Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1869-1870 [PAGE 31]

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BY LAWS.

GENERAL TtTTJ.ES.

1. Every student entering the University will be regarded as pledging himself to obey its officers, laws and regulations. 2. Each student, as a member of the University, is expected to show a proper interest in its prosperity, and is bound, in honor, to promote, in all suitable ways, its interests and success. 3. Every student will be expected to treat his instructors and fellow students, with courtesy and due respect, and, by a faithful discharge of his own duties and by all gentlemanly and correct conduct, to contribute to the general well being. 4. Prompt and regular attendance at all general exercises and at all the exercises of his class, is a cardinal duty, which every student owes to the University and to his teachers and class mates. 5. Unusual and all unnecessary noise in the halls and other public rooms will be counted as a breach of proper decorum, and as a violation of the rights of the University. G. Each student is expected to have a careful regard to the general neatness and good order of the buildings, and to avoid all markings or carvings on walls, floors or other parts of the buildings, or upon the furniture or fences of the University. 7. All property of the University is to be carefully preserved from injury, and every student carelessly or willfully injuring the same is expected to pay for the replacement or repairs. 8. All use of alcoholic drinks, and all visiting of drinking shops or saloons, and of billiard and gambling houses, are strictly forbidden as disgraceful, and destructive to the best interests of the student and of the University. 9. Students desiring to 1)3 absent from any University or class exercise shall secure permission beforehand for such absence, and when circumstances prevent application for such permission, they shall offer excuse for their absence immediately on their return, to the University or to the class from which they have been absent. 10. Six absences during any one term from any University or class exercise which the student is required to attend, without a good and sufficient excuse for such absences, shall suspend the delinquent from all privileges of the University, till restored by the Faculty.

ADMISSION AND DISMISSION.

1. No student will be admitted but on the examinations required by law, and such additional examinations as may be required by candidates for advanced standing, or for any higher course of study.