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Regulations.
1. Admission.—The age of the student must be at least sixteen years. A certificate
of honorable discharge from the school last attended, or other evidence of
general good conduct, is required. The student must matriculate in at least three
academic schools, or their equivalent, except by special order of the Faculty.
2. Dormitory.—The occupant of a dormitory has first right to it, and may
reserve it for the next session by registration with the Proctor before the end of
the current session; thereafter any vacant dormitory is assigned to the first applicant.
But unless a deposit of fifteen dollars is made with the Proctor on or before
September 1, the room is forfeited. No dormitory may be sub-let or used for other
than its proper purpose.
3. Boarding.—Students may board and lodge either in the University percincts
or at their homes, or in houses licensed by the Faculty. It is the duty of the
Chairman to withdraw the license from any house, in which the regulations as to
the conduct of students are not observed. Change of lodging should be reported
at the Chairman's office.
4. Changes of Schools, with transfer of fees, may be made by the student at any
time by special order of the Faculty. But a student may change from one class
to another of the same school with the advice and consent of the professors concerned.
5. Absence from the University is permitted upon the written leave of the
student's professors and the Chairman, obtained in every case in advance. But
leaves of absence for the purpose of accompanying the athletic teams or musical
clubs on excursions will not be granted, except to the officers and members of the
organizations.
6. Absence from Lecture may be excused by the professors, but only for sickness
or like providential cause. Such excuses should be rendered at the first
lecture attended after the absence. The Chairman is required to present for discipline
every student charged with eight or more unexcused absences in all classes
during either half-session, that is, before or after midnight of January 31.
7. Absence from Examination will not be excused except for sickness on the
day of examination (attested by the physician's certificate) or other cause which
the Faculty by special order may approve. In such cases a special examination
will be granted, but in no other.
8. Voluntary Withdrawal from the University requires the written consent of
the student's professors and of the Chairman. When the permit is granted upon
the physician's certificate that withdrawal is necessary on account of the student's
ill-health, which must not be due to dissolute conduct, the fees are returned pro
rata.
9. Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted by the Faculty for habitual delinquency in
class, habitual idleness, or any other fault, which prevents the student from fulfilling
the purposes for which he should have come to the University.
10. Conduct.—Drunkenness, gambling and dissoluteness are strictly forbidden,
and the Chairman is instructed to dismiss from the University for the residue of
the current session every student found guilty of them.
Profane swearing, habits of expense, visiting bar-rooms or gaming tables, the
use or possession of fire-arms or other deadly weapons, the unauthorized contraction
of debts, and the use by the student in his lodgings or in the University precincts
of intoxicating drinks, except on prescription of the University physician,
are also violations of University law, and punishable by admonition or suspension.
In all cases of discipline, the law requires that the student must first be informed
of the objections to his conduct and afforded an opportunity of explanation and
defense.
11. Prohibition of Credit.—An act of the Legislature prohibits merchants and
others, under severe penalties, from crediting students. The license to contract
debts, which the Chairman is authorized to grant, is limited (except when the
parent or guardian requests otherwise in writing) to cases of urgent necessity.
12. Athletic Teams and Musical Clubs.—The laws relating to absence from the
University of members of the Athletic teams are found in the Section upon Physical
Culture (page 120). The same resolutions apply, mutatis mutandis, to members
of musical clubs.
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