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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
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, can not be made except
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 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 Lectures 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. Unexcused
absences from lecture render the student liable to be disciplined by
the Faculty.
7. Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of examination (attested by the physician's certificate)
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 a
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 164). The same resolutions
apply, mutatis mutandis, to members of musical clubs.
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