L aw s OF THE University of Mississippi. 1871. LAWS UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. Approved and Adopted by the Trustees, dune, 1871. UNIV OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI. 1S71. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY, CHAPTER I. OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT. Art. i. The government and instruction of all students of the University shall be committed to a Chancellor and such Faculties as the Board of Trustees may establish. Art. 2. The government of all undergraduates shall be intrusted to the Chancellor and such Professors as the Board of Trustees may appoint, to give instruction in the several departments of science and letters, who shall be styled the Faculty of Arts. Art. 3. The Chancellor shall be ex-qfficio the presiding officer of the Faculty of Arts. This Faculty shall elect annually a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Librarian. Art. 4. The Faculty of Arts shall have power — 1. To establish all by-laws and make all needful regulations for the maintenance of good order and proper police, and for the enforcement of discipline. 2. To determine the curriculum of studies in the Depart- ment of Arts, under such general provisions as may be herein- after established. 3. To prescribe what text-books shall be used. 4. To arrange the hours of daily study, religious exercises, and recitations. 5. To try and punish all undergraduates for violations of these laws, or of any of its own regulations. 6. To determine the relative standing of undergraduates, and their arrangement in classes. 7. To establish a system of demerits for delinquencies. 8. To establish, suppress, regulate, and control literary and other associations. 9. To suspend the exercises of the University upon occasions of great public moment or interest, or in case of emergency, or upon the occurrence of a death in the University, or upon the appearance of a dangerous epidemic; but this authority shall not extend to occasions of a purely political character. 4 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. Art. 5. The Faculty of Arts shall meet regularly once each week; but the Chancellor shall have power to dispense with such meetings, from time to time, when in his judgment the interests of the University will not be prejudiced in consequence. Art. 6. The Chancellor, at the request of two Professors, shall at any time call a meeting of the Faculty of Arts. t Art. 7. The Chancellor shall have power to call extra meetings of the Faculty. Art. 8. In Faculty meetings all matters of business shall be de- termined by the vote of the majority, including the Chancellor, and when the members present shall be equally divided the Chancellor shall also have a casting vote. Art. 9. The Chancellor shall have power to grant leave of absence from the University for reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he shall judge the occasion to require. Art. 10. He shall have power and it shall be his duty to visit, from time to time, the classes of the several departments of the Uni- versity, and to give such directions and perform such acts generally as shall in his judgment promote the interest of the Institution, pro- vided that they do not contravene the organic law, the laws of the Board of Trustees, or the decisions of the Faculty. Art. 11. The Chancellor shall be directly chargeable with the dis- cipline and police of the University ; but he may at any time require the assistance of any or all of the members of the several Faculties. He shall control and preside at all public exhibitions or assemblies of the body of the University, and shall superintend all examinations. ^Art. 12. The Chancellor shall report to the Trustees annually, and as occasion may require, concerning the state of the University, and suggest measures that may be necessary to promote its prosperity. Art. 13. It shall be the duty of all Professors to maintain and enforce discipline and police within their respective departments, and to report upon and correct all irregularities falling under their observa- tion respectively, at any time and place. Art. 14. Assistant or adjunct Professors shall have all the rights and authorities of Professors. Art. 15. Tutors who may be appointed from time to time shall receive their instructions from and report to the Professor or Professors in whose department or departments they may be required to serve. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. 5 They shall have the same power and authority to preserve order and enforce discipline as a Professor • and shall be shown the same defer- ence and respect by students. Art. 16. They may be appointed to office by the Faculty of Arts, and shall be required to attend all Faculty meetings. Art. 17. The Professors shall take precedence according to the dates of their appointment, and in the absence of the Chancellor, or in case of his disability to discharge his duties, the senior Professor shall act as Chancellor, and shall have the same authority to command obedience and enforce the discipline of the University among the under- graduates as the Chancellor possesses. Art. 18. If a Professor in any other Faculty shall be required by the terms of his appointment to give instructions to undergraduates, he shall be likewise a member of the Faculty of Arts. Art. 19. No officer of the University shall excuse a class from assembling at the time and place appointed for lecture or recitation, or from the performance of any regular scholastic exercise, without the consent of the Chancellor ; nor shall any undergraduate be excused from recitation or lecture except for such reason as the .Chancellor shall deem sufficient. Art. 20. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Faculty of Arts. He shall mention in such proceedings the names of all members who may be absent. These minutes shall be subject to the inspection of the Board of Trus- tees at any time. Art. 21. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to receive and answer all official letters pertaining to the affairs of the University, under such instructions as may be given him, from time to time, by the Faculty. Art. 22. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to have charge of and care for all books belonging to the University ; to keep a record of all books taken from and returned to the library, which he will con- trol under such regulation as may be adopted by the Faculty of Arts. He shall make such reports, from time to time, as he may deem neces- sary, or as may be called for by proper authority. Art. 23. The Trustees shall appoint a Proctor, whose duties shall be to superintend all the buildings of the University; to inspect the dormitories and other buildings once in each week ; to note the dam- ages and assess the expense according to law ; and to have the needful O LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. repairs made immediately, so as to keep the whole in perfect order. To have everything kept in fair working order in the various depart- ments: to cause a proper supply of fuel to be furnished to the dormitories and the public rooms; to see that the fuel is properly measured as laid down on the grounds ; to superintend the mechanics and servants, and direct their operations ; and to make out all bills for materials for the use of the University, and to report to the Executive Committee. CHAPTER II. COURSE OF STUDY. In the plan of instruction of the University three general depart- ments shall be included, viz.: i. A Department of Preparatory Education; 2. A Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts ; 3. A Department of Professional Education. I. Department of Preparatory Education. Under the first of these general departments is included a Univer- sity High School, in which shall be taught all those branches of study preliminary to the University courses, viz.: English, Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, together with a course of Commercial Science, including Penmanship and Book-keeping. II. Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts. Under the second are included six distinct courses of study, four of which shall be undergraduate parallel courses, and two shall be post-graduate courses. 1. Undergraduate Courses. — The four Undergraduate Parallel Courses shall be known as — 1. The Course for Bachelor of Arts; 2. The Course for Bachelor of Science; 3. The Course for Bachelor of Philosophy ; and 4. The Course for Civil Engineer. A student has free choice of these courses, but the studies prescribed for each course are all compulsory for that course. The Course for Bachelor of Arts requires four years for its com- pletion, and embraces the studies following : For the first year, English, Latin, Greek, Mathematics; for the second year, English, Latin, Greek, Mathematics, History, Physics; for the third year, LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. J Physics, Metaphysics, Rhetoric, Greek, Latin, French, Chemistry; for the fourth year, Optics, Astronomy, Geology, Political Economy, Ethics, English, French, Greek. The Course for Bachelor of Science requires three years for its completion, and embraces the studies following: For the first year, English, Latin, Botany, History, Mathematics; for the second year, English Literature, Physics, Mathematics, Political Economy, Rhetoric, Chemistry ; for the third year, Physics, Optics, Geology, French, Ethics, Metaphysics. The Course for Bachelor of Philosophy requires three years for its completion, and embraces the studies following: For the first year, English Language and Literature, Botany, Mathematics ; for the second year, Political Economy, History, Chemistry, Mathematics; for the third year, Physics, Rhetoric, Geology, Ethics, Metaphysics. The Course for Civil Engineer requires four years for its comple- tion, and embraces the studies following : For the first year, English Language and Literature, French, Botany, Mathematics ; for the second year, Drawing, Mathematics, French; for the third year, Physics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Engineering ; for the fourth year, History, Optics, Geology, Engineering, Ethics. 2. Post-graduate Courses. — The two Post-graduate Courses shall be known as — i. The Course for Master of Arts; 2. The Course for Doctor of Philosophy. The Course for Master of Arts requires one year additional to the Bachelor of Arts Course, and embraces in addition to the studies of that course an extended course in any three of the following, viz.: French, Latin, German, Anglo-Saxon, Greek, Hebrew, Ethics, Meta- physics, History, on which the candidate must sustain a satisfactory examination, and submit an approved thesis. The Course for Doctor of Philosophy requires two years in addi- tion to the Course for Bachelor of Arts, and embraces the following additional studies : For the first year, Practical Chemistry, Practical Mineralogy, and Practical Botany. For the second year, Practical Chemistry, Practical Geology, Practical Zoology, and Practical As- tronomy. On any three of these studies the candidate must sustain a satisfactory examination, and present an approved thesis. III. Department of Professional Education. Under the third general department are embraced two Professional Schools, viz.: 1. A School of Law and Governmental Science; 2. A School of Medicine and Surgery. 8 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. The School of Law and Governmental Science, when complete in its organization, shall be presided over by four Professors. The School of Medicine and Surgery, when organized, shall be furnished with a Faculty sufficiently large to meet all demands for this form of professional education. CHAPTER III. ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE OF UNDERGRADUATES. Art. i. Applicants for admission into the first year's class of the Bachelor of Arts Course must be able to sustain a satisfactory exami- nation on English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Fundamental Principles, Fractions, both common and decimal, Ratio and Proportion, Percentage, Involution and Evolution. Students will be examined also upon Algebra, Davies' Elementary, through Equations of the second degree ; and, besides the foregoing, the following books, or the equiva- lent, in Latin and Greek: Latin Grammar (Harkness' or Andrews and Stoddard's), Caesar, Cicero's Orations against Catiline, four books of the ^Eneid of Virgil, and Hadley's Greek Grammar, with Whiton's First Lessons in Greek. Art. 2. Applicants for advanced classes must be proficient in the studies prescribed in preliminary classes. Art. 3. Candidates for the first year's class of the Bachelor of Science Course will be examined on all the studies required for the first year of the Bachelor of Arts Course except the Greek. Art. 4. Candidates for the Bachelor of Philosophy Course and the Civil Engineering will be examined on the same, with the addition of the whole of Davies' Elementary Algebra, or its equivalent, and omitting both the Latin and Greek languages. Art. 5. The age of admission to the first year of any course is at least sixteen years, and a proportional increase of age is required for an advanced class. In case of superior qualifications the Faculty have power to dispense with this requisition. Art. 6. Certificates of good moral character are required of all candidates for admission ; and if from another College, this certificate must show that the student was honorably discharged. Art. 7. Candidates for admission must report to the Chancellor or Vice-chancellor within twenty-four hours after their arrival. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. 9 Art. 8. All the requisitions for admission shall be annually pub- lished in the college catalogue, and the Faculty shall have power, from time to time, with the concurrence of the Board, to modify these requisitions as the exigencies of the University may seem to require. Art. 9. Every student, upon his entrance into college, shall be earnestly admonished by the Chancellor of his responsibility to the laws and regulations of the University, and of his duty to yield them implicit obedience; and he shall be required to state that he has no fire-arms or deadly weapons in his possession, or in the possession of others for him, or if he have such to deliver the same to the Chan- cellor. Art. 10. The principle that distinguishes the present scheme of the University is that of election of courses running parallel, but with class organization. A student may choose any one of four courses, but all the studies prescribed in any course are compulsory for that course, and necessary to the degree for which the student is a candidate. No student will be permitted to drop any given study until he has com- pleted the term examination in that study. Students, however, may pursue select studies, for such a length of time as they may choose, under certain restrictions. Art. 11. An honorable discharge shall in all cases be granted to students withdrawing from the University, except to those expelled or withdrawing under sentence of suspension ; but no undergraduate shall be entitled to a discharge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given personally or in writing to the Chancellor. The certificate of discharge shall not be delivered to the student himself, but shall be sent to the parent or guardian, at his usual post-office, or delivered to him in person. Art. 12. So soon as the student shall have been admitted to the University, he shall be presented with a copy of these Laws. CHAPTER IV. dormitories. Arjt. i. All undergraduates not residing with their parents or re- lations in the vicinity of the University, shall be required to occupy rooms in the college dormitories, unless the Chancellor, for satisfactory reasons, shall permit them to reside elsewhere. 10 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. Art. 2. The lodging of students, in or out of the dormitories, shall be under the exclusive control of the Chancellor; and any student who shall refuse to conform to the Chancellor's directions on this sub- ject shall be dismissed from the University. Art. 3. The allotment of rooms for the session shall be made immediately upon the opening of the session. No changes of rooms during the session shall be made without the consent of the Chancellor. No student who is absent without permission at the time of allotment shall have any room reserved for him, and any student who shall be absent during the session by permission, and shall fail to return at the expiration of his leave of absence, shall forfeit his title to the room which he has occupied. Each lodging room of the dormitories shall be occupied by at least two students, and if any student occupying a room shall voluntarily fail to obtain a room-mate, he shall pay double the contingent fee fixed by Article 2, Chapter VIII., to be apportioned by the Proctor to the length of time he shall so occupy it. Art. 4. In discharge of the duties devolving on the Chancellor, under the regulations of this chapter, he shall have the assistance, if necessary, of the other officers of the Faculty. Art. 5. No undergraduate shall have lodgings, either in term time or vacation, in any public house in Oxford j provided that whenever the accommodations at the University are insufficient, and the Faculty are satisfied that lodgings can not be obtained in private families within a reasonable distance, permission may be granted students to lodge at public houses until other accommodations shall be obtained. CHAPTER V. TERMS OF STUDY AND VACATION. Art. 1. The annual session shall begin on the first Wednesday of October, and end on the last Thursday of June. That part of the session ending about the 15 th of February shall be known as the first term, the remainder as the second term. Art. 2. During the session scholastic exercises shall proceed un- interruptedly, except that the Faculty shall have power to suspend the same during the Christmas holidays. Art. 3. During vacations no student shall reside in the University buildings unless by the express consent of the Chancellor. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. II Art. 4. If any student be withdrawn from the University during the session by his parent or guardian without the consent of the Chancellor, he shall cease to be a member of the University ; but may, if he wish to return, apply for re-admission, subject to examination and to the same requirements as an original applicant ; and in all cases when a student absents himself during the session for a period of one week or more, although with the permission of the Chancellor, he shall upon his return be subject to examination if the Faculty require it, and shall not be entitled to re-enter his class unless his examination be satisfactory. Art. 5. The vacations during the year are two. The summer vacation begins on the last Friday of June and continues until the first Wednesday of October, and the recess at Christmas begins on or near the 24th of December and closes on the 1st of January. CHAPTER VI. LIBRARY, LABORATORY, OBSERVATORY, &c. Art. i. The members of the Board of Trustees, the members of the University, and those who have once belonged to either of these bodies, resident graduates, professional students, and undergraduates, shall have the privilege of drawing books from the Library j but this permission shall be extended to no other person except by express order of the Faculty of Arts. Art. 2. The Faculty shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to regulate the time and manner of drawing books and returning them, assess and collect damages for books injured or lost, and to do gener- ally whatever is necessary for the management, use, and preservation of the Library. If there be in the Library works which in their judg- ment ought not to be exposed to the danger of injury from removal, they may require that such works be not taken from the Library. Art. 3. All books shall be returned to the Library at least ten days before commencement. Art. 4. The Librarian shall make to the Chancellor annually, at least one week before commencement, a report on the state of the Library, including lists of additions to the Library, and of the losses and injuries which it may have sustained during the year, which report the Chancellor shall communicate to the Board of Trustees. 12 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. Art. 5. No student shall be entitled to receive a discharge from the college until he shall have exhibited to the President a certificate from the Librarian, showing that he has returned all books to the Library; and no candidate for graduation shall receive his diploma without exhibiting a similar certificate. ' Art. 6. The Observatory, Philosophical Lecture-room, and depot of Philosophical Apparatus, with all the instruments and apparatus relating to Astronomy and to the several branches of Natural Philoso- phy; all the outfit and models belonging to the Department of Engineering, the Chemical Laboratory, with all the chemical re-agents and other stock, and all the apparatus relating to this Department of Science ; also the cabinet of Minerals, Rocks, Fossils, and Shells, and all the Geological collections and specimens, and all appertaining to any of the Natural Sciences, shall be under the care of the Professors in these several departments, who shall be responsible for their safe- keeping and preservation. Art. 7. The Reading-room is established for the benefit of the Faculty and students, and shall be furnished with such newspapers as a committee, to be appointed by the President of the Board, may select. Art. 8. Such foreign and American reviews and magazines as may be recommended by the Faculty and approved by the Executive Com- mittee shall be subscribed for by the Secretary, and at the end of each year they shall be bound substantially for preservation and deposited in the Library. Art. 9. The Reading-room shall be under the charge of the Libra- rian, subject to the supervision of the Chancellor. CHAPTER VII. DISCIPLINE. Art. 1. The penalties for misconduct to be imposed upon under- graduates shall be : admonition, warning, recorded demerit, suspension, dismission, or expulsion. Art. 2. If any student shall give, accept, or bear a challenge to fight a duel ; or shall, as second, friend, or abettor, be in any manner connected with a duel ; or shall use, or threaten by word, attitude, or gesture to use, any deadly weapon in a quarrel ; or shall be active in promoting any combination to interrupt the exercises or to resist the authorities of the University ; or shall be guilty of gambling ; or shall LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. 1 3 commit any offense for which an infamous punishment is fixed by the municipal law, he may be expelled ; nor, after full conviction of any one of the offenses enumerated in this section, shall any student receive a milder punishment than expulsion; nor shall any person thus ex- pelled be received again as a member of the University, except by a vote of two thirds of the Faculty present. Art. 3. Any disrespect or insult to any officer of the Faculty shall be punished according to the aggravation of the offense. If the insult be gross the offender shall be expelled. Art. 4. The following offenses shall be deemed misdemeanors, and shall be punished according to the degree of their aggravation : bringing or causing to be brought intoxicating liquors of any kind to the University ; drinking intoxicating liquors ; being concerned in any riot ; making disturbances at night about the University, in the town of Oxford, or in any other place ; striking a fellow-student ; associating with any person of notoriously bad character; playing at cards or other gambling games ; having in possession fire-arms or any deadly weapon; willfully committing injury to the buildings or other prop- erty belonging to the University ; being concerned in any agreement or combination to resist the authority of the Faculty, or to inter- rupt the exercises of the University ; and doing any act, either singly or in concert with others, having a design or tendency to annoy any officer of the Faculty. Art. 5. No student shall keep a dog or other troublesome animal about the University; nor shall he play upon a musical instrument, or in any manner disturb his fellow-students during the hours allotted to study; nor shall any student be absent from his room during those hours or at night without permission. Art. 6. No student shall tear down or deface any notice posted by order of the Faculty or any of its officers; nor write or mark on the walls of the buildings, or otherwise disfigure them; nor disfigure the floor of the recitation or lecture-rooms, or of the public passages, by spitting upon them ; nor leave the University to go home, or to visit any remote place, without the Chancellor's express consent. Art. 7. No student shall drive or ride for amusement on Sunday in the town of Oxford, or the vicinity of Oxford or the University ; nor shall any student hire or engage any horse or vehicle to be used on that day by himself or others, for any purpose whatever, unapproved by the Chancellor; nor shall any undergraduate keep a horse at the University or in its vicinity while he remains a member of the same. 14 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. Art. 8. Offenses against good order and propriety, and delinquen- cies generally, not especially enumerated in these regulations, shall be punished according to the nature and circumstances of the case. Art. 9. Deficient scholarship and negligent attendance on college exercises shall always be sufficient cause for requiring a student to withdraw from the University, after due notice to himself and to his parent or guardian by the Faculty ; and in such cases, if the student be charged with no moral delinquency, he shall receive a simple cer- tificate of discharge, imputing no censure ; but such certificate, instead of being delivered to the student himself, shall be sent to his parent or guardian. Art. 10. Whenever a student shall be frequently absent from his scholastic exercises, though for sufficient reason, the Faculty shall call the attention of the parent or guardian to the fact ; that if there be no improvement in this respect they shall advise the withdrawal of such student ; and in case a student be manifestly making ill use of his time, from whatever cause, his withdrawal may be advised in like manner. Art. 11. Whenever a student is suspended he shall leave the col- lege grounds within twenty-four hours after being notified of the fact, and the town of Oxford, if not a resident thereof, within forty-eight hours after receiving such notification, unless the Chancellor for suffi- cient reason see fit to grant a longer delay. Disregard of this regu- lation shall be punished according to the circumstances of the case ; but if the disregard be defiant the offender shall be expelled. Art. 12. The Faculty shall cause circular letters to be sent monthly and at the expiration of each term to parents or guardians of all undergraduates, in which shall be stated the standing of such students in scholarship, the degree of their regularity or irregularity of attend- ance upon college exercises, their general deportment, and the re- corded demerits, if any, against them. Art. 13. Should the Faculty at any time believe that an under- graduate student is falling into idle or pernicious habits, then, through the Chancellor as their organ, they shall make known their impressions to the parent or guardian of the student, with the grounds on which it is founded ; and it shall be their duty at all times, and in the fullest manner, to acquaint the friends of every student with whatever would be likely to give them anxiety in regard to the welfare of such student. Art. 14. Students shall not be exempt from responsibility to the authorities of the University for censurable acts committed in the vacations or while absent from the University during the session. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. 1 5 CHAPTER VIII. COLLEGE DUES, DAMAGES, &c. Art. i. Tuition fees in the regular courses of the Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts are abolished for all students residing in the state of Mississippi. In all special schools the fees remain unchanged. A fee of fifty dollars is charged for all students coming from other states. A matriculation fee of ten dollars is required from all students. Art. 2. In addition to his tuition fee each student, upon entering, shall deposit with the Proctor of the University the sum of five dollars to cover contingent damages. At the expiration of the session, should no charges be made against the student for damages as herein pro- vided, this sum shall be refunded, and in all cases the balance due the student, if any, shall, with the approval of the Chancellor, be refunded upon his graduating or final discharge. Any student may be required to deposit an additional sum in case the charges against him already exceed the sum herein specified. Art. 3. Every student residing in the dormitories during the en- tire session shall pay a fee of eighteen dollars, which shall entitle him to fuel. Art. 4. Students preparing for the Gospel Ministry from any state will be admitted into any class without tuition fee on application to the Faculty ; but whenever the student shall abandon such intention, or shall act in a manner inconsistent therewith, the fees so dispensed with shall be due. Art. 5. Any young man desirous of entering the University, but unable to pay for tuition, will be admitted by the Faculty without fee into any class on standing the regular examination, and producing certificates of good moral character and of his inability to pay ; such certificates to be signed by some resident clergyman, or the principal of some academy, or other person of respectability in the neighbor- hood from which he comes. Art. 6. In both cases strict secrecy shall be observed, and there shall be no difference in the treatment of different classes of students. Art. 7. The college buildings shall undergo inspection by the Proctor shortly before the close of the session, and at such times as the Chancellor may direct. All damages found to have been com- mitted by students in their own apartments shall be charged to such 1 6 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. students. All ordinary damages in the halls shall be charged to the occupants of rooms on such halls respectively. All similar damages to the public buildings and rooms shall be assessed on the whole body of the students. Art. 8. Students occupying rooms in the dormitories shall not be permitted to change their lodgings until their rooms shall have been submitted to inspection, and it shall be the duty of the Proctor to make at the time a record of such damages as may appear to be fairly chargeable to them. Art. 9. No student retiring from the University shall be entitled to receive a discharge until his room shall have been inspected, and his liability for damages ascertained and settled. Art. 10. No member of a lower class at the close of a session shall be entitled to rise to a higher, and no student at any time shall receive an honorable discharge from the University until he shall have exhibited to the Chancellor a certificate from the Proctor or Treas- urer that he is not indebted to the University on any account whatever. Art. 11. Students of the graduating classes shall pay all their dues previous to commencement-day, and no student shall be per- mitted to graduate or receive a diploma who shall have failed to present to the Chancellor a certificate from the Proctor or Treasurer that he has discharged all liabilities against him. Art. 12. Intentional or wanton damages upon the buildings or other property of the University shall be assessed upon the per- petrators, if discovered; otherwise they shall be assessed upon the occupants of the building or hall in which they occur, or, if not com- mitted in a dormitory, upon the whole body of students. CHAPTER IX. examinations and degrees. Art. 1. There shall be an examination of all classes at the close of each term. Art. 2. The manner and order of examinations shall be deter- mined by the Faculty, and shall be conducted in such manner as to secure perfect equality and fairness to all students. Art. 3. The five students most distinguished for scholarship in the second, third, and fourth year's classes respectively, as determined at the annual examination, shall be known as honor men, and their LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. \J names shall appear at the head of their several classes in the cata- logue ; provided that the Faculty of Arts may modify this law in particular cases, as when the number of students in a class do not justify such distinction, or when the scholarship in a class be not such as to warrant it. Art. 4. The three seniors who have most distinguished themselves throughout their entire course shall receive the graduating honors, and their names shall be published in the catalogue for the following year, and in all published catalogues of the Alumni particular mention shall be made of those receiving such distinction. Art. 5. The Faculty shall have power to determine what degree of weight shall be given to the examinations in comparison with other modes of determining standing in scholarship, and they may make the examinations the sole test of scholarship if they see fit. Art. 6. The Faculty at the close of each examination may, if they think proper, award to the students who shall have acquitted them- selves best testimonials of merit, which may be decorated with the seal of the University, and delivered to those entitled to them publicly on commencement-day by the Chancellor. The number of such distinc- tions to be awarded shall be determined by the Faculty. Art. 7. Students absenting themselves from any exercise of exam- ination without a satisfactory excuse shall cease to be members of the University. Students absent from some of the exercises or from a single exercise of the examination, though with excuse, shall not be entitled to a place in the merit-roll of their classes without the unani- mous vote of the Faculty. Art. 8. The members of the senior class of the B. A. Course, and those of the last year's classes of the other courses, who shall pass an approved examination, shall, on certificate made by the Faculty to that effect, be entitled to receive the degrees belonging to the several courses, and diplomas certifying to them this distinction shall be publicly delivered to them on commencement-day by the Chancellor. Art. 9. The degree of Master of Arts may be conferred by the Board on such as shall remain as resident graduates at the University, in the prosecution of literary and scientific studies, or shall pursue such studies elsewhere under the direction of a Professor of the Uni- versity j provided that it be certified to the Board by the Faculty that B 1 8 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. they are in their opinion worthy candidates for such distinction, having studied one year, sustained a satisfactory examination, and submitted an approved thesis. Art. io. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy may be conferred upon such as pursue advanced studies in any three of the Departments of Science, Literature, and the Arts, under the direction of the Faculty, after studying two years and passing a satisfactory examination, and submitting an approved thesis. Art. ii. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws may be conferred by the Board of Trustees on the recommen- dation of the Faculty. Art. 12. There shall be held on commencement-day a public ex- hibition, at which such candidates for graduation as may have been appointed by the Faculty for that purpose shall pronounce addresses, or exhibit such other literary performance as may have been assigned them. Art. 13. Every student appointed to deliver a public address on any occasion connected with the University shall present or rehearse his speech to the proper authority for examination, and shall conform to such directions as he may receive as to the matter, manner, style, and length of the same. Failure in this will subject the offender, if a candidate for graduation, to the liability of loosing his diploma, and if an undergraduate to such penalties as the Faculty may inflict. Art. 14. On a day during commencement week there shall be held a public exhibition, in which literary performances shall be exhibited by members of the junior class selected by the Faculty, or in such manner as the proper authorities shall prescribe. Art. 15. On the day preceding the junior exhibition, or at some other convenient time in commencement week before commencement- day, there shall be held a public exhibition, in which members of the sophomore class, selected by the Faculty or in such manner as the Faculty shall prescribe, shall declaim selected speeches ; and prizes shall be assigned to those whose elocution shall be most approved by a board appointed by the Chancellor. These prizes shall be publicly conferred on the successful competitors on such day as the Chancellor may select. Art. 16. On the Sunday preceding commencement-day a sermon shall be delivered before the college body, by some clergyman invited by the Faculty, whose traveling expenses shall be defrayed by the University. LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. 1 9 CHAPTER X. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. Art. 1. The instruction and government of students in the Law Department shall be intrusted to such Professors as the Board of Trustees shall appoint, who, together with the Chancellor of the Uni- versity, shall constitute the Law Faculty. Art. 2. It is to be presumed that professional students resort to the University more mature in mind, better established in principle, and more earnest in purpose than is usually the case with under- graduates. It may be therefore reasonably expected that they will ordinarily require no restraints but such as self-respect, convictions of duty, and deference for the opinion and usages of society may impose. Should, however, this reasonable expectation be disappointed in any case, the offender shall, generally in the first instance, be privately and kindly advised, and if afterward he shall persist in improprieties to such a degree as to bring upon or threaten reproach to the depart- ment he shall be excluded from the University. Art. 3. No public censure shall ordinarily be inflicted upon mem- bers of the Law Department ; but in case any student of that depart- ment shall commit any act for which an infamous punishment may be inflicted by the municipal law, the right is reserved to the Law Faculty to expel the offender. Art. 4. Law students shall have the use of the general Library, under the regulations established by the Faculty of Arts, as provided in Chapter VI. They shall have the use of the Law Library under such regulations as may be established by the Faculty of Law. Art. 5. The law students may attend experimental lectures in Physical Science or Chemistry, or lectures on other branches of Science and Letters, delivered by the Professors in the Faculty of Arts, by consent of such Professors j but in such cases they will not be entitled to any privileges or liberties not extended to the under- graduates attending at the same time. Art. 6. Applicants for admission must be at least nineteen years of age, and if not a graduate of some college will be required to exhibit satisfactory certificates of good moral character. Art. 7. Such students as may have accomplished the entire course prescribed by the Law Faculty, or its equivalent, shall be entitled to 20 LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. a diploma and the degree of Bachelor of Laws, to be conferred by the Board of Trustees upon recommendation of the Law Faculty. Such diploma is made equivalent by the laws of the state to a license to practice in any court. Art. 8. The Law Faculty shall have power to prescribe the course to be pursued and the method of instruction, and to make all needful regulations for the maintenance of good order, and the accomplish- ment of the ends for which it is instituted. Art. 9. The senior Professor of the Law Faculty shall make a written report to the Board of Trustees, through the Chancellor of the University, at the close of each collegiate year, in which he shall state the condition and wants of the Law Department, and give such other information as he may deem proper. 3 0112105734088