Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 66]

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62 of seniority of classes: Provided, that any student who has, with the consent of the Professor in charge, fitted up a room with more than ordinary furniture or fixtures, may retain it and decline drawing for a new choice. Students entering at other times may select any room which may be vacant. 2. Students engaging rooms and failing to secure the same by prepayment of rent, will be considered to have relinquished their claims, if not present on the first day of the following term. 3. In choice of rooms, two room-mates shall have preference ove r single students of the same grade. 4. Any student occupying a room singly may be required to receive a room-mate: Provided, there are no vacant rooms for applicants. 5. Occupants will be chargeable with any damage done to the room beyond the ordinary wear. 6. Students on renting a room will each deposit with the book-keeper $2, to be refunded at close of occupancy, if the room is left in good condition : Provided, that the whole or a part of the sum may not be used to pay for repairs and cleaning. 7. All putting on of locks, or other alterations or repairs of room, shall be done by the University carpenter, or under his direction, and no student shall be entitled to remove a lock, even though owning the same. 8. At the end of the term, or whenever a student is leaving the University for a vacation or other protracted absence, the keys of the room occupied shall be deposited with the Professor in charge. 9. No more than two students shall occupy any room, except by permission of the Eegent or Professor in charge, given in case of the larger rooms. 10. No room shall be used for any other purpose than as an ordinary "dormitory and study room, except by special per mission of the Faculty. 11. The occupants of any room shall keep the same at all times in neat and orderly condition, and shall not keep on hand any powder or other explosive material, nor shall any pail or bucket of hot ashes be at any time left standing in the room or halls. /Students violating this rule, or Rule 4, under u Personal Conduct," will forfeit the privilege of rooming in the University building.

UNIVERSITY UNIFORM.

Under the authority of the act of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed that all the students, after their first term, shall wear the University uniform. The University cap is to be worn from the first.