EXCERPTA E STATUTIS COLLEGI DE GONVILLE ET CAIUS IN ACADEMIA CANTABRIGIENSI, ET E STATUTIS ACADEMIÆ. PRIMO M.DCC.XCII., COLLEGII GONVILLO-CAIANI JUSSU ; TYPIS ACADEMICIS EXCUDUNTUR CANTABRIGIÆ. M.DCCC.XLIII. THE Editor of this volume has frequently heard the complaint that the Student has for the most part to ascertain the regulations of his College and of the University from his fellowstudents, rather than from his instructors and from a clear or written statement of the rules which he is required to obey. To one who is anxious in a free and manly spirit to fulfil his responsibilities, this circumstance presents a difficulty of a serious nature; for an ingenuous mind will not be satisfied to plead even ignorance as an excuse for breaches of order. The University was wont in former years to supply this knowledge to her newly matriculated members. This College followed the same laudable practice in printing a Collectanea of Rules pertaining to the Student gathered out of the statute laws of the University and of the College. These sources of information have for several years been withheld, because, among other reasons, some of the matter was inapplicable to the present state of things: this reason, however, cannot invalidate those rules and principles which are now applicable. To supply the place of those assistants to a knowledge of their duties, which Students so greatly require at their first arrival at the University, the Editor has drawn up the present volume for the use of the members of his own College. His sole design is to assist them to a clear and complete acquaintance with their position and its duties, in the hope that, after a conscientious fulfilment of their Academical course, they may prove an honour to their College, and exhibit in their public and private life a striking illustration of the excellence of those principles which it is the design of our Academic studies to impart and to mature. It is scarce necessary to state that the Extracts from the College Statutes in English are Translations: and the Editor is 1-2 happy in having received good assistance in this part of his work from two of his pupils. The Excerpta from the University Statutes are a portion of the book which used to be put in the hands of the Students at Matriculation; together with a few of the more recent Orders, upon practical matters. ἐμῶν νομίμων μὴ ἐπιλανθανοῦ· τὰ δὲ ῥηματά μου τηρείτω σὴ A Proemium ad Caienses. UTHORITATE regia serenissimorum principum Philippi et Mariæ, Dei gratia regis et reginæ Angliæ, Hispaniarum, Franciæ, utriusque Siciliæ, Jherusalem et Hiberniæ, fidei defensorum, etc., per literas suas patentes datas Westmonasterii quarto die Septembris, anno Domini, 1557, et annis regnorum suorum quarto et quinto concessas, prescribimus vobis, filii charissimi, statuta et regulas vivendi, prout ad quemque vestrum maxume quæque pertineant; quo vestro Collegio bene sit, vos in eo feliciter vivatis, et bonis literis virtuteque cum gloria proficiatis ad Dei honorem, Reipublicæ usum, et rem vestram. Non solum enim possessionibus ædificiisque ampliare, sed honoribus etiam et consiliis Collegium vestrum et vos ornare et amplificare vehementer cupimus. L XV. Of the Election of our Scholars. ET all the Scholars be set apart from the rest, and let those be first proposed for election by the Fellows, whom the Master shall have approved, after they have been previously strictly examined. Regard must also be paid as to whether they are of unimpeachable morals, good disposition and expectations; whether they are clever, tractable, industrious. Let those who have these qualifications be eligible, the rest ineligible. Let the decision in this matter be vested in the Master and the greater part of the Fellows, without any partiality: |