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 1855. 
 
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 Agreeably to the following laws 
 
 is admitted a member of this College. 
 
 President. 
 

 LAWS. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 I. The General Government and direction of Amherst 
 College is vested in its Corporation. 
 
 II. A Prudential Committee, elected by the Corporation, 
 has the power committed to it, generally or from time to time, 
 by that body. 
 
 III. The Immediate Government is vested in the Presi- 
 dent, Professors and Tutors, who shall be styled the Faculty 
 of Amherst College. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 I. It is the primary duty of the Faculty of the College to 
 educate its students. To this end, besides attending reci- 
 tations, giving lectures, &c, they will take the general state 
 of the College into frequent consideration — make such rules 
 and regulations, not conflicting with the College Laws, as may 
 be necessary t) the performance of their duties — take cogni- 
 zance of offences committed by the students, and inflict ap- 
 propriate penalties, earnestly seeking the promotion of virtue, 
 piety, good manners and good learning in the institution. 
 
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They will also, from time to time, propose to the Corporation^ 
 any laws and measures, by which, in their judgment the system 
 of instruction and discipline may be improved. 
 
 II. The President has authority to convene the Faculty for 
 business or advice, whenever he may think it expedient, and 
 all matters which by law are referred to them shall be deter- 
 mined by a major vote of the members present, provided al- 
 ways that the President concurs in the same ; and it shall be 
 the duty of the Professors and Tutors to give their opinion 
 and advice in any matter whenever requested by him. 
 
 III. The President, Professors and Tutors, severally have 
 power to direct in all matters relating to the immediate gov- 
 ernment of the College — to control the students and to exer- 
 cise discipline in all cases, except those which are referred by 
 law to the Faculty, provided that no Professor or Tutor may 
 in any case proceed contrary to the advice of the President. 
 
 IV. The Faculty shall appoint all classical exercises and 
 examinations, and designate the authors which shall be read 
 and recited by the respective classes — arranging the order of 
 studies as from time to time they shall judge fit. And it shall 
 be the duty of the President to exhibit to the Corporation at 
 the Commencement, or whenever required by them, a view of 
 the course of instruction and of the internal condition of the 
 College. The Professors also shall make a written report of 
 their respective departments. 
 
 V. As the responsibility of carrying on the entire system 
 of instruction and government of the College devolves on the 
 Faculty as a body, each member is bound to perform miscel- 
 laneous duties which do not strictly belong to any department 
 of instruction, and which by vote of the Faculty are assigned 
 to him. And whenever by sickness, death or otherwise, one 
 or more of the officers of instruction is absent, the rest are ex- 
 pected to divide his duties among them, regard being had to 
 what may be considered, as on the whole, an equitable distri- 
 bution of labor. If in any case the Faculty should find them- 
 selves unable to make such arrangement, or where more teach- 
 
ers are needed, application may be made to the Prudential 
 Committee or to the Corporation* 
 
 VI. At the beginning of the first term in each Collegiate 
 year, it shall be the duty of the Faculty to appoint one of their 
 number Secretary, who shall keep a fair record of all their 
 votes and decisions to be presented to the Corporation for 
 their inspection when called for. 
 
 VII. The Faculty are authorized to license special teach- 
 ers, of elocution, of languages not contained in the College 
 course, of exercises conducive to health, &c, and the students 
 are not permitted to attend on teachers not thus licensed. 
 Also to regulate the dress of the undergraduates, so far as is 
 needed to prevent their appearing in improper apparel. The 
 Faculty will also appoint from time to time one of their num- 
 ber to act as the particular officer of each class, and to serve 
 as the ordinary medium of communication between the student 
 and the Faculty. 
 
 VIII. In all cases when an emergency may arise in the 
 administration of the affairs of College, the President shall 
 have power to call a special meeting of the Corporation, if he 
 shall think it expedient, though when circumstances will allow 
 he will be expected to consult with the Prudential Committee, 
 in reference to the calling of such a meeting. 
 
 IX. In case of the death or resignation of the President, 
 it devolves on the Prudential Committee as soon as convenient, 
 to call a meeting of the Corporation ; meanwhile the govern- 
 ment of the College is committed to the Professors and Tutors, 
 who will exercise the powers entrusted to the entire Faculty. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 ADMISSION. 
 
 I. Before any person can be admitted into this College, he 
 must produce satisfactory evidence to the Faculty, that he 
 sustains a fair moral character. 
 
II. No person can be admitted into the Freshman class 
 until he has completed his fourteenth year, nor to an advanced 
 standing, without proportional increase of age. 
 
 III. Every candidate for admission will be examined by 
 the President and a Professor, or Tutor, or under the direction 
 of the President, by one or more of the Faculty. 
 
 IV. The present requisites for admission are a knowledge 
 of common Arithmetic, of Algebra through simple equations, 
 of Geography, ancient and modern, and of English, Latin and 
 Greek Grammar, including Latin Prosody ; and an ability to 
 translate English into Latin, and to sustain a satisfactory ex- 
 amination in Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Sallust or Cae- 
 sar's Commentaries, Xenophon's Anabasis, and two books of 
 the Iliad. 
 
 V. No one, (even from another college), can be admitted 
 to an advanced standing, until he shall frave undergone a sat- 
 isfactory examination in all the studies completed by the class 
 which he proposes to enter ; and no one can be admitted to 
 such standing after the middle of the second term of the Se- 
 nior year. 
 
 VI. No student can be permitted to attend the College 
 exercises, until he shall have been regularly examined and ap- 
 proved. 
 
 VII. Every student on his admission into College, will re- 
 ceive a printed copy of the Laws, which, when signed by the 
 President, shall be the evidence of his Matriculation. At the 
 end of the first term, he shall be entitled to obtain the Presi- 
 dent's signature, provided his scholarship is satisfactory and 
 his conduct shall have been in all respects conformed to the 
 Laws of College. But when this proviso has not been real- 
 ized, the student's probation may be protracted, or he may be 
 sent from College, at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 VIII. Every student, when he is admitted, shall sign an 
 engagement in the following form : " I do hereby promise and 
 engage, that I will observe and conform to all the laws and 
 regulations made by the government of Amherst College for 
 the students." 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 TERM BILLS. 
 
 I. Every student upon his admission will be required to 
 pay the bill of his first term in advance, and give a satisfac- 
 tory bond to the Treasurer in the sum of one hundred dollars, 
 for the payment of future bills. 
 
 II. Candidates for an advanced standing, when admitted, 
 pay to the College Treasurer half the amount of tuition which 
 shall have been charged to others of the class up to that .time, 
 provided that any student who comes with an honorable dis- 
 mission from another College, may be admitted to the stand- 
 ing for which he shall be found qualified, without any charge 
 for the time he was member of such College. The payment 
 for advanced standing may also be remitted to indigent stu- 
 dents at the discretion of the Prudential Committee. 
 
 III. Before any student, after a dismission from College, 
 can be readmitted, he must pay to the Treasurer a sum equal 
 to the tuition which he would have paid for the standing to 
 which he is admitted had he not been dismissed. 
 
 IV. All bills are payable at the office of the Treasurer. 
 
 V. Near the end of each term a bill shall be made out in 
 form against every student, which he is required to pay on 
 the first Monday of the succeeding term. Interest will be 
 charged on all bills nbt paid when due, and the Treasurer 
 will give notice of non-payment by any student, to his parent, 
 guardian or friend. Absence from College for a term or a 
 part of a term will not excuse a student from paying the full 
 amount of tuition. 
 
 VI. Each student, at the end of his Senior year, shall pay 
 into the Treasury three dollars for the Commencement dinner, 
 and to defray the expense of printing the Triennial Cata- 
 logues. 
 
 VII. Every candidate for the first or second degree in this 
 College, will pay one dollar into the Treasury for his diploma 
 and four dollars as a perquisite to the President. 
 
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 VIII. No student of the graduating class is exempt from 
 the College laws till he has received his Degree or has been 
 dismissed from College, and no student shall be entitled to a 
 Degree, till he has presented a certificate from the Treasurer 
 that all his bills have been paid, and from the Librarian, that 
 all books taken by him from the Library have been returned. 
 
 IX. The appointees in the Senior and Junior classes will 
 have liberty to decide by vote whether they will have instru- 
 mental music at their exhibition and of what kind. But their 
 decision, in order to be binding upon each appointee, must be 
 confirmed by the government of the College. At Commence- 
 ment the same power and the same limitations are given to 
 the Senior class, all of whom are required to pay equally for 
 the music, of which the Faculty have voted an approval, and 
 in neither case for any other music. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, AND OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S DAY. 
 
 I. As it is the duty of the Faculty diligently to watch over 
 the morals of the students, recommending to them both by 
 precept and example a virtuous and blameless life, and a de- 
 vout attention to the duties of religion; the President, or one 
 of the Professors or Tutors shall every morning and evening 
 conduct the devotional exercises in the Chapel, by reading a 
 portion of Scripture and by prayer. 
 
 II. The students shall constantly, seasonably and with 
 reverence, attend these daily religious exercises, preserving 
 silence and good order from the time they enter the place 
 of worship, and quietness and decorum in coming to and go- 
 ing from it ; they shall also attend public worship, in a similar 
 manner at the assigned place, on the Lord's day, on the days 
 of the annual public Fast and Thanksgiving, and at such other 
 times as the Faculty may direct. 
 
III. It is enjoined on all the students to observe the Lord's 
 day as holy and sacred to the duties of religion ; and if any 
 student profane the Sabbath by unnecessary business, or by 
 diversion in his room, or by absence from it on the Lord's 
 day, — or shall on Saturday or Sabbath evening make any 
 noise or disturbance, or shall behave improperly in time of 
 public worship, or at morning and evening prayers, he may be 
 punished by admonition, or otherwise, as the nature of the 
 offence" shall require. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CLASSES COURSE OF STUDY AND INSTRUCTION EXAMINATIONS 
 
 AND EXHIBITIONS. 
 
 I. The undergraduates shall be divided into four distinct 
 classes. The first year they shall be called Freshmen ; the 
 second Sophomores ; the third Juniors ; and the fourth Se- 
 niors. In reference to this classification, it is expected, that 
 all the students will give and receive through their whole 
 course those tokens of respect and precedence which from 
 common and approved usage belong to their standing in Col- 
 lege. 
 
 II. The instruction of the four years' course will embrace 
 Latin ; Greek ; the Modern Languages ; History and Geog- 
 raphy ; Grammar ; Logic ; Rhetoric and Oratory ; Mathe- 
 matics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy ; Chemistry and 
 Natural History ; Anatomy and Physiology ; Intellectual, 
 Moral and Political Philosophy ; Political Economy and Con- 
 stitutional Law ; Natural Religion and Moral and Christian 
 Science. Provision is made also for the instruction of such 
 students in Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, as may de- 
 sire it. The course of study and the Text Books will be speci- 
 fied in the annual Catalogues. 
 
 III. The classes shall attend recitation three times a day, 
 
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 except that there shall be no recitation on Saturday after- 
 noons, and none after the public declamation on Wednesday 
 afternoons ; the Senior class however will attend two or more 
 recitations a day or an equivalent in lectures, at the discre- 
 tion of the Faculty. 
 
 IV. The members of all the classes shall declaim in rota- 
 tion, every Wednesday afternoon, until the end of the second 
 term, after which, the Senior class will be excused from this 
 exercise, and no manifestations of approbation or disapproba- 
 tion shall be allowed, except such as may be sanctioned by 
 the presiding officer. 
 
 V. The President shall have a special care of the Senior 
 class, and shall hear a part of their recitations in such branch- 
 es as his psofessorship embraces — giving occasional instruction 
 to other classes also, if he shall deem it expedient. 
 
 VI. The Professors and Tutors shall severally take such 
 part in the instruction of the classes as the Faculty shall de- 
 termine, and as they may think most conducive to the interest 
 of the College. The Professor or senior instructor, where 
 there is more than one, shall be deemed the head of the de- 
 partment and generally responsible for the same, and shall 
 make a semi-annual written report of the state of his depart- 
 ment, to the Faculty. 
 
 VII. The hours especially appropriated to study are from 
 the ringing of the study bell in the morning to twelve o'clock 
 M. ; from the ringing of the study-bell in the P. M. to eve- 
 ning prayers, and after the study-bell in the evening till nine 
 o'clock. During these hours the students are required to re- 
 main in their rooms, and not to leave them, except for the 
 performance of some duty, or for some urgent reason, and 
 to abstain not only from all disorderly noises, but from all 
 noises which may cause interruption to others, such as loud 
 conversation, singing, playing on a musical instrument and 
 the like. 
 
 VIII. Every student is required punctually to attend all 
 the stated recitations and other exercises, which may be ap- 
 pointed by the Faculty ; but the classes will not go to their 
 
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 recitation rooms till the ringing of the bell, and they will leave 
 as soon as the recitation is ended ; — provided, that any class 
 may remain to transact necessary business, though in no case 
 without leave obtained of the instructor. 
 
 IX. There shall be examinations of all the classes in their 
 respective studies, at such times as the Faculty may prescribe, 
 but the final examination of the Senior class, shall be six 
 weeks previous to Commencement, and extend to the whole 
 course of study. No student absent from the appointed ex- 
 aminations shall recite with his class until he has been exam- 
 ined, without special leave of the Faculty. 
 
 X. At the close of these examinations, the Faculty assist- 
 ed by such of the Trustees as may have attended, and by 
 such distinguished clergymen and laymen as the Trustees and 
 Faculty may from time to time designate, shall make up their 
 judgment of the literary merits of the students, and may if 
 they think proper, notice with approbation any excellency, 
 and with censure any deficiency which may have been ob- 
 served, and their results may be communicated to the several 
 classes in such a manner as the Faculty shall direct. 
 
 XI. At the close of the last Senior examination, those 
 who are approved will become candidates for the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts at the next Commencement. They shall 
 then have leave of absence until the Thursday preceding 
 Commencement, provided, however, that those who are t© 
 take a part in the Commencement exercises, must remain un- 
 til their performances are approved by the Professor of Rhet- 
 oric, or he is prepared to be responsible for them. Copies of 
 these performances, fairly written, must be presented to him 
 two weeks, at least, and lodged with the President, one week 
 at least, before Commencement. If any one shall make ad- 
 ditions to what is contained ija the copy approved by the Pro- 
 fessor of Rhetoric, or shall speak any thing in public which 
 he has been directed to omit, he shall forfeit his degree. 
 After Commencement, the pieces shall be handed over to the 
 Librarian and shall be bound in volumes and kept in the Li- 
 brary. 
 
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 XII. The Faculty will select from the Senior class annu- 
 ally a sufficient number to take part in the exercises of the 
 ensuing Commencement ; and will announce their appoint- 
 ments in season for the necessary preparations. In making 
 such selections, as in awarding all other literary distinctions, 
 the general rule shall be to follow the scale of merit kept by 
 the Faculty, and which embraces the moral conduct, punctu- 
 ality, orderly behavior of the students in the recitation room, 
 and general demeanor, as well as their attainments in litera- 
 ture and science. The public exercises at Commencement 
 shall consist of Orations in the English and learned Lan- 
 guages, and sueh other performances as the Faculty may de- 
 termine. If any student shall refuse to fulfil his appointment, 
 he shall be reported to the Trustees, who shall give him op- 
 portunity to state his reasons for such refusal, and if these 
 reasons are not satisfactory, he shall be deprived of his de- 
 gree. 
 
 XIIL In the last week of the spring term the Faculty may 
 at their discretion, appoint one or more of the candidates for 
 the degree of Master of Arts, to take part in the exercises at 
 the ensuing Commencement. 
 
 XIV. There shall be a public exercise on the Tuesday 
 evening preceeding Commencement, consisting of declama- 
 tions by members of the Sophomore and Freshman classes, 
 not exceeding five from each class, appointed by the Faculty, 
 or in such a manner as they shall determine, at least four 
 weeks previous to the Commencement. 
 
 XV. There shall be annually two Exhibitions for the Ju- 
 nior and Senior classes, at such times as the Faculty shall 
 designate, and all the students of these classes shall have an 
 opportunity of appearing in public at one or other of these 
 exhibitions, by appointment of the Faculty. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 VACATIONS AND ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE. 
 
 I. Commencement is on the second Thursday of August, 
 annually. The first vacation is from Commencement, four 
 weeks, the second is six weeks from Thanksgiving, the third, 
 three weeks from the third Wednesday in April. 
 
 II. On the day that each vacation expires, all the under- 
 graduates must return to College, and the course of instruc- 
 tion and study will be resumed immediately. 
 
 III. No student shall be absent from College in term time, 
 without leave of the President or some other member of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 IV. Any student absenting himself without leave, shall be 
 fined one dollar for each day's absence, and the like sum for 
 going out of the town of Amherst without leave. And if any 
 student after having been refused leave of absence shall ab- 
 sent himself, he shall be fined or otherwise punished, at the 
 discretion of the Faculty. When numbers or classes unite in 
 such conduct, it becomes a case under Chapter X. — 20. 
 
 V. No student shall prolong his absence beyond the time 
 for which leave is given, nor beyond the close of vacation ; 
 nor shall he be excused for any violation of this rule unless it 
 shall appear to the Faculty, from the certificate of his parent, 
 guardian, or physician — or if he be more than twenty-one 
 years of age, from his own certificate, which he is required to 
 present in writing — that he had a reasonable excuse. 
 
 VI. If any class or company of students shall at any time 
 desire leave of absence, for the purpose of making any geo- 
 logical or botanical excursion, or for any reason whatever, it 
 is expected that they will present their request to the Presi- 
 dent in season to have it acted on by the Faculty. If how- 
 ever, any Professor finds it important to take his class abroad 
 for purposes of instruction, provided he attend them in per- 
 son, he shall have power so to do, with the concurrence of 
 the President. If however, such excursion will interfere with 
 
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 the exercises of any other instructor, such instructor shall pre- 
 viously be consulted in reference to the matter. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 OF THE LOCATION AND BOARD OF STUDENTS. 
 
 I. Every student shall statedly reside in the room assigned, 
 to him by a committee of the Faculty appointed to superin- 
 tend the location of students, and no student shall in any case 
 remove to another room without permission. 
 
 II. No student shall lodge out of College, or the room as- 
 ssigned him, nor shall he suffer any one to lodge at his room, 
 without leave from one of the Faculty ; nor be absent from his 
 room without urgent reason after 10 o'clock in the evening. 
 
 III. When the rooms in College are not sufficient to re- 
 ceive all the students, permission may be given to some to re- 
 side in families of a good and approved character. 
 
 IV. No student is allowed to board or room at a tavern 
 where intoxicating drinks are sold, unless the keeper be his 
 parent or guardian. And if any student, after the express 
 disallowance of the Faculty, shall continue to board or room 
 at any place, he shall be suspended or removed from College, 
 at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 V. If any student shall be absent from the College beyond 
 the time allowed him, or shall be vexatious to his roommate, 
 or if there shall be any other sufficient cause, the Faculty may 
 at their discretion take the room from him and give it to 
 another. 
 
 VI. In all cases of disorder at the room, the occupant shall 
 be responsible. Any officer of College shall have authority to 
 enter by force, if necessary, any room occupied by a student. 
 
 VII. All students living out of College, and in the town of 
 Amherst, shall be subject to the same laws and rules as those 
 who reside within its walls. 
 
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 VIII. Every occupant of a room in College, shall, before 
 he leaves in vacation, deposit his key, labelled with his name, 
 and the number of his room, in the place provided for the 
 purpose ; and no student can be permitted to occupy his room 
 in vacation, unless he shall first obtain special permission from 
 the Faculty. 
 
 CHAPTEB, IX. 
 
 DAMAGES AND REPAIRS. 
 
 I. Any student who shall damage, destroy or purloin prop- 
 erty belonging to the College, shall make good the same, and 
 may also be assessed to an equal amount to be appropriated 
 to general repairs ; or suffer any College punishment, accor- 
 ding to the nature and circumstances of the offence. 
 
 II. Every student shall be responsible for any damage 
 which the room he occupies may sustain, while he is in town 5 
 except- what arises from its customary wear, or is otherwise 
 unavoidable. 
 
 III. The students are not allowed to throw out of the 
 windows water or anything else which may deface the exte- 
 rior of the College buildings, or injure the appearance of the 
 grounds around them, nor to play ball, or engage in any di- 
 version, on the front side of them, or near them. 
 
 IV. Every student is required to observe the regulations 
 which the Prudential Committee may prescribe for the preser- 
 vation of the College buildings from injury or loss by fire. 
 
 V. When any damage is done to the College buildings or 
 appurtenances, and the author cannot be known, it shall be 
 assessed equally upon all students, and charged in their term 
 bills. 
 
 VI. No student shall make repairs, additions or alterations 
 in any room in College, without leave from the President, or 
 a committee of the Faculty, 
 
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 VII. In no case shall a student bring into the College 
 premises, any cannon, musket, pistol, or other species of fire- 
 arms, or any gunpowder in any mode of preparation ; and in 
 no case, in term time, shall any student be concerned in the 
 discharge of any fire-arms or fire-works in the town of Am- 
 herst. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 MISDEMEANORS AND PUNISHMENT. 
 
 I. The Government of this College earnestly desire, that 
 the students may be influenced to good conduct and literary 
 exertion, by higher motives than the fear of punishment, and 
 it mainly relies for the success of the Institution, as a plan of 
 liberal education ? on moral and religious principle, a sense of 
 duty, and the generous feelings which belong to young men 
 engaged in honorable pursuits ; but when such motives fail, the 
 Faculty will have recourse to friendly caution and warning ; 
 solemn admonition and official notice of delinquency to pa- 
 rents and guardians, lowering the rank, refusal to grant priv- 
 ileges and indigencies allowed to meritorious students ; and 
 where the nature and circumstances of the case require it, to 
 suspension, removal or expulsion. Fines also may be im- 
 posed by vote of the Faculty. 
 
 II. The Instructors severally shall notice absences from 
 College exercises, and delinquencies, and report them to the 
 Faculty weekly. And it is the duty of the Professors, Tutors 
 and all other College officers, to assist in enforcing the laws 
 and in maintaining the discipline of the Institution, especially 
 to send to their rooms all students assembled without authority 
 in study hours or in an illegal and disorderly manner ; to no- 
 tice on the spot all violations of the law T , when necessary ; 
 and to lay before the Faculty all case^ of misdemeanor requir- 
 ing further censure. Towards the close of each term a scale 
 
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 of merit will be made out for all the classes ; and in forming 
 this scale, the Faculty will have a special regard to punctu- 
 ality and general behavior, as well as to literary and scientific 
 attainments. 
 
 III. Whenever any student is found delinquent, he is lia- 
 ble to be deprived of any such indulgence as may be granted 
 to exemplary students, with respect to absence ; to have par- 
 ticular portions of study assigned him to be performed during 
 the vacation, or at other times ; and to forfeit all claims to 
 literary distinctions, and if he persist in such delinquency, he 
 may be suspended or removed from College. 
 
 IV. Whenever in the judgment of the Faculty the longer 
 residence of any student in College would be unprofitable or 
 injurious, owing to dissipation, or habits of idleness or inat- 
 tention to College exercises, or propensity to mischief, or a 
 disposition to encourage disorder among the students, or other 
 reason, he may be privately sent away, or official notice may 
 be given to his parents or guardian, and if a student thus cen- 
 sured do not speedily reform, he shall be removed from Col- 
 lege. 
 
 V. If any student shall be guilty of a crime for which an 
 infamous punishment may be inflicted by the laws of the State, 
 he shall be expelled. 
 
 VI. If any student shall be guilty of profaning the name 
 or word of God, or be guilty of fighting, striking, quarreling, 
 turbulent words or behavior, unchaste and indecent language, 
 challenging, wearing any disguise or unbecoming apparel, of 
 fraud, lying, defamation, or any similar crimes, he shall be 
 punished according to the nature of the offence. 
 
 VII. If any student shall be guilty of opening by pick- 
 lock, false key, or any other instrument, or breaking open a 
 trunk, desk, room or any other place secured by lock or oth- 
 erwise, or shall break through any window or door of any 
 room occupied by a fellow student, or shall be guilty of an 
 injury to the person, property, or premises of a fellow student, 
 or shall wilfully injure any of the College buildings or prop- 
 erty, he shall make satisfaction according to the nature of the 
 
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 crifence or injury, and be subject to such punishment as the 
 case may require. 
 
 VIII. If any student shall refuse to admit an officer to his 
 room, or to assist in repressing any disorder, he may receive 
 any College punishment, even to expulsion, as the circumstan- 
 ces and aggravation of the crime may require. 
 
 IX. When any student shall be required by the Faculty to 
 disclose his knowledge of any disorder, offence, or offender 
 against a law of College, and shall refuse to make such dis-* 
 closure, or to answer any question, or shall falsely declare him- 
 self ignorant of the matter, he may be sent home, removed 
 or expelled. 
 
 X. No student shall be questioned for any testimony which 
 he may have given before the Faculty ; and in case any one 
 shall question or threaten a fellow student, in order to ascer- 
 tain whether he has testified, or with intent to bring odium 
 upon him for testifying, or shall in any way insult or injure 
 him, the student so offending may be proceeded against by 
 the Faculty, even to immediate removal or expulsion. 
 
 XL No student shall on any occasion make or assist in 
 making, or be present at any festival or convivial entertain- 
 ment, in College or in the town of Amherst (except on invita- 
 tion to a private family), without permission from the Faculty. 
 And any student, at whose room any such entertainment may 
 be made, shall be held responsible in the first degree. 
 
 XII. No intoxicating liquor shall be used within the Col- 
 lege premises or in any student's room, cases of sickness ex- 
 cepted, nor shall any student partake with others of intoxica- 
 ting liquors in the room of any person, or in any place in 
 town, and no student shall frequent any place where such 
 liquors are sold or provided. 
 
 XIII. No student shall keep cards or any implements used 
 in games of chance, or play at any such games. And should 
 any persist in so doing after admonition, they shall be sus- 
 pended or removed, according to the aggravation of the of- 
 fence, 
 
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 XIV. No student shall attend any dancing assembly or 
 dancing school, in term time; . 
 
 XV. Every student shall be answerable for all vicious, 
 scandalous, and immoral conduct during the several' vacations 
 in the same manner as in term time. 
 
 XVI. The Faculty are authorized and expected to pro- 
 hibit any student from visiting any tavern, store, house or 
 room, whenever in their opinion a due regard to morals and 
 economy shall require such an interference. 
 
 XVII. If any student shall associate with one who is dis- 
 missed or one who has been expelled, he shall himself be lia- 
 ble to the same punishment. 
 
 XVIII. As no meeting of a class or classes can be held, 
 except by special leave obtained from an officer of College, if 
 at any meeting any improper business shall be transacted, the 
 person or persons who requested the meeting, and the chair- 
 man, secretary, or committee appointed and acting, shall be 
 responsible in the first degree. 
 
 XIX. No society for literary or other purposes shall be 
 formed or continued, by the students, without the permission 
 of the Faculty, nor shall any association for any purpose be 
 allowed, whose plan, objects, course of proceeding and by- 
 laws have not been submitted to and approved by the Fac- 
 ulty ; nor shall any pledge to secresy, or any obligation of any 
 description, be admitted to interfere with the right of the 
 Faculty to have at all times a full knowledge of the doings of 
 such associations. No meeting of a society shall be held out 
 of the College buildings, without special permission from the 
 Faculty; nor be continued beyond the hours designated by 
 them. 
 
 XX. If any combination or agreement, direct or indirect, 
 to do an unlawful act, or to forbear compliance with any in- 
 junction from lawful authority in College, shall be entered 
 into, such and so many of the individuals thus combining, 
 shall be punished, as the Faculty may judge necessary for the 
 preservation of good order and government in College. 
 
 XXL The students shall at all times treat the Faculty and 
 
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 every member thereof with the respect which becomes their 
 relation to them, and their whole demeanor in their inter- 
 course with each other, and with all other persons, must be 
 conformable to the rules of decency and good breeding ; and 
 if any student, when punished, shall behave in an insulting 
 manner, he shall forthwith receive a higher punishment. And 
 if, when any student is punished, a fellow-student shall insult 
 the Faculty or encourage resistance to their authority, the 
 latter student shall be liable to the punishment inflicted upon 
 the former. 
 
 XXII. By Suspension, a student is separated from his 
 class for a specified time ; is required immediately to leave 
 the College and return to his parent or guardian, or to repair 
 for study to such other place as the Faculty may designate. 
 Removal is the separation of a student from College for an 
 indefinite time ; and no student removed shall be readmitted 
 to his own or any other class, without satisfactory testimonials 
 of good conduct, during his separation, and his appearing on 
 examination to be well qualified for readmission. 
 
 XXIII. Expulsion, the highest Academical censure, is a 
 final separation from College. 
 
 XXIV. Whereas cases of discipline may occur, which are 
 not expressly provided for by law, the Faculty have power in 
 all such cases, according to their best judgment, to inflict any 
 College censure, according to the nature and circumstances 
 of the offence. 
 
 XXV. Confession of a fault before proof will be consid- 
 ered a mitigating circumstance. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 MONITORS, RESIDENT GRADUATES AND BENEFICIARIES. 
 
 I, Monitors shall be appointed by the Faculty, from the 
 Senior class ; and in making the selection, particular regard 
 will be had to scholarship and moral character. 
 
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 II. It shall be the duty of monitors to note down all who 
 are absent from prayers or come late, or go out during the 
 exercises ; and they shall proceed in like manner with refer- 
 ence to other public exercises which the students by law are 
 obliged to attend. They shall also note upon their bills any 
 disturbances, or improper conduct, which may occur at morn- 
 ing or evening prayers or at any other time of worship, such 
 as whispering, lounging, reading any book or paper not con- 
 nected with the service, irreverant attitudes, or any conduct 
 inconsistent with the decency and propriety of the occasion. 
 If a monitor fail to perform his duty, he shall lose his office 
 and forfeit the standing which entitles him to it. The moni- 
 tors shall deliver their bills to the instructors of the several 
 classes, at such times as the Faculty may direct, and shall 
 receive a compensation for their trouble. 
 
 III. Masters and Bachelors of Arts, who shall signify to 
 the President their wish to remain for a time in College, will 
 receive the desired permission ; and will, as resident gradu- 
 ates, be subject to the laws and government of the Seminary. 
 
 IV. The charges to resident graduates shall be, for the 
 use of the library and for room rent, the same as to under- 
 graduates. 
 
 V. Persons who have been regularly graduated at any 
 other College or University, may, upon proper application to 
 the President, be admitted to the same degree in this College 
 upon the payment of the customary perquisite. 
 
 VI. The income of the Charity Fund will be devoted to 
 paying the ordinary charges of the term bills of those who 
 may be received as Beneficiaries. 
 
 VII. The qualifications requisite to obtain this aid are, 
 membership in some evangelical or orthodox church, a pro- 
 fessed determination to enter the Gospel ministry if Provi- 
 dence permit, and a good reputation for talents and piety. 
 
 VIII. If any Beneficiary voluntarily abandon the intention 
 of becoming a minister, he will be expected to repay the 
 money he has received, without interest. And if such an in- 
 dividual leave Amherst College before graduation, under ceil- 
 
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 sure or unnecessarily, he must either pay back what he has 
 received, without interest, or give security for its payment 
 previous to receiving a dismission. No one shall be retained 
 as a Beneficiary, who does not practice rigid economy in all 
 his expenditures, and set an example of punctuality, diligence, 
 and uniform good behavior. 
 
 IX. It Will be the duty of the President, from time to 
 time, to give the Beneficiaries such special counsel and in- 
 struction as he may judge proper and useful. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE LIBRARY. 
 
 I. The Library shall be under the immediate direction of 
 the Library Committee, which shall consist of the persons to 
 be chosen annually by the Corporation. 
 
 II. This committee shall make all purchases of books for 
 the Library — shall hold regular meetings, at least once every 
 term, and shall present to the Corporation yearly a detailed 
 report of all expenditures for books, and of all other things 
 done by them in said capacity. They shall also advise with the 
 Librarian in the discharge of the duties of his office ; and shall 
 regulate and conduct all the concerns of the Library, not 
 otherwise provided for by the Corporation. Provided that if 
 the head of any department is dissatisfied with the amount ap- 
 propriated by such committee, the head of such department 
 may apply to the Corporation for a review of the decision of 
 such committee. 
 
 III. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take good 
 care of all the books and other property belonging to the 
 Library ; to arrange in proper order all books, pamphlets, 
 charts, etc., and make a full and accurate catalogue of the 
 same. He shall carefully examine the whole Library, at least 
 once every year, shall present to the Corporation a circum- 
 
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 stantial report in writing of the results of such examination, 
 and shall report to them at least one day before Commence- 
 ment the names of such members of the Senior class as have 
 books from the Library. He shall be held accountable for 
 the safe keeping and good care of the books committed to his 
 charge, and if any books should be lost or injured by his neg- 
 lect or by his non-observance of the Rules and Regulations 
 of the Library, they shall be made good by him, out of his 
 salary or otherwise. He shall moreover perform such other 
 duties appertaining to his office as the Corporation may from 
 time to time prescribe. 
 
 IV. The members of the Corporation ; the President, Pro- 
 fessors, Tutors, Secretary, and Treasurer ; all resident grad- 
 uates, all pastors of churches that have subscribed to the 
 Parish Fund ; all donors to the Library to the amount of one 
 hundred dollars, shall be entitled to the use of the Library 
 without expense. The undergraduates and members of the 
 scientific department shall also be entitled to the use of the 
 Library, and shall be charged therefor, the former fifty cents 
 per term ; the latter one dollar per term. The use of the 
 Library may be granted to others not included in this article, 
 on application, either directly or through the Librarian, to the 
 Library Committee. 
 
 V. The Library shall be open in Term time, for drawing 
 books, from 1 1-4 to 2 o'clock P. M., on Mondays, Tuesdays, 
 Thursdays and Fridays, except on the days of public Fast, or 
 the Fourth of July, the two weeks next preceding Commence- 
 ment, and such other days as for special reasons the Library 
 Committee shall order it to be closed. In vacation the Libra- 
 ry shall be open every week on Wednesday, forenoon and 
 afternoon. 
 
 VI. No book shall be borrowed from the Library or re- 
 turned to it without the knowledge of the Librarian (or his 
 assistant), who shall keep a faithful record of all books bor- 
 rowed from the Library, and shall take particular notice of 
 the state of each book, when delivered and when returned. 
 And every book when lent shall, if the Librarian so direct, 
 
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 have a paper cover on it, which shall be returned undefaced 
 with the book. 
 
 VII. No person except officers of instruction shall borrow 
 from the Library more than three volumes at a time, or retain 
 a book without renewal longer than four weeks. 
 
 VIII. For every book not returned at the time specified, 
 the person borrowing it shall be liable to a fine of two cents 
 for every day, until it shall be returned. 
 
 IX. No officer of instruction shall be allowed to borrow 
 more than fifty volumes at any one time. 
 
 X. All books shall be returned to the Library on or before 
 the Friday preceding the close of the first and second Terms, 
 and on or before the second Thursday preceding the close of 
 the third Term ; provided, that the officers of College shall be 
 required to return the books in their possession only once a 
 year — viz., on or before the first Thursday in August. 
 
 XI. If any book borrowed from the Library be injured or 
 defaced, by writing in it, or otherwise, or be lost, the Libra- 
 rian shall make immediate report of it to the Library Com- 
 mittee. If the borrower be a graduate, undergraduate, or 
 member of the scientific department, the Library Committee 
 may oblige him to replace the book lost or injured with one 
 of equal value, or they may report the case to the Faculty, 
 who shall have power to impose such other penalty as in 
 their judgment the offence demands ; and if such volume be 
 a part of a set, the borrower may be obliged to replace the 
 whole set, and until this be done he shall not be allowed to 
 borrow any other book. 
 
 XII. No book can be renewed to any undergraduate, res- 
 ident graduate, or member of the scientific department, unless 
 it be brought to the Library. 
 
 XIII. No person shall take books from the shelves or 
 tables without permission of the Librarian. 
 
 XIV. No person shall borrow any book from the Library, 
 nor shall any person enter the Library, except in extraordi- 
 nary cases, to be judged of by the President, without the 
 knowledge or permission of the Librarian; and no person, 
 
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 except the President and Librarian) shall have a key to the 
 Library. 
 
 XV, Such books, m&ps) charts) &e.) as have been or may 
 be presented with the intention Or request that they shall not 
 be lent from the Library 5 shall in no case be lent therefrom. 
 Books which are valuable for their plates, or for their rarity 
 or antiquity 3 and all others which the Library Committee may 
 designate as works of reference*, shall not be lent, but may 
 be consulted in the Library* 
 
 XVL The Library Committee are authorized to establish 
 from time to time such additional regulations not incompatible 
 with the laws of College as shall be found proper and necessary 
 for the safety and the due administration of its concerns; such 
 regulations shall be reported to the Corporation at their next 
 annual meeting, and with their sanction shall become part and 
 parcel of the Rules and Regulations of the Library* 
 
 CHAPTER XIIL 
 
 BEADING ROOM* 
 
 L The iise of the Reading Room shall be free to mem- 
 berg of College and all other persons) who choose to avail 
 themselves of the same , subject to such restrictions as the Li- 
 brary Committee may find occasion to impose. 
 
 !L The Reading Room shall be used under the immedi- 
 ate supervision of the Librarian^ and shall be open every day 
 In thi Week 3 except on the afternoons of Tuesday and Sat- 
 urday, from 9 to 12 A, M»> and from 2 to 4 P* M,, in the 
 winter tetm, and from 9 to 1 1 A» M>, and from 2 to 5 P* M., 
 in the glimmer and fall terms* 
 
 III. No periodical shall be taken from the room, provided 
 only, that the offifcfera of College may take periodicals repre- 
 billing theif niipeetive departments of instruction) after they 
 shall haw kin cm th§ table at least two weeks, and may bis* 
 
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 have the privilege of taking any periodical, after it has been 
 in the room at least four weeks, in both which cases however 
 a record shall be kept by the Librarian, of the periodicals so 
 taken. 
 
 IV. Persons availing themselves of the privileges of the 
 Reading Room, will in all cases be held responsible for dam- 
 ages done to the premises or the periodicals, and will be ex- 
 pected to avoid audible conversation. 
 
 
 
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