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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 academical 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 1st, 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 precincts, 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. Change of Schools, with transfer of fees, may be made by the student within
one week after registration: thereafter it is permitted only 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 the 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 31st.

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 retured 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 defence.

ATHLETICS.

1. The Faculty Committee on the Gymnasium is entrusted with the general oversight
of field and track athletics, and is authorized to forbid any features in these exercises
which endanger the health or the morals of the participants.

2. No one shall be a member of any University athletic team, or act as such in any
intercollegiate contest, who is not at the time of such contest a regularly matriculated
student or an instructor in the University.

3. No student will be permitted to play upon the University foot-ball and base-ball
teams except after physical examination by the Director of the Gymnasium, and with his
approbation.

4. Leave of absence for the purpose of playing intercollegiate match games may be
allowed to the base-ball and foot-ball teams, such leaves not to exceed four days in the
session in the case of either team.

5. No student under twenty-one years old will be permitted to play with either team
in games away from the University, either as a regular member of the team or as a substitute,
except upon written permission from his parent or guardian, addressed to the
Chairman of the Faculty.

6. Only students who act as regular or substitute members of the athletic teams will
be permitted to accompany them on trips away from the University, except during vacations
and holidays.

7. Special monthly reports will be made to the Faculty with respect to the class standing
and progress in study of each player on the athletic teams during the foot-ball and
base-ball seasons, whether such player be a regular or substitute member of either team or
an applicant for either position.

8. Any member of an athletic team who is reported for neglect of his studies or nonattendance
on lectures may be required by the Faculty to server his connection with such
team.

9. The athletic teams shall not have contests elsewhere than upon the University
grounds with any except teams from other institutions of learning.

10. Experts for purposes of instruction and professional teams for purposes of practice
may be employed on the University grounds, but only with written permission from the
Chairman of the Faculty.

The foregoing regulations shall be applicable also, mutatis mutandis, to Musical Clubs.