APPENDIX A.

REVISED BY-LAWS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. ENACTED BY THE BOARD OP REGENTS, JULY 30th, 1874.

CHAPTER I.

ARTICLE I.-OF THE FACULTIES.

SECTION 1. The General Faculty of the University shall consist of Faculties. the president and professors, and of such assistant professors as may be appointed by the Board of Regents to the head of departments of instruction.

SECTION 2. The General Faculty shall have control of all matters Powers of pertaining to the Department of Elementary Instruction, and have General power to direct and control all the general interests pertaining to the Faculty. internal affairs of the University (subject to the revision of the Board of Regents, to whom the action of the said Faculty upon all important matters shall from time to time he submitted) except so far as said interests may fall under the supervision of the several special faculties. SECTION 3. The several special faculties of the University shall have Special control and direction of the interests of their respective colleges or Faculty, departments, except such matters as may be relegated to the General Powers. Faculty by the by-laws or by the Board of Regents.

SECTION 4. The president of the University shall be the presiding officer of all the faculties, but in his absence the senior professor present shall preside.

SECTION 5. Each faculty shall elect its secretary annually at its first regular meeting.

Presiding

Officer.

Secretary.

SECTION 6. The several faculties shall fix the times of their regular Meetings. meetings other than the first; special meetings may at any time be called by the president, in his discretion, or upon application in writing of two professors. At special meetings no business shall be in order except such as may have been stated in the coll.

SECTION 7. The first regular meeting of the G.neral Faculty shall be on the first day of the first term of each year, at 9 o'clock A. M. All officers of instruction, of whatever grade, whether members of the General Faculty or not, shall attend this meeting.

SECTION 8. The special faculties shall hold their first regular meetings of each year on the first day of the first term, at the call of the president of the University.

SECTION 9. In the respective faculties a majority of votes shall con- Quorum. stitute a quorum, and upon call of any member the ayes and noes shall be taken and entered upon the records.

SECTION 10. Each member of the General Faculty shall have one vote, except when questions pertaining to the Department of Elementary Instruction are voted upon; then each professor shall have two votes

Votes.

Asst. Profs

and each assistant professor one vote. In the several special faculties each professor shall have two votes and each assistant professor one The president shall have the casting vote in all cases, and if at any time he be charged with the duties of a professorship, be shall be entitled to his vote or votes accordingly.

vote.

SECTION II. Assistant professors that may have been assigned to rights of duty in the Department of Elementary Instruction by the Board of Regents, or during their recess by the president of the University, may sit with the General Faculty, and shall have all the rights and privileges of other members of that Faculty, upon all questions pertaining to the Department of Elementary Instruction.

President duties of

ARTICLE II.-OF THE Officers.

SECTION 1. The president of the University, as the chief executive officer of the University shall see that all the laws and regulations of the Board of Regents for the government of the University, and all the rules and regulations of the several faculties in accordance therewith, be carefully executed; in all cases when an emergency may arise in the administra. tion of the affairs of the University, the president shall, in his discretion, adopt such measures as he may deem expedient and necessary for the best interests of the University; he may keep and use an official seal, and appoint a secretary; he shall promptly communicate to any faculty any information they may require, unless in his opinion the interests [of the University] demand that it be withheld; he shall edit and publish the Annual Calendar, subject to the revision of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents; and shall perform such other duties consistent with his office as the Board of Regents may prescribe. SECTION 2. Whenever the action of any faculty shall, in the judgment of the president of the University, be at variance with the plans and policy of the Board of Regents, or otherwise prejudicial to the welfare of the University, and he shall so declare in writing to the secretary of said faculty, the said action shall not take effect until it shall have been submitted to the Board of Regents, and shall have been approved by them; and it shall be the duty of the president of the University promptly to make a full report of the transaction, together with the reasons for his action, to the president of the Board of Regent. SECTION 3. The professors shall have general superintendence of powers of every thing pertaining to instruction in their respective departments, and shall be responsible for the successful management of them; each professor shall have control and charge of the special apparatus of his department, and be responsible for the same.

Professors

Asst. Profs

powers of.

SECTION 4. Assistant professors and other instructors shall be reSponsible for the order and progress of their respective classes.

SECTION 5. Each professor shall select the text books to be used in Textbooks his department, subject to the action of the Board of Regents; and if, in the judgment of the president of the University, any text book be pre judicial to the interests of the University, he shall bring such fact to the notice of the Board.

Seniority.

Reports.

SECTION 6. The order of the seniority of professors and assistant professors shall be determined by the dates of their first elections.

SECTION 7. On or before the first day of November in each year, the professors shall make reports to the president, of the condition and

progress of their respective departments, to which they may add such suggestions and recommendations as they may deem proper.

SECTION 8. The duties of departments shall be so distributed among Equaliza the instructors as to give to all equal employment as nearly as may be tion of according to rank.

work.

SECTION 9. All officers of the University shall have authority, and Order. it shall be their duty, to suppress disorder among the students in or about the University premises.

SECTION 10. Any instructor or professor, of whatever rank, expect- Absences. ing to be absent temporarily, shall notify the president of the University.

ARTICLE III.-OF GENERAL REGULATIONS. SECTION. 1. The University year shall begin in September and end in June, and shall be divided into three terms to be designated as the First, Second, and Third Terms. The First Term shall be fourteen weeks in length; the Second shall be twelve weeks, and the Third Term twelve weeks. The First Term shall end on the Thursday preceding the 24th day of December. The Second Term shall begin on the first Tuesday following the second day of January. The Third Term shall begin on the second Tuesday following the end of the Second Term.

SECTION 2. Such general devotional exercises shall be held in the University as the General Faculty may direct.

University
Year.

Terms.

SECTION 3. Students of all departments shall pay to the treasurer of Fees. the University, or his agent, an annual fee of five dollars for incidental expenses; which sum shall be payable before admission to recitations, and no reduction shall be made for late entrance nor for absence.

SECTION 4. Any student desiring to leave the University for sufficient reasons, before the completion of his course, may receive from the president a certificate of dismissal, which shall set forth his general scholarship and deportment.

SECTION 5. The punishments to be used in the University shall be demerit marks; warnings or reprimands in private, in presence of the offender's class or section, or in public; suspension, indefinitely or for a stated time by the president, or by order of a faculty; expulsion by vote of the General Faculty; and reduction to the ranks, of officers and non-commissioned officers in the Military Corps In case of suspension the student shall have the right of appeal to the General Faculty within twenty days after notice of suspension.

SECTION 6. No society or body of students in the University shall hold any public entertainment, nor invite any person to deliver before them a public lecture or address without first obtaining permission so to do of the General Faculty.

Dismissals

Penalties.

Entertain

ments.

SECTION 7. No professor shall receive any person into his classes Students who is not properly registered as a student of the University.

to register.

SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of all instructors, of whatever rank, to keep careful accounts of the attendance, conduct, progress, and final Standing. proficiency of the students instructed by them, in each and every study, and to make rep. rts at such time and in such form as may be prescribed by the faculties of the various departments and colleges, respectively. The said faculties shall prescribe by what means and in what manner

Diplomas

Supt. of
Buildings

the progress and proficiency of students shall be ascertained, by regulations which shall be uniform in each department or college. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to cause the said reports to be consolidated, and filed for preservation. All students shall be reported to and for the department or college in which they are enrolled, and in such form as the respective faculty may have prescribed. All reports of assistant professors and instructors shall be made through the professor in charge of the department of instruction in which they may be employed.

SECTION 9. All diplomas shall be signed by the president of the University, and by all professors in charge of departments of instruction in the college from which the student is graduated.

SECTION 10. The Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds shall have the custody of the grounds and all buildings and structures thereon, grounds, and shall oversee all repairs, alterations, and improvements, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents.

duties of.

Librarian, duties of.

Selection of books.

Curator of

Museum, duties of

Facu ty.

Courses.

ARTICLE IV.-OF THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.

SECTION 1. The librarian shall have the custody of the Library and Reading Room of the University, and shall suffer them to be consulted under such rules and restrictions as the Board of Regents may prescribe. SECTION 2. The General Faculty shall select the works to be pur chased out of the standing appropriations for the increase of the Library and Reading Room, and they shall decide upon the acceptance of all donations to the Library and Reading Room, and no works shall be placed therein until authorized by them.

SECTION 3. The curator of the Museum shall have the custody of the Museum, and shall classify and arrange its contents according to the most approved methods, and shall suffer the same to be inspected under such rules and restrictions as the Board of Regents may prescribe. CHAPTER II

OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

ARTICLE I. The Faculty of this College shall consist of the president of the University, ex officio, of the professors employed in and for the College, and of such other professors and assistant professors as may be assigned to duty in the College by the Board of Regents.

ARTICLE II. There shall be three regular undergraduate courses of studies, extending over a period of two years, to be designated, respectively, the COURSE IN SCIENCE, the COURSE IN LITERATURE, and the COURSE IN ARTS. The instruction shall be conducted by the Faculty according to such schedules as may from time to time be adopted by the Board of Regents. The Course in Literature shall be otherwise known as the "Modern Course." There shall be such special and postgraduate courses of instruction as may be authorized by the Board of Regents. There shall be such exercises in writing and speaking throughout, as the Faculty may prescribe. In each course there shall be two required studies throughout, and so many elective studies as may be deemed advisable. Each student shall pursue at least one of the elective subjects. No student shall have fewer than three studies unless by permission of the Faculty.

ARTICLE III, Applicants for admission who bring a final certificate Admission from the Collegiate Department, are admitted without further examination. Other applicants must pass examinations in all the studies of of that course of the Collegiate Department corresponding to the one they propose entering upon respectively in this College. Real equivalents only shall be accepted.

and Certificates.

ARTICLE IV. The Degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Degrees Bachelor of Literature, shall be conferred upon recommendation of the Faculty, upon such students as shall have passed a course of study to their satisfaction. But any person may undergo examination in any subject, and if successful, shall receive a certificate to that effect. And if such person pass in all the studies of a course, he shall be entitled to the appropriate degree.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.

ARTICLE I. The Faculty of this College shall consist of the presi- Faculty. dent [of the University], ex officio, of such professors and assistant professors as may be employed in and for this College, and of such other professors and assistant professors as may be assigned to duty in this College by authority of the Board of Regents.

ARTICLE II. The regular undergraduate course of instruction shall Courses. extend over a period of two years, The instruction shall be con ducted according to such schedules as may from time to time be authorized by the Board of Regents. There shall be such other special and post-graduate courses of instruction as may be authorized by the Board of Regents. There shall be such exercises in writing and speaking as the Faculty shall direct.

ARTICLE III. Applicants for admission to the regular undergraduate course of instruction who bring a final certificate for the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Department are admitted without further examinations. Other applicants must pass examinations in all the studies of the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Department. Only real equivalents shail be accepted.

ARTICLE IV. Students who complete a course of study to the satisfaction of the Faculty, will, upon their recommendation, receive the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture; but any person, not a candidate for this degree, who may appear to be competent to receive the instruction, may attend the classes and undergo the examinations in any subjects, and, if successful, will receive a certificate to that effect.

CHAPTER IV.

OF THE COLLEGE OF MECHANIC ARTS.

Admission

Degrees

and Certificates.

ARTICLE I. The Faculty of this College shall consist of the presi dent [of the University), ex officio, of such professors and assistant pro. Faculty. fessors as may be employed in and for this College, and of such other professors and assistant professors as may be assigned to duty in this

College by authority of the Board of Regents.

ARTICLE II. There shall be three regular undergraduate courses of Courses. instruction, extending over a period of two years, to wit:

A Course in Civil Engineering;

A Course in Mechanical Engineering;
A Course in Architecture.