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 LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 Williams College, 
 
 REVISED 1878. 
 
LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 Williams College, 
 
 AUTHORIZED BY THE TRUSTEES 
 
 AT THEIR MEETING IN JULY, 
 
 1878. 
 
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 Book and Job Printers and Blank Book Manufacturers. 
 North Adams , Mass. 
 
 1878 . 
 
NOTE. 
 
 Good order and system are essential to success in any work ; and 
 the want of them fatal to the highest profit and enjoyment of College 
 life. As a means of securing the best results from the labor of the 
 governing boards and students, the Trustees prescribe the following 
 laws and rules. As the rules here embodied are deemed essential for 
 carrying out the purposes for which Williams College was founded, no 
 student to whom a copy of these laws is given will be allowed to plead 
 ignorance of their requirements, and no plea of “past custom” will be 
 accepted as an excuse for their transgression. Any change or modifi- 
 cation of them will be duly announced by the Faculty. 
 
COLLEGE LAWS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 1. The General Government and direction of Wil- 
 Government. liams College is lodged by the Charter in the Presi- 
 dent and Trustees*. The Immediate Government 
 
 is vested in the President and Professors, who shall be styled the 
 Faculty of the College. 
 
 2. There shall be a stated, annual meeting of the 
 Trustees. Trustees, during Commencement week ; other meet- 
 ings may be called by the President, with the advice 
 
 of the Standing Committee. 
 
 3. The President is the executive officer of the Board 
 President. of Trustees ; he shall have the general oversight and 
 
 direction of College instruction and discipline ; he - 
 shall take such part in the instruction of the classes as the Board 
 may direct, or, in absence of such direction, as he may think 
 proper ; he shall have authority to convene the Faculty for busi- 
 ness or advice, whenever he may think it expedient, and shall 
 preside in such meetings when present. 
 
 ^Corporate name, “The Peesident and Tkustees of Williams College.” 
 
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 4. It shall be the duty of each Professor, or other 
 Professors. instructor, to devote himself earnestly to the duties 
 
 of his department, with which no other pursuit may 
 interfere ; to give instruction either by text-book or lectures, 
 according to the nature of the subject ; to direct his class to such 
 authors as will be most useful in the prosecution of their studies ; 
 to illustrate those subjects capable of visible illustration by dia- 
 grams, maps, specimens and experiments ; and to aim to produce 
 and to increase in his pupils a love of knowledge, and a thorough 
 mental discipline. 
 
 Each Professor, or other instructor, will consider himself an 
 officer of discipline as much as of instruction, charged with the 
 special supervision of his own class. He will take notice of 
 every instance of irregularity, want of decorum, or violation of 
 the laws, whether in his own class or elsewhere, and take meas- 
 ures at once to correct it. If his own efforts fail, he will report 
 the matter to the Faculty. 
 
 The Professors shall make a written report of the state of their 
 respective departments and their course of instruction to the 
 Trustees annually, at the time of the final Senior Examination. 
 
 5. It shall be the duty of the Faculty, and of each 
 Faculty. member of it, to establish and maintain good disci- 
 pline in the College ; to give the President their 
 
 opinion and advice in any matter whenever requested by him ; 
 to visit the students at their rooms ; and to watch over their 
 manners and morals. 
 
 The Faculty will appoint one of their number to act 
 class officer, as the particular officer of each class, and to serve as 
 the ordinary medium of communication between that 
 class and the Faculty. Applications for excuses, for leave of 
 absence, and for leave to go out of town, shall be made to the 
 officer of the class, and all such absences shall be recorded by 
 him with the reasons for them ; but if the absence be for a lon- 
 ger time than one week , leave shall be obtained of the President 
 
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 or Faculty. No officer of a class shall excuse a student for other 
 recitations besides his own, except as such excuse may be inci- 
 dental to a general leave of absence. 
 
 The officer of each class may appoint a class moni- 
 Monitors. tor, who shall keep a record of all absences from 
 Sabbath services and from prayers ; of all tardinesses 
 at the same; and of all persons going out from the same ; and 
 this record he shall hand from time to time to the class officer. 
 The monitor shall receive a suitable compensation for his ser- 
 vices ; but if he shall be neglectful of his duty, or dishonest in 
 its discharge, he may be removed at any time, and be deprived 
 of his compensation, or otherwise punished, at the discretion of 
 the officer. 
 
 As the responsibility of carrying on the entire sys- 
 Misceiianeous. tern of instruction and government of the College 
 devolves on the Faculty as a body, each member is 
 bound to perform miscellaneous duties which do not strictly be- 
 long to any department of instruction, and which by vote of the 
 Faculty are assigned to him. If, in consequence of the sickness, 
 death, or absence of any of the officers of instruction, additional 
 teachers are required, the Faculty are authorized to provide such 
 teachers until the next meeting of the Corporation. The Fac- 
 ulty are also authorized, at their discretion, to license special 
 teachers of branches not contained in the College course, and 
 students may not, without permission, attend on teachers not 
 thus licensed. With the exception just noticed, all the officers 
 of instruction and government in the College are chosen by the 
 Corporation, and are subject to removal by them. 
 
 At the beginning of the first term of each collegiate 
 Secretary. year, it shall be the duty of the Faculty to appoint one 
 of their number Secretary, who shall keep a record of 
 their votes and decisions, and especially of all penalties visited by 
 them, with the reasons for the same; which book shall be open to 
 the inspection of the Trustees, or of any Committee thereof. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 OF THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 1. The undergraduates shall be divided into four 
 Admission. distinct classes, called respectively the Freshman, the 
 Sophomore, the Junior, and the Senior class. Can- 
 didates for admission into the Freshman class must be at least 
 fourteen years of age, and shall be examined, under the direction 
 of the President, in 
 Geography. — Modern and Ancient. 
 
 History. — Greek and Roman. 
 
 Mathematics. — Arithmetic. Algebra through simple equations. 
 
 Geometry , two books. 
 
 Grammar. — English , Latin and Greek. 
 
 Latin Authors. — Coesar , four books ; Cicero , seven orations, 
 Virgil , the Georgies and six books of the Hmeid. 
 Latin Composition. — Arnold' s } as far as the Passive Voice. 
 Greek Authors. — Xenophon's Anabasis , four books. Homer's 
 Iliad , one book. 
 
 The Faculty may make such substitutions and alterations in 
 these conditions of admission as the interests of the College may 
 require. 
 
 Candidates for admission to an advanced standing 
 Advance. must be correspondingly advanced in age, and must 
 be examined in the studies also which have been per- 
 sued by the class they wish to enter, or in others equivalent to 
 them ; but no one shall be admitted into the Senior class after 
 the commencement of the second term. 
 
 All candidates for admission must bring proper testimonials 
 of good moral character ; and if from another College, a dismis- 
 sion in accordance with the established custom of Colleges, 
 students admitted to an advanced standing, unless they come 
 from another College, pay, in lieu of back tuition, the following 
 sums as entrance money, viz : Sophomores, $10 ; Juniors, $15 ; 
 Seniors, $20. 
 
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 Each student accepted on examination, shall be fur- 
 Engagement. nished with a copy of the College laws ; and no plea 
 of ignorance of these laws can afterwards be admit- 
 ted. He shall also sign an engagement in the following form : 
 
 I promise, on condition of being admitted as a member of 
 Williams College, on my faith and honor , to obey all the laws 
 and regulations of this College ; that I will faithfully avoid in- 
 temperance, profanity, gaming, and all indecent, disorderly 
 behavior, and disrespectful conduct to the Faculty, and all com- 
 binations to resist their authority — especially that I will refrain 
 from “ hazing ” and all similar practices which tend to produce 
 disorder in College , and ill feeling between the classes ; as wit- 
 ness my hand. 
 
 2. The course of instruction in the College will em- 
 Curricuium. brace Latin, Greek, Modern Languages, Mathemat- 
 ics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, History, 
 Political Economy and Constitutional Law, Rhetoric and Ora- 
 tory, Chemistry, Natural History, Anatomy and Physiology, 
 Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Natural Religion and the 
 Evidences of Christianity. There shall also be such physical 
 exercises as the Faculty shall determine. The authors to be read 
 in this course by the several classes, the order of studies and the 
 space allotted to each, and the times of all recitations, lectures, 
 declamations and compositions shall be appointed by the Faculty. 
 
 Public worship, consisting of reading the Scriptures 
 worship. and prayer, shall be conducted by the President, or 
 other member of the Faculty, daily in the College 
 Chapel ; which exercise it shall be the duty of the Faculty and 
 students regularly and reverently to attend. Divine service shall 
 be publicly solemnized on the Lord’s Day, on days of Thanks- 
 giving and Fasting appointed by public authority, and on such 
 other days as the Faculty shall prescribe ; and the students shall 
 be present at every appointed exercise of public worship. No 
 excuse for absence shall be accepted unless, when possible, pre- 
 viously rendered to a member of the Faculty. 
 
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 3. There shall be public examinations of all the class- 
 Examinations. es in all the studies pursued. The Seniors shall be 
 
 publicly examined as candidates for the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts, by the Faculty, the Standing Committee, and 
 other members of the Trustees, and other gentlemen of liberal 
 education who may attend, on the invitation of the Faculty or 
 Trustees. They shall be examined on the studies of Senior year, 
 and such other studies as the Faculty may prescribe. When the 
 examination is finished, the Examiners shall recommend such of 
 the candidates as shall be approved by a majority of their votes 
 taken b} 7 ballot, and the candidates thus recommended, unless it 
 shall be forfeited by misconduct, shall be entitled to the degree 
 of A. B. at the next Commencement ; those who are not thus 
 recommended, may, upon application, be re-examined under the 
 direction of the President, and, if approved, shall receive a de- 
 gree with their class. 
 
 4. There shall be a scale of merit carefully kept by 
 standing. each instructor, on which the relative standing of 
 
 every member of his class shall be marked. This 
 standing shall be made up of the five elements, which are the 
 basis of true success in College and give promise of success in 
 the world, viz : 1st. Scholarship, as indicated in recitations and 
 examinations ; 2d. Orderly Behavior in class room and chapel ; 
 3d. Regularity and Punctuality; 4th. Moral Conduct; 5th. 
 General Deportment. In assigning parts for Commencement, 
 and in awarding all other literary distinctions, the rule shall be 
 to follow the general average of these scales of merit. 
 
 If the scholarship or general conduct of a student shall not 
 encourage the hope that his longer connection with the College 
 w r ill be useful to him or creditable to the institution, it shall be 
 the duty of the President, with the advice of the Faculty, to in- 
 form his parent or guardian that the continuance of such student 
 will be inexpedient, and his connection with College shall cease. 
 
 5. The appointments in the Senior class for Com- 
 
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 Appointments, mencement shall be made out by the Faculty. They 
 shall consist of such exercises and so many as the 
 Faculty shall determine. 
 
 All compositions which are to be publicly exhibited, whether 
 at Commencement or other times , shall he approved by the 
 Professor of Rhetoric ; and any student who shall exhibit a 
 piece not thus approved, or part of a piece, may be punished by 
 admonition, suspension, expulsion, or by being refused a degree, 
 at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 Five members of the Sophomore and Junior classes 
 Exhibitors. shall be appointed by the Faculty, or in such a man- 
 ner as the Faculty may determine, to exhibit origi- 
 nal pieces by declamation the evening preceding Commencement. 
 A testimonial shall be awarded to the best performance in each 
 class, as indicated by a committee of three persons designated 
 by the Professor of Rhetoric. 
 
 All exhibitions and public exercises of any society in College, 
 either stated or occasional, and all anniversary celebrations and 
 occasional exercises shall be under the entire control of the 
 Faculty ; the orator to be invited from abroad, and the condi- 
 tions under which he is invited, shall be subject to their approv- 
 al ; and no student shall be concerned in any of these celebra- 
 tions but by their permission. No instrumental or vocal music 
 shall be employed for Commencement Day, or the evening pre- 
 vious, except by the consent of the Faculty. 
 
 6. No academical degree shall be conferred but by 
 Degrees. vote of the Corporation. No student shall receive 
 the first degree unless he has passed the regular ex- 
 aminations, except in extraordinary cases ; unless he has re- 
 turned all his library books, and adjusted his library accounts ; 
 and unless he has paid all his College dues, or secured them to 
 the satisfaction of the Treasurer. Every Eachelor of Arts, of 
 three years’ standing, sustaining a good reputation, shall be en- 
 titled to the degree of Master of Arts by seasonable application 
 
to the Treasurer. Every candidate for either degree shall previ- 
 ously pay the Treasurer live dollars. But all honorary degrees 
 shall be free of charge. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 OF DEPORTMENT AND DISCIPLINE. 
 
 1. It is earnestly desired by the Government and 
 Motives. Faculty of the College, that the students may be in- 
 fluenced to good conduct and diligence in study, by 
 
 higher motives than fear of punishment ; and they mainly rely 
 for the success of the Institution on moral and religious princi- 
 ple, a sense of duty, and the generous feelings which belong to 
 young men engaged in honorable pursuits. When these mo- 
 tives fail, the Faculty will have recourse to friendly caution and 
 warning, to private and public admonition, and, when the nature 
 and circumstances of the case require it, to fines, probation, sus- 
 pension, dismission and expulsion. 
 
 2. All students are expected and required to devote 
 Decorum. themselves faithfully to study, and to the honest dis- 
 charge of those duties which are assigned them by 
 
 their instructors. They are enjoined to keep the Sabbath Day 
 holy and sacred to the duties of religion , and not to profane 
 it by diversion , by unnecessarily walking abroad , or by study . 
 They are enjoined to treat one another with consideration and 
 respect; and to show at all times to the Faculty, and to every 
 member of it, those tokens of respectful deference which befit 
 the relation subsisting between them. 
 
 There are certain offenses against good order and decorum, 
 which all students are enjoined to avoid ; and among these may 
 be mentioned irregularities in the chapel ; such as tardinesses 
 at prayers and Sabbath services , going out from these , read- 
 ing , talking , whispering , improper attitude or behavior ; mis- 
 conduct AT RECITATIONS, LECTURES AND OTHER EXERCISES ; Such as 
 
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 talking after the instructor has taken his seat , whispering , in- 
 attention , lounging , sitting out of alphabetical order , and 
 anything whatever interrupting and disturbing the exercises ; 
 
 and MISBEHAVIOR AROUND THE BUILDINGS OR IN THE VILLAGE ; Such 
 
 as shouting from a window , throwing anything from or to a 
 window , playing hand or foot ball in the College buildings or 
 yards , making any boisterous noise therein or elsewhere , smok- 
 ing in the streets or any public room , or singing or playing 
 upon musical instruments in study hours or after ten o'clock 
 at night. These and similar violations of decorum are noticea- 
 ble offenses against the good order of College, besides fostering 
 habits of negligence and lawlessness destructive to education 
 and success in the world. 
 
 3. Whenever the laws do not fix the penalty of any 
 penalties. offense, it shall be determined by vote of the Fac- 
 ulty ; but admonition in private or before the class, 
 and fines in certain cases, may be applied by any member of the 
 Faculty as he shall judge necessary. The repetition of offenses 
 shall be considered as an aggravating circumstance. 
 
 Fines not exceeding one dollar may be imposed by 
 Fines. a Professor or Tutor ; those above one dollar must 
 
 be imposed by the Faculty. But no fine shall be 
 remitted except by the Faculty. 
 
 Immediate and implicit obedience shall be yielded 
 obedience. by every student to the lawful commands of every 
 officer of the College. And every student shall re- 
 pair to his room whenever directed to do so, and shall appear 
 personally before the President, or any ^officer of the College 
 when required. Disobedience shall be deemed a high offense 
 against the order of College, and may be punished, at the discre- 
 tion of the Faculty, by any College censure, even to expulsion. 
 
 If any student shall violate the engagement made 
 on his faith and honor as a condition of his admis- 
 sion to college, he shall be immediately admonished 
 
 Expulsion. 
 
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 by the Faculty, and if lie shall repeat the offense, he shall be 
 dismissed from College. 
 
 If any student shall be guilty of a crime for which an infa- 
 mous punishment may be inflicted by the laws of the State ; or 
 shall designedly injure, or attempt to injure, any member of the 
 Faculty in his person, property or premises, he shall be expelled. 
 
 If any student shall be guilty of any injury to the buildings or 
 other property of the College, to the person property, or premi- 
 ses of a fellow student, or of any person in the town, he shall 
 make satisfaction according to the nature of the offense or injury, 
 and be subject to such punishment as the case may require. 
 
 All disorderly and irregular assemblages or proces- 
 Assembiages. sions of students, of whatsoever nature, and partic- 
 ularly all such known and designated as Wakes, and 
 all kinds of disturbance by night tending to break the quiet of 
 the College or of the town , are expressly forbidden, and may be 
 punished, as the case shall require. 
 
 Whenever any student shall be required by the Fac- 
 Disciosure. ulty to disclose his knowledge concerning any disor- 
 der, offense or offender against a law of the College, 
 and shall refuse to make such disclosure, he may be dismissed. 
 
 Any student who may be required to do so by a College offi- 
 cer, shall open the door of his room, his trunk, chest, desk or 
 any other thing, and, if he refuse, the officer may break it open ; 
 and the student maybe punished for disobedience as the Faculty 
 shall judge proper. 
 
 If any student shall be frequently absent from any of the lit- 
 erary or religious exercises required of him, or shall be habitu- 
 ally indolent or neglectful of his studies, or be guilty of any 
 immorality or disorder, or be inattentive to the regulations of 
 the College and the requirements of the Faculty, he shall, un- 
 der their direction, be admonished of his misbehavior ; and, if 
 he continue unreformed, he shall be sent home, and his connec- 
 tion with College shall cease. 
 
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 The attendance of every student is required from 
 Absences and the first college exercise of the term until the last ; 
 irregularities, and no excuse for absence at the beginning of any 
 term will be favorably considered by the Faculty 
 unless accompanied by a written statement of the cause of the 
 absence from the students’ parent or guardian. If a student’s 
 un excused absence from college prayers shall amount to ten in 
 any one term, he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with, 
 at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 No student shall be absent from College in term-time, with- 
 out leave of the President or some other member of the Faculty. 
 
 Any student who is charged with an offense, or has 
 statement. been censured or punished, shall be permitted to 
 make, in a respectful manner, any representation of 
 his case to the Faculty that he may deem necessary to the right 
 understanding of it; but no joint representation or action on 
 such a matter shall be allowed. 
 
 No class meeting shall be held after any recitation, 
 class meetings, except with the consent of the officer who has heard 
 it ; and he and no other person shall announce that 
 such meeting is to be held ; and no class meeting shall be held 
 at any other time but with the consent of the officer of the 
 class ; and no College meeting at any time, but with the con- 
 sent of the President. 
 
 The hours between prayers in the morning and 
 study hours, twelve o’clock, meridian, between two o’clock and 
 prayers in the afternoon, and, except in the Summer 
 term, between seven and nine o’clock in the evening, shall be 
 considered study hours. 
 
 No student shall have or keep any gunpowder or 
 Fire-arms. fire-arms in his room, or in any building or other 
 place on College grounds ; nor shall he at any time 
 use gunpowder or fire-arms within half a mile of the College 
 grounds. 
 
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 The Faculty are authorized to make additional rules concern- 
 ing the deportment and discipline of students, not inconsistent 
 with these laws ; and to exercise discretionary authority to pun- 
 ish offenses for which no statute is particularly provided. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 OF TERM BILLS AND PARIETAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 1. Students shall be charged by the Treasurer in 
 Term Bins. the bills of each term the following; sums, viz: — for 
 tuition, $30 ; for room rent, $5 to $10 ; for ordina- 
 ry repairs and for keeping the monitor’s bills, ringing the bell, 
 sweeping and warming the recitation rooms, and similar charges, 
 each student’s proportional part ; and for the use of the Library 
 as directed in Chapter Fifth. 
 
 All glass broken by students, all damages done by them to 
 the College edifices or any other property of the Corporation, 
 and all fines imposed by the Faculty, shall be charged in the 
 Term Bills. 
 
 No student shall be dismissed until he presents to the Presi- 
 dent the certificates of the Treasurer and Librarian that he has 
 settled his Term Bill and his Library account. 
 
 Each candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be 
 charged, in the July Term Bill of his Senior year, seventy-five 
 cents to defray the expense of printing the Triennial Catalogue. 
 
 If a student shall be dismissed before the middle of a term, 
 he shall be charged for half a term ; and if after the middle, for 
 the whole term. This rule is applicable to persons permitted 
 to recite with a class. 
 
 The Term Bills shall be considered as due as soon as they are 
 made up according to law, and the Treasurer is authorized to 
 demand the same at any time with interest while they remain 
 unpaid. But no interest shall be charged on bills paid in fif- 
 teen days from the close of the vacation next after the term for 
 
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 which they are made. At the close of each term a Term Bill 
 shall be prepared by the Treasurer for each student, with a 
 statement of the amount remaining due on previous bills ; which 
 bill shall be forwarded to the parent, guardian or patron of the 
 student by mail. 
 
 If any student’s bill shall remain unpaid fifteen days from the 
 close of the vacation next after the term for which they are 
 made, and not secured to the satisfaction of the Treasurer, he 
 shall be suspended , or his connection with College be dissolved , 
 at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 The income of the Funds of the Institution given for the aid 
 of indigent young men of merit, shall be distributed annually 
 at Senior examination, and applied toward the payment of the 
 Term Bills. No aid from these funds will be granted to 
 young men who are negligent in their duties or are Jcnoion to 
 indulge in any expensive habits . 
 
 2. The students, except such as may be exempted 
 Rooms. for satisfactory reasons, shall occupy the rooms in 
 
 College; in the selection of which they shall con- 
 form to the regulations of the Faculty. If any rooms in the 
 College shall remain unoccupied, the rent of them shall be as- 
 sessed upon those students who room out of College. If any 
 student shall refuse to occupy the room assigned to him, or shall, 
 without permission, change his room, he shall be fined, or other- 
 wise punished, at the discretion of the Faculty. 
 
 Damages to rooms occupied by students shall be 
 Damages. charged to the occupants, unless it shall appear that 
 they were done by others, and unless such damages 
 shall be reported to the College officer having charge thereof, 
 within two days by the occupants, or, if done in their absence, 
 within two days after their return, with such information as they 
 may be able to give of the authors of the injury. 
 
 No student may make, or cause to be made, any fixture, im- 
 provement, repair or alteration in his room, but under the direc- 
 
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 tion of the proper officers, and anything done in violation of 
 this rule shall be accounted damage and treated accordingly. 
 
 Every student, upon going out of town, and leaving his room 
 without an occupant, shall deliver his key to the person ap- 
 pointed by the Faculty to receive it, on penalty of one dollar. 
 And no student can be permitted to occupy his room in vaca- 
 tion, unless by special permission. 
 
 The Faculty shall assign to one of their number special 
 charge and supervision over the following buildings, and parts 
 of buildings, respectively : North Hall, West College ; South 
 Hall, West College; Kellogg Hall, South College; North En- 
 try, East College ; South Entry, East College. And each offi- 
 cer of a class shall have special charge over the recitation room, 
 and over that part of the chapel occupied by his class, and shall, 
 by frequent inspection and otherwise, protect them from de- 
 facement and damage. 
 
 All students rooming out of College shall be subject to the 
 same rules and regulations, and shall be liable to the same visit- 
 ation and inspection of the Faculty as those who room in Col- 
 lege. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Librarian to keep faith- 
 Librarian. ful custody of the Library building and books ; to 
 expend judiciously all moneys designated for the 
 preservation and increase of books, and to endeavor in all ways 
 to make the Library as useful as possible to the Faculty and the 
 students. For these services he shall receive a suitable com- 
 pensation. In case of his death or resignation, a Librarian pro 
 tempore shall be appointed by the President. 
 
 The Librarian shall in term time open the Library for con- 
 sultation and study on the part of the Faculty and students dur- 
 ing at least lour hours each day, at times best suited to the 
 
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 convenience of the College; except that on Wednesday and 
 Saturday afternoons the Library may be closed, and on those 
 days a suitable time shall be appointed for the delivery and re- 
 turn of books, the number of each book taken being registered 
 with the name of the borrower and the date. No book shall be 
 taken from the Library or returned without the knowledge of 
 the Librarian or his assistants, nor shall any person be permitted 
 to go into the Library, in the absence of the Librarian or his as- 
 sistants, except members of the Corporation and the Faculty. 
 
 The Librarian is authorized to restrict the use of such valu- 
 able books and plates as, in his judgment, would be liable to 
 suffer injury under the ordinary rules. 
 
 No student shall have more than three books from the Libra- 
 ry at a time ; and the Librarian is authorized to make rules, sub- 
 ject to the approval of the President, concerning the time dur- 
 ing which books may be kept ; concerning the penalties for the 
 detention, defacement and loss of books, and for other viola- 
 tions of Library regulations , and concerning the class of per- 
 sons, other than College officers and students, who may share 
 the privileges of the Library. 
 
 Each student shall pay four dollars a year for the use of the 
 Library ; which, together with all damages assessed, and fines 
 charged by the Librarian, shall be entered in the Term Bills 
 under the head of “the Library.” 
 
 The sums thus charged for the use of the Library and for 
 damage done to it, shall be drawn from the Treasury by the Li- 
 brarian, and be expended by him in rebinding and repairing the 
 books in the Library, or in the purchase of new books at his 
 discretion. And the Librarian shall render to the Corporation, 
 at their annual meeting, an account of his expenditure. 
 
 Whenever the Librarian shall be unable to recover any book 
 lent, he shall report the case to the Treasurer, who shall, if 
 necessary, prosecute for the same. 
 
 In the month of June, annually, the books shall be 
 
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 visitation. carefully inspected to ascertain their presence in the 
 Library and condition. It shall be the duty of the 
 President and Secretary to visit and inspect the Library, to see 
 in what state it is, and whether the Librarian has faithfully per- 
 formed his duty. There shall be the same visitation and in- 
 spection of the Library by the President and Secretary previ- 
 ous to the resignation of the Librarian, should it take place at 
 any other time of the year. 
 
 If any damage comes to the Library by the neglect of the 
 Librarian or his failure to observe fhe laws of the Library, it 
 shall be made good out of his salary or otherwise. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 OF THE CALENDAR. 
 
 1. Commencement shall be on the first Wednesday 
 Commencement, of July, annually. 
 
 2. The College year shall consist of three terms ; 
 Calendar. which, together with the vacations, shall be arranged 
 
 as follows : — -There shall be a vacation of nine weeks 
 from Commencement. The first term shall commence on the 
 expiration of this vacation, and shall continue to Tuesday pre- 
 ceding Christmas. There shall be a vacation of three weeks 
 from the last mentioned day ; on the expiration of which, the 
 second term shall commence and continue eleven weeks. There 
 shall then be a vacation of two weeks, on the expiration of 
 which the third term shall commence and continue till Com- 
 
 mencement. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 CHAPTER I . 3 
 
 OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE. 
 
 CHAPTER II. ------ 6 
 
 OF THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 CHAPTER III. - 10 
 
 OF DEPORTMENT AND DISCIPLINE. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. - 14 
 
 OF TERM BILLS AND PARIETAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. - 16 
 
 OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. ------ - 18 
 
 OF THE CALENDAR. 
 

 
 
 
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