unnecessary waste of the provisions of the table be made, 
 
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 the faculty shall require the individual, or the mess, by whom 
 the damage was done, or the waste made, to pay double the 
 amount, and also inflict such other censure as they may 
 judge necessary. 
 
 6. The steward shall not be obliged to provide any by- 
 meal, except in case of sickness, for any student or students 
 who may not attend at the regular hours of breakfast, dinner 
 or supper. 
 
 7. No student shall on any occasion leave the dining- 
 table before it be regularly dismissed, except by permission 
 ft-om one of the officers present. 
 
 8. No student, who is capable of attending on the exer- 
 pises of college, shall be permitted to board out of the 
 house, unless it be with his parents, or with the president, 
 vice-president, or professors of college. 
 
 9. The price of board shall be settled by the trustees, as 
 often as shall be judged necessary. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 OF DRESS. 
 
 1. It is recommended to the students to be plain in their 
 dress, but it is required of them always to appear neat and 
 cleanly ; and if any student shall be grossly negligent in 
 this respect, it shall be the duty of the college officers to 
 admonish him for it, and see that he preserve a decent ap- 
 pearance. 
 
 2. Every student shall possess a black gown, which shall 
 be made agreeably to a fashion which the faculty shall pre- 
 scribe ; and all the students shall appear in their gowns, on 
 all such occasions as shall be specified and announced to 
 them by the trustees or faculty of the college. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP, AND MORAL CONDUCT. 
 
 1. Every student shall attend worship in the college-hall, 
 morning and evening, at the hours appointed, and shall be' 
 have with gravity and reverence, during the whole service. 
 
 2. Every student shall attend public worship on the Sab- 
 bath, at such times and places as shall be directed, and shall 
 be careful to maintain a reverential deportment. The sanc- 
 tification of the whole of flie Sabbath, or Lord's day, is in- 
 dispensable to every student, and all practices inconsistent 
 therewith are expressly prohibited. 
 
 3. No student shall employ any barber or hair-dresser to 
 shave or dress him on the Sabbath, nor shall any such per* 
 son go into college on that day, for any such purpose. 
 
 4. Besides the public exercises of religious worship on 
 the Sabbath, there shall be assigned to each class certain 
 exercises for their religious instruction, suited to the age and 
 standing of the pupils. These exercises shall be assigned 
 by the president, and attended upon by the diflferent officers 
 of college, agreeably to the arrangement which they may 
 make for that purpose, and no student belonging to any class 
 shall neglect them. 
 
 5. No student shall visit on the Sabbath, nor shall any 
 who live and board in college, go without the bounds of the 
 college* on that day, unless by express permission of his in- 
 structor. 
 
 6. Monitors or bill-keepers shall be appointed to note 
 down the absentees from the exercises of the college, as often 
 as the faculty or any particular instructor of a class may 
 think proper. 
 
 7. No student shall possess or exhibit any indecent picture, 
 nor purchase or read in college any lascivious, impious, or 
 irreligious books, and if any student shall he convicted 
 
 * By which are meant the front and back yards of the college. 
 
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 thereof, or of lying, profaiieness, drunkennes, theft, unclean- 
 liess, playing at unlawful games, (such as cards, dice, and 
 back-ganfimon,) or other gross immoralities, or impieties, he 
 shall be punished according to the nature and heinousness of 
 the offence, by admonition, public reprehension, disnfiission 
 or expulsion from college. 
 
 8. If any student shall quarrel with, insult, or abuse a 
 fellow-student, or any person whatever, he shall, upon con- 
 viction, be punished according to the nature of his fault and 
 as the faculty may determine. 
 
 9. Any student convicted of sending or receiving a chal- 
 lenge to fight a duel, or who shall carry such challenge, or be 
 a second in a duel, or in any wise aid or abet it, shall imme- 
 diately be dismissed by the faculty, and as soon as practica- 
 ble expelled by the trustees. 
 
 10. No student shall bring, or cause to be brought, into 
 college, or on any occasion keep in his room, any spirituous 
 or fermented liquors, without urgent necessity ; nor without 
 an express permission from the teacher of the class to w^hich 
 he belongs. 
 
 11. No student shall go to a tavern, eating-house, beer- 
 house, or any place of such kind, for any purpose whatso- 
 ever, without permission from some member of the faculty ; 
 and the purpose for which any student shall desire to go to 
 any of these places shall be by him specified to the officer 
 of the college from whom he shall ask permission; and the 
 permission obtained shall be considered as granted for that 
 purpose only: nor shall the time of continuance at such 
 places be greater than that for which permission shall have 
 been given. 
 
 12. No student shall, on any occasion, keep company 
 with persons of publicly bad character under penalty of 
 admonition, and if the practice be continued, of dismission 
 or expulsion. 
 
 13. It is required of all students to treat all persons with 
 whom they have intercourse, with decency, modesty and re- 
 spect, but especially to exhibit the most respectful deport- 
 
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 ment to the officers of the college; and if any student shall 
 disobey any of the lawful commands of teachers, or shall, 
 either in speech or action, manifest disrespect towards any 
 of them, he shall be admonished, ask the forgiveness of the 
 offended party, or be suspended, according to the nature of 
 his offence and the decision of the faculty. 
 
 14. If any student shall refuse to appear personally before 
 the president, or any officer of the college, when required 
 so to do, he shall be punished for contempt of authority. 
 
 15. Immediate and implicit obedience shall be yielded 
 by every student to the lawful commands of every officer of 
 the institution, under penalty of punishment for contempt 
 of authority. 
 
 16. Any student who may be required so to do, shall 
 open the door of his room or study to any officer of the col- 
 lege; and if he refuse, the officer may break it open, and 
 the expense of repairing it shall be defrayed hy the student, 
 who shall also be punished for disobedience. 
 
 17. If any students remain in the college, or in the town, 
 during the vacation, they shall be subject to all the laws re- 
 specting decent and orderly conduct, and shall be under the 
 control of the officers of the college who may remain there 
 during the vacation. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 OF RESIDENT GRADUATES. 
 
 1. Resident graduates shall have the free and full use o^ 
 the college library, by paying one dollar per session for the 
 same; subject however, to all the laws relative to the 
 library, as contained in chapter 10. 
 
 2. They may attend the recitations of any class in the 
 college ; and may, if they choose and are called to it by the 
 teacher of the class, recite with a class, on any particular 
 branch of study. 
 
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 3. They may diet in the refectory, at the same price, ancf 
 subject to the same rules, as the under graduates. 
 
 4. They may receive instruction, direction, or assistance, 
 privately, from any officer of the college who may be wil- 
 ling to give it— for which they shall make such compensa- 
 tion as shall be agreed on between them and such officer. 
 
 5. They shall not visit the rooms of the students in study 
 hours, nor after the ringing of the evening bell, without ex- 
 press permission from some of the faculty. 
 
 6. They shall be expected to treat all the officers and in- 
 stitutions of the college with respect, and to encourage dili- 
 gence, order and obedience, among the students. 
 
 7. If any resident graduate shall be judged by the faculty 
 to act in a manner injurious to the college, he shall be so in- 
 formed by a note ; and shall thenceforward cease to possess 
 the privileges assured to him by these laws. 
 
 8. Graduates intending to reside for improvement at the 
 college, shall signify to the faculty distinctly that such is their 
 intention ; and also that they will hold themselves bound to 
 conform to all the provisions of the statutes contained in this 
 chapter. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS. 
 
 1. No shouting, loud talking, whistling, jumping, dancing,- 
 or any other boisterous noise, shall be permitted in the en- 
 tries or rooms of the college at any time, under such penalty 
 as the nature of the offence shall be judged by the faculty to 
 deserve. 
 
 2. No student shall be allowed to disguise himself by- 
 wearing women's apparel, or in any other way whatever, 
 under penalty of such censure as the faculty may see cause 
 to inflict. 
 
 3. No student shall be allowed to disturb, or attempt any 
 
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 iRiposition on his fellow-students, in any manner whatever; 
 and every student shall be requirejj^ to preserve order and 
 decorum in his own room, and shall be responsible for all 
 disorder therein, unless he give information, when in his 
 power, of the person or persons from whom it proceeded. •• 
 
 4. No student, after the examination for degrees, shall 
 leave college before the day of commencement, without 
 express permission from the authority of the college. 
 
 5. If any clubs or combinations of the students shall at 
 any time take place, either for resisting the authority of the 
 college, interfering in its government, or for concealing or 
 executing any evil or disorderly design, every student 
 concerned in such combination shall be considered as guilty 
 of the offence which was intended : and the faculty are em- 
 powered and directed to bieak up all such combinations as 
 soon as discovered, and to inflict a severer punishment on 
 each individual than if the offence intended had been com- 
 mitted in his individual capacity, whatever be the number 
 concerned, or whatever be the consequence to the college. 
 
 6. No meeting of the students of the college shall be called 
 without the permission of the president or in his absence of the 
 next senior oiBcer; and no meeting of a class shall be called 
 without the permission of the instructor of the class — and 
 in both cases the request shall be in writing specifying 
 the object of the meeting; and signed by the persons 
 making the request; who shall be responsible for the ^ood 
 order and doings of the class, or of all the classes, at such 
 meeting. 
 
 7. As it may sometimes happen, that a student may 
 become an unworthy, corrupting, and dangerous member of 
 the institution, and yet it may not be practicable to establish 
 his criminality by formal and specified proof: it shall, in such 
 cases, be the duty of the faculty, first to warn and admonish 
 the party thus circumstanced, and if reformation do not take 
 place, then unless the urgency of the case shall forbid the 
 measure, the parent or guardian of the party shall be written to 
 and requested to remove him, and if he shall not be removed 
 
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 without unnecessary delay, it shall be the duty of the faculty 
 to remove him, in such filanner as they shall judge that equity 
 and the good of the institution require. 
 
 8. No student suspended, dismissed or expelled. from col- 
 lege shall be permitted to enter the edifice, or come on the 
 college grounds without express permission from the presi- 
 dent ; nor shall the other students of the college be permitted 
 to visit or keep company with a suspended, dismissed or ex- 
 pelled student, without the president's permission. 
 
 9. No servant shall be employed in the college, except 
 such as shall be engaged by the steward, at a stipulated 
 salary, with the concurrence of the faculty; the duties of 
 the servants within the college shall be pointed out solely by 
 the faculty. And if any servant shall be found to violate any 
 of the laws of the institution, or to neglect any of his ap- 
 pointed duties, he shall be immediately dismissed. 
 
 10. No woman shall be permitted on any pretence to go 
 into the college except on days of public speaking; and 
 excepting also strangers who wish to see the college, or 
 citizens of the neighborhood, accompanied by an officer of 
 the college, or some person appointed by him. 
 
 11. No student shall keep for his use or pleasure any 
 horse or riding beast; nor shall any student keep a dog 
 or gun, or fire-arms and ammunition of any kind, nor 
 any sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon 
 
 .whatever, 
 
 12. If any student or students, shall steal, destroy, or 
 tresspass on the property of any person in the town or 
 elsewhere, the authority of the college shall inflict an 
 exemplary punishment on him or them; and any combina- 
 tion to prevent the execution of the civil laws shall be 
 severely punished. 
 
 13. No student shall hire any horse or carriage from any 
 person whatever, for the purpose of amusement, exercise, or 
 business, without explicit permission from some officer of 
 
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 the college. Nor shall a student, without such permissioD, 
 go to a greater distance than two miles from the college, at 
 any time whatever, during the continuance of the session. 
 
 J 4. The students are subject to all the laws of the col- 
 lege, after the classes to which they belong are dismissed at 
 the close of each session, till they take their departure from 
 the town : And if any student after his class is dismissed 
 shall go to a tavern without permission, or receive any en- 
 tertainment, or do any act whatsoever prohibited by the 
 laws of the college, he shall be considered as committing the 
 same offence and incurring the same penalty, as if he had 
 done the same act before the dismission of his class. 
 
 15. Whereas cases may arise not expressly provided for, 
 the faculty are fully authorised to adopt such additional re- 
 gulations, not inconsistent with the preceding laws, as in 
 their opinion are necessary for the good order of the institu- 
 tion: and these regulations, when announced, shall be as 
 promptly obeyed as the printed laws. 
 
 16. In every certificate of dismission from college, the 
 reasons of dismission shall be specified, and the student's 
 standing as a scholar particularly mentioned. 
 
 17. A student dismissed from college, for whatever cause, 
 shall have refunded to him the whole which he has advanced 
 for board, from the time of his dismission. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 The annual commencement of the college is on the last 
 Wednesday of September. 
 
 The fall vacation begins the day after commencement^ 
 and expires in six weeks. 
 
 The spring vacation begins on the first Thursday after 
 the second Tuesday in April, and expires in five weeks. 
 
 The studies of the college are the following, viz. : — 
 
 Roman and Grecian Antiquities; The Theory of Num- 
 bers ; Algebra ; Geometry ; Plane and Spherical Trigono- 
 metry; Surveying; Navigation; Conick Sections; Analytical 
 and Descriptive Geometry; Differential and Integral Cal. 
 cuius ; Mechanics ; Natural Philosophy ; Chemistry ; Natu- 
 ral History ; Astronomy ; Political Economy ; Rhetoric 
 and Belles Lettres j History and Chronology ; The Greek 
 and Latin Classics by all the classes ; Moral Philosophy ; 
 Logic ; Composition ; and the Holy Scriptures. 
 
 The college course of study is completed in four years. 
 
 The classes are denominated Freshman, Sophomore, Ju- 
 nior, and Senior. 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF ADMISSION. 
 
 I certify that was 
 
 regularly admitted a member of the College of New-Jersey, 
 on the day of one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and 
 
 Clerk of the Faculty. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 List of the Trustees, _ - . - 5 
 
 List of the Faculty, - - - - 6 
 
 Of the Officers of the College generally, - 7 
 
 Of the President, - - - - - 8 
 
 Of the Vice-President, - - - ib. 
 
 Of the Professors, - r - - 9 
 
 Of the Tutors, - - - - ib. 
 
 Of the Faculty of College, - - - IQ 
 
 Of the Inspector, and of Damages done to the College, ib. 
 
 Of the Libcarian and Library, - - - 11 
 
 Of Punishments, - - - - 13 
 
 Of Admission into College, - - - 14 
 
 Of Study, ..... 16 
 
 Of PubUc Speaking, - - - - 18 
 
 Of Order in the Dining Room, - - 19 
 
 Of Dress, - - - - - - 2Q 
 
 Of Religious Worship and Moral Conduct, - 21 
 
 Of Resident graduates, - - - - 23 
 
 Miscellaneous Regulations, - - - 24 
 
 Advertisements, - - - - - 28 
 
 Certificate of Admission, - - . ib. 
 
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