Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 212]

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206 The report of subjects taught, with the numbers in attendance in each, is as follows:

Classes. Mathematics Engineering _ Agriculture Mechanical Science Mech anical P r a c t i c e Architecture Architecture Practice C uemistry Mineralogy Geology a n d P h y s i c a l Geology, V e t e r i n a r y Science Physiology "Botany M e n t a l Science History English Literature German French Latin Greek Drawing, Mathematics Drawing and Painting Military Science Preparatory C l a s s Physiology Mathematics. Natural Philosophy 4 3 2 2 1 4 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 4 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 50 2 2 2 6 Hours p e r day. 4 6 3 3 2 6 2 6 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 4 3 2 2 3 4 2 1 64 2 2 2 6 31 51 34 4 7 8 35 58 42 Men. 95 33 12 13 6 13 9 69 8 19 7 29 6 27 26 47 28 19 7 10 58 10 17 Women. 20 Total. 115 33 12 13 6 13 9 86 8 23 45 11 30 41 84 95 78 11 14 58 27 17

17 4 16 5 3 15 37 67 59 4 4 17

SECRET COLLEGE FEATEBNITIES.

Immediately after the opening of the term, I notified privately members of the societythen formed, of the action taken by you at your last meeting. I was assured that while the members regretted the necessity which seemed to be laid upon them, they had no desire to stand in opposition to the wishes of those in authority, and immediately the insignia of the society disappeared. In the belief that a kind and quiet course of action, if it should prove effectual, would be better than more open demonstration, nothing farther was done at that time. Later in the term it was ascertained that a committee from certain Indiana colleges was at this University for the purpose of organizing another society. Warning notice was at once given that such action was contrary to your wishes and could not be tolerated: but it appeared that the notice was not heeded, and the organization proceeded. It also transpired that the first society had only retired behind the curtain and were vigorously but secretly pushing their work and gathering recruits. It appeared that the time had come for immediate and decided action. Accordingly the Faculty passed and published the following orders, based upon the authority of the resolutions passed at your last meeting: "That after the first day of January. 1882, no student may receive a class-card, or be admitted to any class in the Preparatory course or in the University, until he shall have deposited in the office of the Regent his pledge that he will not join or be connected with any college secret society so long as he shall be a student at this University. That after the first day of January. 1882, no student mny receive an honorable dismission, or certificate or diploma of graduation, unless he shall have first deposited in the office of the Regent a statement upon his honor that he has not since the date of his first pledge, given as above, been connected with any college secret society, as a member or otherwise." This publication brought at once to the light a third society, whose existence here was not known to the Faculty, while it is intimated that a fourth, which gave much trouble during the administration of my predecessor, is yet alive or has been revived. The form of the orders are substantially those which are in use at the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and are such as have been dictated by the experience of that and other institutions in their treatment of this parasitic evil during the last thirty years. It is believed that nothing less explicit and decided" will be of avail in securing the end desired. The student who means to obey a law prohibiting these societies will be willing to say so; one who has kept the faith will have no hesitation in declaring that fact. Only such as desire the opportunity for a mental reservation will be troubled by the precision with which the lines are drawn. It was not expected that young men who were engaged in any project upon which they had in some degree set their affections, would give up that project at a word without protest. At the last meeting of the Faculty, a petition addressed to the Trustees and Faculty