THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, AS REVISED AND ADOPTED BY THE CORPORATION AND CONCURRED IN BY THE OVERSEERS ON THE 17TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1848. THIRD EDITION. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 1860. PREFACE. THE last general revision of the Laws of the University took place in 1825, after a very protracted and laborious examination. On this occasion many important changes were made in the laws, of which an edition, as revised, was published in that year. Another edition, with some slight changes, was published in 1826, and still another in 1828. Since then there has been no publication of all the laws of the University, and they may be considered, at this time, as out of print. On the 17th May, 1832, President Quincy informed the Corporation that "a new edition of the statutes and laws would be requisite, and suggested the expediency of a new arrangement of the laws, and some modifications of them: "Whereupon, it was voted, that "The President be a committee for the above purpose." On the 19th of July, President Quincy reported a selection from the general laws, under the title of "Statutes and Laws of Harvard University relative to Undergraduates"; which was read and adopted by the Corporation on the same day. Such portions of the previously existing laws as were deemed to relate to the same matters were at the same time repealed. On the same day (19th of July, 1832) the newly adopted code of laws was laid before the Overseers and referred to a committee of that body, with instructions to report at the next meeting. At that meeting (23d of August, 1832), no report having been made by the Committee, they were discharged from the farther consideration of the subject; and the Revised Statutes and Laws as adopted by the Corporation were concurred in, with one slight amendment, by the Overseers. To this selection of laws and statutes relating to undergraduates, thus adopted by the Corporation and Overseers, were subsequently added the "Orders and Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," forming together the pamphlet edition of the laws, placed in the hands of students when admitted to the College. This pamphlet has been more than once reprinted. The last edition of the first portion that is, "The Laws of Harvard University relative to Undergraduates"-bears date in 1845; and the last edition of the "Orders and Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College" bears date in 1847. The selection above described, and the repeal of a considerable part of the laws previously existing, seemed to render a revision and a republication of the residue necessary. Accordingly, on the 19th of June, 1834, it was voted by the Corporation, that "the President be authorized to have printed those College laws which do not relate particularly to Undergraduates." In pursuance of this authority, a pamphlet was prepared by President Quincy, and printed in 1834, under the title of "Statutes and Laws of the University in Cambridge, Massachusetts." This collection was a revision as well as a selection of the laws, and consequently required for its adoption the action of the two boards of the College Government. It does not appear whether it was adopted by the Corporation. It was never submitted to the Overseers, and only those portions of it, therefore, possess the force of law which belong to the body of laws as previously existing. This pamphlet, though printed, was never published. Nothing farther was done for several years in reference to a revision of the laws. At length, on the 12th of September, 1846, the President was requested, by a vote of the Corporation, "to consider and ascertain the present state of the College laws, and to make report." This vote of the Corporation was understood to contemplate a complete revision of the statutes and laws of the University. In pursuance of this order, on the 27th of November of the last year, a revised code of laws was reported by the President to the Corporation, and by them ordered to be privately printed, with a view to its consideration by the two Boards. At the following meeting, on the 27th of December, it was laid before the Corporation in a printed form. It was ordered by the Corporation, at the same time, that a printed copy should be furnished to each member of the College Faculty and to the Faculty of each Professional School, with the request that they would submit to the Corporation, in writing, such remarks as they might think proper to make on any part of the proposed code. On the 15th of January, of the present year, the revised code, as reported by the President, was, in connection with the remarks of the members of the Faculties, taken up for consideration by the Corporation, at a special meeting |