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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to make their own rules of proceeding, and to make fundamental
regulations for the government and discipline of the University, in
all which meetings a majority of the whole number of regents shall
be a quorum to do any business, except to vacate the seat of the
provost of said University, or of any of the professors or lecturers,
for which purpose the consent of three-fourths of the whole number
of the regents shall be necessary, and then only on a formal impeachment. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 159. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the Faculty of
Physic of the
said University, shall hold one term in each and every year, which
shall commence on the third Monday in October in each year, and
shall continue not less than four nor more than six months, as may
be regulated by the ordinances of the University, within which
period all the lectures to be delivered by said faculty shall be given,
except the lectures on botany, and such other lectures as the regents
shall deem most proper to be delivered at a different season. |
Faculty of physic
shall hold one
term annually—
lectures. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in order to animate
and encourage
the students of the said University to a laudable diligence,
industry and progress, in the professions and sciences taught therein,
the said regents, and their successors, shall, by a written mandate
under their privy seal, and the hand of their provost, have
full power and authority to direct the different faculties to hold
public commencements, either on stated annual days, or occasionally,
as the future ordinances of the said institution may direct,
and at the said commencements to admit any of the students of the
said University, meriting the same, whose names shall be severally
inserted in the said mandate, to the office and profession of surgeon,
or to the degree of bachelor or doctor of physic, or doctor
of divinity, or doctor of laws, and bachelor or master of arts;
and further, the said provost shall have made out, and sign with
his own hand, diplomas and certificates of the admission to such offices
or degrees, which diplomas and certificates shall be sealed
with the common or public seal of the University, and delivered to
the graduates as honourable and perpetual testimonials of such admission;
which diplomas or certificates, in order to confer still
greater honour on such graduates, shall also be signed by as many
of the different professors and lecturers as can conveniently sign
their names thereon. |
Faculties to hold
public commencement,
and grant
diplomas. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no student or students
within
the said University shall be admitted to any of the aforesaid offices
and degrees, or have their name or names inserted in any mandate
for that purpose, until such student or students shall have been first
duly examined and thought worthy of the same, at a public examination
of candidates, to be held in the said University, on the day
of commencement, by and in the presence of the regents, and such
other persons as may attend the same, and also until such student
or students shall have had such previous private examinations, and
have performed such exercises as shall be prescribed by the future
ordinances of the said University. |
Offices & degrees
—students not to
be admitted without
an examination. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no student or
students in the
said University shall be admitted to the degree of bachelor of physic,
except he or they shall have attended medical lectures in the
said University during one term, or to the degree of doctor of physic,
or doctor of divinity, or doctor of laws, except he or they |
Degrees, &c. |
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