Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1881-1882 [PAGE 82]

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Illinois Industrial University.

STUDENT'S GOVERNMENT.

For several years an experiment has been in progress, in the selfgovernment of the students of the University. By permission of the Faculty, the General Assembly of the students was organized, and a constitution adopted providing for the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Marshal; for a Senate of twenty-one members, and a court consisting of a Chief Justice and two Associate Judges. Under this constitution, laws are enacted by the Senate, which become valid only when approved by the Regent and Faculty of the University. All offenses against these laws are tried before the student's court, and punished by fines according to the class of the offense. Students refusing to pay the fines imposed by the student's government, are referred to the Faculty, and if found guilty of an offense, are sentenced to such penalties as the Faculty may deem proper. The government has thus far rendered important aid in maintaining good order in the dormitories and grounds, in preserving public property, in preventing the visiting of saloons, and in other matters requiring the intervention of authority, and above all, in cultivating kindly relations between the Students and Faculty, and a spirit of manliness and self-control.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO STUDENTS.

Young men or women desiring a liberal education, and living at a distance from any College or University, are often puzzled to understand precisely what they will be required to know and do in order to gain admission. To such these words are addressed: 1. Notice that a College, or a University, (which is properly a collection of Colleges,) is designed for the higher education only, and not for the study of common branches. None of the common branches, such as Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Reading and Spelling, are taught in this University. These must all be finished before you come. . 2. In order to pursue profitably the true College studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing with the different Colleges of the University. (See pages 27 and 28.) 3. If well prepared only in the common branches above named, you may be admitted, not to the College, but to the Preparatory Glasses, in which you will study the other preparatory studies required for admission to College. (See page 75.) All preparatory studies must be completed before you can be admitted, as a matriculated student, to any College class.