Imagens da página
PDF
ePub

upright and good citizens they are required to use all lawful exertions to prevent and expose all violations of the laws of God and the country, and whatever is at variance with the objects of the university.

6. In order that the principal of the institution may be enabled, the more effectually to guard the students from evil, no student from abroad may board or reside in any place disapproved of by him, and any instructor shall be readily admitted into the rooms of any such student at any time, and into the rooms of all students occupying rooms in the building of the university, and if not admitted, an entrance by force may be made, and all damages thence arising shall be paid by the student offending. Every thing in the buildings of the institution shall be accessible to an officer.

7. Penalties, in case of pupils not more than sixteen years of age, and when the misdemeanor does not require suspension from the privileges of the university, shall be at the discretion of the instructors, subject to the control of the principal. In all cases when a student, after repeated counsel and warning, appears to be incorrigibly indolent, troublesome or vicious, and is, in the opinion of the principal, an injurious member of the institution, notice shall be given to his parent or guardian, and his connection with the university dissolved.

8. There shall be published at the close of each term, a statement showing the standing of each student in his studies and also in his deportment. Instead of the name, a cypher shall be employed, and made known only to the student and his parent or guardian. The first statement shall be made out from the average of daily recitations; if these have been perfect, he shall be marked 40, or with a number proportionately less as they fall short of the standard of perfection. If his attendance and deportment have been exemplary, he shall be marked 40, or with a number less, in proportion as those fail to be satisfactory.*

9. It shall be the duty of each student to be present at all examinations of his class; and if any scholar shall absent himself, without giving to the principal a satisfactory reason, he shall be considered as dishonorably dismissed.

Chapter VI.-Of Term Bill.

1. Tuition shall be in the branches of Detroit and Monroe for the first year, $19 50; for the second year, $18; for the third and every succeeding year, $15. In the other branches it shall be first year, $15; for the second year, $13 50; for the third and

*Thus the annexed statement shows that the student whose cypher is 18. D. BF is perfect in his studies, but a little deficient in attendance or deport- B F40 37 ment; whilst A H has done but little in his studies, and his deportment C D 20,39 has been decidedly bad. Excused deficiencies are not noticed in this A H 90

statement.

13

[ocr errors]

every succeeding year, $12; and one tenth part of such tuition fees shall be appropriated under the direction of the principal and board of visitors for the purchase of works of reference and books for the branch library.

2. If a student shall leave, or be dismissed before the middle of the term, he shall be charged for one half of the same; and if after the middle, for the whole.

3. When any student, after having pursued a course of study in any branch of the university, shall engage as teacher of primary schools in this state, the regents will refund his tuition, viz: one year's tuition for each year he shall spend in teaching, until he shall have received a sum equal to the amount paid by him for tuition at the branch.

Chapter VII.-Of Dismission.

1. Any student, not a minor, or whose parent or guardian requests it, may have a certificate of dismission under the signature of the principal, if he sustains a good character, and all dues of the university are satisfied; but the certificate may not contain anything respecting his scholarship unless he be examined for that purpose.

Chapter VIII-Of the Library.

1. The library of each branch shall be open to the students and officers thereof, under such regulations and by-laws as shall be prescribed by the principal and approved by the board of visitors.

The following resolution is published for the information of all who are in anywise officially connected with the branches of the university of Michigan:

From the journal of the Board of Regents.

"Resolved, That the laws for the government of the branches contemplate, in the opinion of the regents, a series of uninterrupted studies; and therefore, that any suspension of the usual and regular recitations on Wednesday afternoon, is clearly in violation of said rules."

Adopted July 17, 1838.

Course of Studies in the Classical Department. Woodbridge and Willard's geography, and Keith on the

Globes.

1. Robbins' outlines of history.

2. Webster's English grammar.

4. Porter's rhetorical reader.

5. Pinnock's Goldsmith's England.
6. Jamison's and Whateley's rhetoric.
7. Kames' elements of criticism.

1. Andrews' and Stoddard's latin lessons.

[blocks in formation]

5. Cornelius Nepos.

6. First book of Virgil's Ænied with reference to prosody. 7. Vita Washingtonii.

8. Dellaways and Adams' Roman antiquities.

9. Anthon's Sallust.

10. Anthon's Cicero's orations.

11. Cicero's Tusculan questions.

12. Virgil.

13. Cicero de Senectute, de Amacitia, de Officiis. 14. Horace.

15. Fulsom's Livy.

16. Cicero de oratore.

17. Tacitus historia, Germania, Vita Agricola. 18. Quintillian.

19. Juvenal.

1. Goodrich's Greek lessons.

2. Anthon's Greek grammar.

3. Jacob's Greek reader, (Boston edition.)

4. Anthon's Greek prosody.

5. Xenophon's anabasis.

6. Cleveland and Potter's Grecian antiquities.

7. Gracæ majora.

8. Greek testament.

9. Eschinus and Demosthenes de Covona.

10. Plato.

11. Homer.

12. Select tragedies, viz: Prometheus of Eschylus, Antigone and Electra of Sophocles, and Alcestes of Euripides.

1. Bush's Hebrew grammar and christomathy.

2. Vander Hooght's Hebrew bible.

1. Davies' arithmetic.

[blocks in formation]

4. do Legendre's geometry.

5. do surveying.

6. Bridge's conic sections.
7. Olmstead's natural philosophy.

9. Davies' descriptive geometry.

10. do shadows and linear perspective. 11. do analytical geometry.

12. Comstock's chimistry.

13.

14.

do

mineralogy.

do botany.

15. Comstock's geology.

[blocks in formation]

Nos. 12 to 16 inclusive are adopted only until more suitable text books in those branches of study respectively, can be published under the direction of the regents.

1. Wayland's moral science.

2. McIlvaine's evidences of christianity.
3. Upham's mental philosophy.
4. Jamison's and Whateley's logic.
5. Wayland's political economy.
6. Mansfield's political grammar.
7. Butler's analogy.

Books of reference and of occasional study.

Webster's dictionary.

De Lacy's general grammar.

Butman's large Greek grammar.

Cousin's psychology.

Lieber's political ethics.

The course of studies in the teacher's department is to consist of the above, omitting only the Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages.

The above course is intended to include frequent exercises in translations, English composition, elocution, &c., under the direction of the principal.

[blocks in formation]

[No. 2.]

Report of the Auditor General to the Hon. Legislature, at its session, January, 1840.

AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Detroit, December 14, 1839.

Having been appointed by his excellency governor Mason, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the late auditor general, Robert Abbott, Esq., it becomes my duty to report the transactions of this department for the year 1839. By a law of the last session of the legislature, the fiscal year was thereafter directed to commence with and terminate on the 1st December; in pursuance of that law, this report embraces the transactions of this office, between January 1st and November 30th, 1839-each branch under its appropriate head.

General Fund.

The expenditures charged to the above mentioned fund, amount to the sum of $160,368 92, (see abstract A,) for particulars, reference is hereby made to the account current against the state treasurer, which, with a balance against the state on the 1st day of January last, of $11,553 26, makes $171,922 18 the gross amount of disbursement for the general expenses of the state. The receipts to the credit of the general fund amount to the sum of $144,270 33, (see abstract B,) by which it will be seen the balance against the state for over drafts on the Michigan state bank, and warrants afloat unpaid, amounts to the sum of $27,651 85; in other words the net receipts from all sources to defray the current expenses of the state, are deficient by that sum.

It will be perceived, that the receipts from all sources that should properly be resorted to for the payment of current expenses, form an inadequate amount to meet the demands for that purpose; and the time has now actually arrived, when it becomes necessary to depend upon such sources of revenue as are afforded, by the ample means within the state, rather than resort to the ruinous policy of supplying the treasury from temporary or permanent loans.

The limited sources of revenue within the state at its organization, and the necessity which then existed for a resort to loans to meet the large and extraordinary demands against it, cannot at present, under its increased wealth and population, form an excuse for a further resort to loans to meet its expenses-the more direct, means for the support of a government comes from the people, the more likely the expenditures of those means are to be husbanded. Acting upon the principle

« AnteriorContinuar »