STATUTES AND LAWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RELATIVE TO UNDERGRADUATES.

Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf and Company, Printers to the University, 1832., 1832.. Good. - Octavo, 7-7/8 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, printed self-wraps titled on the cover page. Pages [1]-40 & [1]-7, the last seven pages being the "Orders and Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard University". The bottom front corner of the cover page is chipped with a small tear to the top left of that cover page. There is a small chip out from the top of the first leaf of text. The pages are foxed, with heaviest foxing to the cover page. Good. <p>An early Harvard student residing in Holworthy Hall has penned his name on the front cover. Holworthy Hall is the historic dormitory for first year student's at Harvard.<p>It is interesting to note that, in this edition, under "high offences and misdemeanors", the University's board listed "Refusing to give testimony in any case when required by the Faculty, or a Committee thereof; or falsifying therein. In all cases of an attempt to screen individuals, who have committed acts of disorder or violence, by withholding evidence, the Faculty may select for punishment any who, by withholding evidence and screening the guilty, shall thus appear, to the satisfaction of the Faculty, to be actors in or abettors of the crime." Other such offences and misdemeanors included: "Keeping any gun, pistol, or gunpowder, or firing or using the same, in the town of Cambridge. -- Being concerned in any bonfire, fireworks, or unauthorized illuminations. -- Being an actor or spectator at any theatrical entertainment in term time...."<p>Prior revisions to the University's laws had been published in 1826 and 1828. In 1832, Harvard's president Quincy deemed that a revision of the laws were called for. Newly revised laws and statutes relating to undergraduates were adopted by Harvard's corporation and presented to the university's overseers. Though the overseers approved these laws, they added and published with them the Orders and Regulations relating to the faculty. The pamphlet was distributed to new students admitted to Harvard.<p>RARE.