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 CHAPTER I. 
 Of the Government of the College. 
 
 I. The Government of the undergraduates of the College shall 
 be vested in the President, Professors, and Tutors, who shall be 
 styled the Faculty of the College. 
 
 II. The President shall have power to direct in all matters relat- 
 ing to the College, to govern the students, and to punish all 
 offenses committed by them against the laws of the College, except 
 in cases referred by law to the Faculty. 
 
 III. The Professors and Tutors, severally, shall have power to 
 govern the students, and to punish them for any offense, except in 
 cases referred by law to the Faculty: Provided, that they may not, 
 in any case, proceed contrary to the advice-and direction of the 
 President. ; 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Of Admission into the College—of the distinction of the Classes. 
 
 I. Every candidate for admission into the College shall produce 
 before being admitted satisfactory evidence of a good moral char- 
 acter; and, if he shall have been connected with any other Col- 
 lege, he shall produce a certificate from the authorities of that Col- 
 lege, of his regular and. honorable standing and dismission. 
 
 II. No person shall be admitted into the Freshman Class, at the 
 beginning of the course, till he has completed his fifteenth year; 
 nor to any advanced standing without a corresponding increase of 
 age. 
 
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 III. No one shall be admitted into the Senior Class after the end 
 of the December vacation. 
 
 IV. Candidates for admission into the College shall be exam- 
 ined on such days and in such places as the Faculty may appoint, 
 and always by three or more members of the Faculty ; and every 
 candidate for the Freshman Class shall be subject to an examin- 
 ation on the following studies, viz: in Latin, on seven of the Ora- 
 tions of Cicero, the Bucolics, Georgics, and first six books of the 
 fEneid of Virgil, Sallust’s Jugurthine War, Latin Grammar and 
 Composition ; in Greek, on five books of Xenophon’s Anadasts, 
 two books of Homer, Greek Grammar, Composition, and His- 
 tory ; in Mathematics, on Arithmetic, Algebra, and Plane Geom- 
 etry ; also, in Geography and English Grammar. Instead of the 
 portions of the Greek and Latin Classics specified above, other 
 portions of the same, equal in amount, may be admitted as a sub- 
 stitute. 
 
 For an examination at a time not appointed by the Faculty, a 
 fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the Treasurer of the College. 
 
 V. Every candidate for admission to an advanced standing shall 
 be examined on the authors and subjects specified in the preceding 
 section, and in the studies which shall have been pursued in the 
 College by the Class to which he desires to be admitted. Students 
 who have withdrawn from College may not be readmitted without 
 a vote of the Faculty, and they may be required to pass such an 
 examination as the Faculty shall determine. 
 
 VI. Persons examined as aboveand approved shall be.admitted 
 to College on signing the following statement: 7 hereby acknowl- 
 edge the obligation on my part, while I remain connected with Yale 
 College,—of which by this act I become a member,—to submit to the 
 authority of the Corporation and the Faculty. Every student shall, 
 as soon as practicable after his admission, give to the Treasurer a 
 satisfactory bond for the payment of his College bills ; and anyone 
 who neglects to furnish such bond, may be suspended or dismissed 
 from the College. 
 
 VII. The undergraduate students shall be divided into four dis- 
 tinct classes: the first year they shall be called Freshmen; the 
 second, Sophomores; the third, Juniors; and the fourth, Seniors. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 Of Religious Worship and Order—of Mgnittors. 
 
 I, Public worship, accompanied by reading of the Scriptures, 
 shall be conducted daily by a member of the Faculty in the 
 Chapel, which exercise it shal] be the duty of the Faculty and the 
 students to attend. 
 
 II. Divine service shall be publicly solemnized in the College, 
 as a distinct religious society, on the Lord’s day, and on such 
 other days as the Faculty shall prescribe; and the students shall 
 be present at every prescribed exercise of public worship, except 
 such as have permission to attend other congregations in town, or 
 are otherwise excused. No excuse for absence from public worship 
 shall be accepted, unless, when practicable, previously rendered 
 to a member of the Faculty. 
 
 III. Monitors appointed by the Faculty shall designate, on bills 
 provided for the purpose, those who are tardy, or who egress, or 
 absent themselves from prayers or other appointed exercises ; 
 which bills they shall return, as directed, to some member of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 IV. It is enjoined upon all the students to observe the Lord’s 
 day ; and, if any student shall behave improperly on that day, he 
 may be punished by admonition or otherwise, as the nature of the 
 offense shall require. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Of the Course of Academic Literature and Instruction. 
 
 I, In the pursuit of the several branches of learning appointed 
 by the Corporation or the Faculty, the students shall comply with 
 the directions of their instructors, and shall be held accountable 
 to the Faculty for any negligence respecting the same ; and, if any 
 student shall be absent from any recitation, or other literary exer- 
 cise duly appointed, or from any part of the same, without ren- 
 dering a satisfactory excuse, he may be admonished; and, for a 
 frequent repetition of the same offense, he may be suspended or 
 dismissed. — ‘ 
 
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 II. There shall be two or more public examinations of the whole 
 body of the students each year, under the direction of the Faculty ; 
 and every studené, who shall be absent from an examination ap- 
 pointed by the Faculty, without rendering a satisfactory excuse, 
 shall receive such punishment as the nature of the offense may 
 require. 
 
 III. If, at the public examination or in his daily recitations, any 
 student shall fail to maintain a satisfactory standing, notice shall 
 be given to his parent or guardian, and to the student himself; 
 and he may be directed to employ the aid of a private instructor, 
 or to study through the vacation. If, after these steps have been 
 taken, he does not make satisfactory improvement, he may be sus- 
 pended or removed from his Class; nor shall he be readmitted to 
 the same, until he passes a Satisfactory examination. A student, 
 thus removed from any Class, may, by vote of the Faculty, be im- 
 mediately admitted to a lower Class without examination. 
 
 IV. The last examination of the Senior Class shall be held at 
 the close of the Summer term, and those who shall be recommended 
 by the Faculty shall be candidates for the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. 
 
 V. If any member of the Senior Class shall be found at the final 
 examination not qualified to be advanced to the standing of a 
 candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, he may, if not pre- 
 viously warned of his danger of failing to obtain a degree, be 
 again examined, at the convenience of the Faculty. 
 
 VI. No one shall be permitted to appear as a speaker at the 
 public Commencement, unless he presents his composition for 
 revision at or before the time appointed and made known by the 
 Faculty, and if any student, without permission of the Faculty, 
 shall fail to perform the exercises assigned him, or shall speak 
 anything not approved by the Faculty, he may be precluded from 
 receiving a degree. 
 
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 CHAPLER-Y. 
 Of Terms, Vacations, and Absence from College. 
 
 I. The public Commencement shall be held on the Thursday 
 after the last Wednesday in June of each year. The first term 
 begins eleven weeks from Commencement Day and continues 
 fourteen weeks; the second begins on the second Thursday in 
 January and continues (with a recess at Easter, not exceeding nine 
 days) until Commencement. The intervening periods are 
 assigned for vacations. 
 
 II. No student shall reside in the College buildings during any 
 of the vacations, without the knowledge and permission of the 
 Faculty. And if any one shall transgress this law, he shall be 
 fined a sum not exceeding fifty cents for each day, and may be 
 further punished at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 III. If any student, after the expiration of any vacation, or at 
 any other time, absents himself without a just and reasonable 
 excuse, rendered beforehand (by letter or otherwise) whenever the 
 cause of the absence can be foreseen, the Faculty may punish the 
 absence in whatever way the nature of the case may require. If 
 any student shall absent himself without leave for three months 
 from College duties, he shall be considered as no longer a mem- 
 ber of College. And no student shall have leave of absence 
 granted him for more than four months, except on account of ill- 
 health, or for the purpose of joining a lower Class. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Of the Location of the Students. 
 
 I. Such member of the Faculty as the President shall appoint, 
 shall have authority to locate the students in the apartments of 
 the College; and no student shall at any time take up his resi- 
 dence in a College room without the permission of the locating 
 Officer. 
 
 Il. Every student who shall take a room in College, shall con- 
 tinue to occupy the same, and pay the rent until the end of the 
 College year, unless released by the locating officer: and if any 
 
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 such student shall be out of town, he shall still be liable for the 
 rent for the remainder of the current term and until he shall be 
 discharged from it by the locating officer. No double room in 
 Durfee or Farnam College shall be occupied by one person 
 except with the permission of the Faculty; and if the occupants 
 of any College room, which has been assigned to two persons, 
 shall without permission make any arrangements by which one of 
 them obtains sole possession, the room shall be declared vacant ; 
 and when one of two occupants obtains permission to occupy any 
 such room alone, he shall pay the entire rent and charges for so 
 long a time as he thus occupies it. 
 
 III. If any student shall without permission change his room, 
 or take up his lodging in any room other than the one which he 
 has chosen, he may be excluded from rooming in College, or 
 otherwise punished, according to the circumstances of the case. 
 
 IV. If any student, who may take a College room, shall be 
 absent from College beyond the time allowed him, the Faculty 
 may, at their discretion, take away his room and give it to another. 
 
 V. If any student shall be vexatious to his room-mate, or shall 
 damage and deface the room assigned to him, the Faculty may 
 deprive him of his room, or inflict such punishment as the circum- 
 Stances of the case require. 
 
 VI. No student, occupying a room in College, shall board at 
 his own room without express permission of the Faculty. 
 
 VII. The officers of the College occupying rooms in any entry 
 shall have special charge of that entry and all rooms bordering 
 thereon, to watch over the conduct of the students in the same, to 
 repress disorder, and to enforce the discipline of the College. 
 
 VIII. The students shall be visited in their rooms by officers of 
 the College, as often as the Faculty shall think expedient. 
 
 IX. All students rooming out of College shall be subject to the 
 same rules and regulations in their rooms, and shall be liable to 
 the same visitation and inspection of the Faculty as those who 
 room in College. 
 
 X. No student living out of College shall, without express per- 
 mission of the Faculty, have a room in any tenement, which is not 
 occupied by a private family of good and reputable character. 
 
 XI. The students shall report to the Faculty, at such times and 
 in such ways as the latter may direct, the places at which they sev- 
 
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 erally board and lodge, with such other matters thereunto per- 
 taining as the Faculty may call for: and the Faculty shall have 
 power to prohibit any student from boarding or lodging at any 
 place which to them appears objectionable: and if any student 
 shall continue to be a boarder or lodger at the same place after 
 such prohibition, he may be admonished, suspended, or dis- 
 missed, according to the circumstances of the case. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 Of the Inspector of Buildings, and the Assessment of Damages. 
 
 I. The Inspector of Buildings, appointed by the Corporation or 
 Prudential Committee, shall, near the close of each term, and 
 oftener if necessary, make a full and careful examination of the 
 College buildings and appurtenances, particularly of the entries 
 and rooms, with a view of ascertaining what damages may have 
 been committed since the previous inspection, and what repairs 
 may be necessary. 
 
 II. It shall be the duty of the Inspector to estimate any dama- 
 ges done to the rooms or buildings, to impose suitable fines for 
 the neglect or violation of such rules as may be prescribed by the 
 Faculty for the occupants of rooms, and to report said fines to the 
 Treasurer, to be charged in the term-bills. In case of gross and 
 wanton damages, in addition to the preceding returns to the Treas- 
 urer, the Inspector shall further report the same to the Faculty, to 
 be punished as an offense against the order and discipline of the 
 College. 
 
 III. Damages done to any study or bed-room by a person 
 unknown, may be charged in the bill of ordinary repairs, provided 
 that the occupants immediately report the same to the officer of 
 the entry in which the room is situated, or to the Inspector, and 
 satisfy him that it was done without their fault, and that they are 
 ignorant of the person or persons by whom it was done. 
 
 IV. Damages done by a person unknown, if done to a recita- 
 tion room or lecture room, may be charged to the class or division 
 occupying such room; and, if done to any other part of the Col- 
 lege buildings or appurtenances thereof, may be assessed upon all 
 the students, and charged in their term-bills. If, however, the 
 person be known, he may be fined by the Inspector, or otherwise 
 
 punished at the discretion of the Faculty. 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 Of College Discipline. 
 
 I. Every student shall show in speech and behavior all proper 
 respect and obedience to the Faculty: and if any student shall be 
 guilty of any kind of contempt of their persons or authority, he 
 may be punished by any censure, even to expulsion, as the nature 
 and aggravation of his offense may require. 
 
 If any student shall designedly injure or attempt to injure any 
 member of the Faculty in his person, property, or premises, he 
 shall be expelled. 
 
 II. If any student shall contract matrimony, he shall no longer 
 be a member of the College. 
 
 III. If any student shall profess or endeavor to propagate a dis- 
 belief in the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, and shall 
 persist therein after admonition, he shall no longer be a member 
 of the College. 
 
 IV. If any student shall be guilty of blasphemy, fornication, 
 theft, forgery, dueling, or any crime for which an infamous punish- 
 ment is inflicted by the laws of the State, he may be expelled. 
 
 V. If any student shall be guilty of fighting, challenging, turbu- 
 lent or indecent words or behavior, intoxication, wearing disguises 
 or female attire, carrying deadly weapons, defamation, fraud, lying, 
 absenting himself from College duties on false pretences, or any 
 like offense, he shall receive such punishment as the nature and 
 demerit of the act shall require. 
 
 VI. If any student shall be guilty of an injury to the person, 
 property, or premises of a fellow-student, or of any other person, 
 he shall make satisfaction according to the nature of the offense or 
 injury, and be subject to such punishment as the case may require. 
 
 VII. If any student shall keep any kind of firearms, fireworks, 
 or gunpowder, or shall fire any gunpowder or fireworks in or near 
 the College yard or near the dwelling-house or person of any 
 member of the Faculty, he shall be punished according to the cir- 
 cumstances of the case. 
 
 VIII. There shall be no illumination by the students, but by the 
 permission and under the direction of the Faculty. 
 
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 IX. All disorderly and irregular assemblages or processions of 
 students, and all kinds of disturbance by night, tending to break 
 the quiet of the College or of the city, are expressly forbidden, 
 and may be punished as the case may require. 
 
 X. Every student in the hours of study shall abstain from hal- 
 looing, singing, loud talking, playing on a musical instrument, or 
 other disorderly noise in the College buildings or yard. 
 
 XI. If any student shall riug the College bell, except by order 
 of some member of the Faculty, he shall be punished as the case 
 may require. 
 
 XII. No student shall play at ball with a bat or at foot-ball in 
 the College buildings or in the College yard; or throw anything 
 by which the College buildings may be in danger of damage: or 
 throw anything from a window of any College building, or throw 
 snow in the College yard, on penalty of a fine not exceeding five 
 dollars for each offense, and such other punishment as the Faculty 
 may think necessary. 
 
 XIII. No student, during term time, shall engage in a public 
 concert or in a regatta out of New Haven; or.in a regatta in New 
 Haven with persons who are not members of some department of 
 the College. 
 
 No student shall in term-time take part in the exhibition or act- 
 ing of any public theatrical performance or opera, in the city of 
 New Haven or elsewhere. 
 
 XIV. No student shall go out of the town of New Haven, soas 
 to be absent from any College exercise, without leave first ob- 
 tained. 
 
 XV. No student shall play at any unlawful game, or at any 
 game for a wager. ; 
 
 XVI. If a student shall be guilty of any serious impropriety of 
 conduct or inattention to College duties, he shall be admonished 
 by his instructor or any other member of the Faculty: and if he 
 continue unreformed, it shall be notified to the Faculty, who shall 
 admonish him again, and make known his case to his parent or 
 guardian ; if he continue still unreformed, he shall be sent home; 
 and shall never be readmitted, except by a major vote of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 XVII. Every student shall be answerable for all vicious, scan- 
 dalous, and immoral conduct during the several vacations, in the 
 same manner as in term-time. 
 
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 XVIII. No student shall be appointed, in any class, or subdi- 
 vision of a class, under any name, as a permanent leader or officer, 
 to preside in class meetings, or to be concerned in organizing, 
 arranging, or leading any procession or other assemblage of stu- 
 dents, on any occasion whatever; and no student shall take part 
 in delivering or accepting any insignia or badge of office of such 
 leader, or shall accept any such place in any class, or part of a 
 class, or, having received such an appointment, shall preside in 
 any meeting of the students, or attempt to exercise any authority 
 among them, or be concerned in organizing, arranging, or leading 
 any procession of students; on penalty of suspension, dismission, 
 or expulsion, according to the circumstances and aggravation of 
 the offense. 
 
 College processions shall not be formed except by permission 
 of the Faculty and subject to their direction; and on such occa- 
 sions no association or body of students, other than one of the 
 four Classes, shall have a place by themselves. 
 
 XIX. No student shall pay or give, or subscribe to pay or give 
 any sum of money or other article to any one who is or has been 
 an officer of the College; nor shall any officer of the College be 
 allowed to receive from any student any gratuity or present what- 
 soever. 
 
 The Faculty shall have power to prohibit any extravagant ex- 
 penditure of Classes or bodies of students. 
 
 XX. Any member of the Faculty shall have authority to enter, 
 and search any College room whenever circumstances shall arise 
 which in his judgment call for sucha course. If any student, 
 whether lodging in or out of College, shall refuse to admit a mem- 
 ber of Faculty, into his room, or to permit him to search the same, 
 or to assist in suppressing any disorder, he may receive such pun- 
 ishment as the nature and circumstances of the case require. 
 
 XXI. A student who shall refuse, when required by one of the 
 Faculty, to give a full and particular account of his own conduct 
 in connection with any disorder or violation of College laws, may 
 be sent home or dismissed. 
 
 XXII. Any combination or agreement to do any unlawful act, 
 or to forbear compliance with any injunction of lawful authority, 
 shall be deemed a high offense against the order of the College; 
 and if any such combination or agreement shall be formed, or if 
 
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 any disorder or act of disobedience shall be committed in conse- 
 quence thereof, such and so many of the offenders shall, upon due 
 conviction, be punished with admonition, suspension, dismission, 
 or expulsion, according to the circumstances of their offenses, as 
 shall be judged by the Faculty necessary for the preservation of 
 authority and order. 
 
 XXIII. In all cases where an offense is committed frequently 
 or daringly, the Faculty shall have power to enhance the punish- 
 ment at their discretion. 
 
 XXIV. In case of any violation of the College laws where the 
 laws themselves do not specify the penalty—as also in any case 
 not expressly mentioned in the laws, where the rules of propriety 
 or morality are clearly violated: the Faculty shall proceed accord- 
 ing to their best discretion, and may inflict upon a student any 
 College punishment, according to the nature and circumstances 
 of his offense. 
 
 XXV. Every judgment for expulsion, dismission for fault, send- 
 ing a student home, and the second admonition specified in the 
 sixteenth section of this chapter, shall be by the Faculty; and a 
 record of all penalties thus imposed upon the students, with the 
 reasons for the same, shall be kept under the direction of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 XXVI. If any student shall consider himself aggrieved by any 
 judgment, he shall have the liberty, at any time within thirty days 
 after the same shall have been given, of applying to the President, 
 by a petition in writing, for a new trial; and on such petition the 
 President shall, within a convenient time, order a new trial to be 
 had ; and provided, on such new trial. the former judgment shall 
 be confirmed, such student, still considering himself aggrieved, 
 or, in case he shall be a minor, his parent or guardian, shall have 
 the liberty of bringing a petition to the Corporation for relief; 
 which petition he shall lodge with the President within thirty 
 days after the said new trial ; and the President shall lay the said 
 petition before the Corporation at their next meeting. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Of the Library—of the Chapel. 
 
 I. Members of the Corporation, members of the several Facul- 
 ties, graduates of the College residing in New Haven, and stu- 
 dents in the various departments of the College, shall be entitled 
 to borrow books from the Library. The power to extend the 
 privileges of the Library to other persons shall rest with the Li- 
 brary Committee. 
 
 II. Before borrowing books from the Library, students in the 
 Law, Medical, and Scientific Departments, shall deposit with the 
 Librarian a bond, signed by one of the Professors in the College 
 or other responsible person, for the safe-keeping and return of 
 such books as they may borrow. 
 
 III. The College Library shall be open for the consultation and 
 delivery of books during five hours of each secular day of the 
 week during term-time,—days of public fast and thanksgiving 
 and such other public days as the Library Committee may deter- 
 mine upon excepted. The Library Committee shall regulate the 
 opening of the Library during the vacations. 
 
 IV. No person except the President of the College and the 
 Librarians shall have a key to the Library. 
 
 V. The Librarian shall register all books borrowed from the 
 Library. No person shall take a book from the Library without 
 the knowledge and consent of the Librarian, under penalty of 
 being excluded from the use of the Library, and, if an undergrad- 
 uate, of such other penalty as the Faculty may see fit to inflict. 
 
 VI. No person shall keep more than four volumes from the Col- 
 lege Library and four volumes from the Linonian and Brothers’ 
 Library at any one time, and no book shall be kept for a longer 
 period than three weeks, with the privilege, however, of renewal 
 for a like period, if it has not been called for in the meantime. 
 From the operation of this rule, members of the Corporation and 
 of the Faculties are excepted. 
 
 VII. All books shall be returned to the Library at least one 
 week before Commencement Day in each year. 
 
 VIII. The ordinary detention of a book beyond three weeks 
 shall be suvject to a fine of five cents a day, and such detention 
 
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 after a notice of the fact has been sent, or after Wednesday of the 
 week before Commencement Day, shall be subject to a fine of ten 
 cents a day. 
 
 IX. No person shall, without the permission of the Librarian, 
 lend to another, or carry out of the city of New Haven, a book 
 belonging to the Library. 
 
 X. All injury which a book may have received while in the pos- 
 session of the borrower, he shall make good to the satisfaction of 
 the Librarian, and in case of the loss of a volume, he shall replace 
 it or pay the value thereof, or if the volume be one of a set, he 
 shall replace or pay the value of the whole set. 
 
 XI. Works which on account of their character or their value 
 ought not to be removed from the Library, such as costly illustra- 
 ted works, works of reference, and unbound periodicals, shall not 
 be borrowed without the consent of the Library Committee. 
 
 XII. For the willful violation of the foregoing rules, or of the 
 regulations established for the good order of the Library apart- 
 ments, the Librarian shall have authority to suspend the person so 
 offending from the use of the Library until the case can be acted 
 on by the Library Committee. 
 
 XIII. The Chapel shall not be used for meetings of students 
 without permission of the Faculty, nor unless some member of 
 the Faculty is present. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 Of College Dues and Term Bills. 
 
 I. Students shall be charged for the half rent of a room in Col- 
 lege, including sweeping, making beds, efc., from twelve anda 
 half to seventy dollars per year, according to the location. Every 
 student shall be charged one hundred and seventeen dollars per 
 year for tuition, and twenty-three dollars per year for incidental 
 expenses, apportioned among the terms according to the number 
 of weeks :—likewise in the bill of the term ending at Commence- 
 ment, the candidates for the first degree shall be charged eighteen 
 dollars, which sum shall include the charges for general expenses 
 attending Commencement, the public dinner, triennial catalogues, 
 the degree and diploma, and also the charges for the music on 
 Commencement Day, which shall be under the control of the Fac- 
 ulty, and not paid for by the graduating class or a part of them. 
 
 If any student, at his own request, and by permission of the 
 Faculty, shall occupy alone a room fitted for two occupants in one 
 of the College buildings, he shall be charged for the whole rent 
 and care of the room, and ten per cent. in addition. 
 
 II. If after any vacation, any student shall join his Class, by 
 attending a recitation or other literary exercise, and shall after- 
 wards during the term, and before the bills of the term are made 
 up, be dismissed from the College, he shall pay for tuition a pro- 
 portional part of the charge for the term, making no allowance for 
 the unexpired fraction of a week ; and for room-rent, and all other 
 things usually charged in the term-bills, the same as would have 
 been charged him if he had continued a member of the College 
 till the close of the term. 
 
 If a student is absent from College on leave on account of sick- 
 ness, or for any other cause, and still retains his place in the class, 
 he shall pay, during such absence, the same tuition as is charged 
 to other members of the same class. 
 
 IiIl. When any student, after being sent away from College, 
 shall be readmitted, he shall pay to the College Treasurer a sum 
 equal to the whole of the tuition money, which he would have 
 paid for the standing to which he is admitted, had he not been dis- 
 missed. If a student takes a dismission from College, and sub- 
 sequently enters again, at an advanced standing, he shall pay five 
 dollars per term for the intermediate time. 
 
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 IV. At the close of the first, and at the middle and close of the 
 second term, a bill shall be prepared for each student, bearing 
 date from the last day of the term or half-term, containing the 
 charges of the Treasurer against him for the term or half-term, 
 which bill shal! be due and payable at its date, with interest for 
 all the time afterwards during which it shall remain unpaid ; P7o- 
 vided, that no student who shall pay his term-bill within two 
 weeks after the end of the vacation or recess next following the 
 date of the said bill, shall be charged interest on the same. 
 
 V. If any student shall not pay his term-bill as above required, 
 and, shall not, within two weeks after the close of the vacation or 
 recess, render to the Treasurer a satisfactory reason for the delay, 
 he may be forbidden to recite until such payment shall be made 
 or such reason rendered. 
 
 VI. The Treasurer shall report to the Prudential Committee of 
 the Corporation, near the close of each term, all students who 
 shall then remain indebted to him. And the Prudential Commit- 
 tee may limit a time within which each student reported as afore- 
 said shall pay or secure by such note as shall be satisfactory to 
 the Treasurer the bill or bills due from him. And if any student 
 shall neglect to pay or secure, as above provided, the amount due 
 from him to the Treasurer, within the time limited by the Pruden- 
 tial Committee, he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the 
 College: Provided, however, that the Prudential Committee may 
 extend to indigent students such indulgence as to the payment or 
 security of their bills, as they shall think the circumstances of 
 each case require, and the interests of the College allow. 
 
 VII. Whenever, in pursuance of the provisions of the foregoing 
 section, the Prudential Committee shall have limited a time, 
 within which any student’s bills shall be paid, it shall be the duty 
 of the Treasurer to give immediate notice to the student’s bonds- 
 man of such limitation, and of the consequences of failure to pay 
 within the time specified. 
 
 If any student shall fail to pay, within two weeks after the close 
 of any vacation or recess, his bill of the preceding term or half term, 
 it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to give immediate notice thereot 
 to the bondsman of such student, unless the latter shall have de- 
 posited with the Treasurer a certificate from his bondsman or guard- 
 ian, that the means of payment have not been furnished him, or shall 
 have presented to the Treasurer a satisfactory reason for the delay. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 Of Academical Degrees. 
 
 I. No student shall receive the first degree who has not attended 
 and performed the course of academical exercises, as appointed 
 by law, for the space of four years: except such as have been reg- 
 ularly admitted to an advanced standing; nor unless on the final 
 examination he shall have been approved as a candidate for the 
 same; and also have paid his dues to the Treasurer, by the Mon- 
 day before the Commencement. All candidates for the first 
 degree shall be personally present, unless excused by the Faculty 
 or by the President and Fellows. 
 
 II. No candidate shall receive the second degree unless he shall 
 have given to the Faculty evidence of having made satisfactory 
 progress in liberal and non-professional studies after receiving 
 his first degree. 
 
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