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PRIZES. 

 FARXSWORTH RHETORICAL MEDALS. 



Isaac D. Farnsworth, Esq., of Boston, has generously pro- 

 vided a fund of fifteen hundred dollars, which is to be used 

 for the purchase of gold and silver medals, to be annually 

 awarded, under the direction of the college faculty, for ex- 

 cellence in declamation. 



GRINNELL AGRICULTURAL PRIZES. 



Hon. William Claflin of Boston has given the sum of one 

 thousand dollars for the endowment of a first prize of fifty 

 dollars, and a second prize of thirty dollars, to be called the 

 Grinnell Agricultural Prizes, in honor of George B. Grinnell, 

 Esq., of New York. These prizes are to be paid in cash to 

 those two members of the graduating class who may pass the 

 best oral and written examination in theoretical and practi- 

 cal agriculture. 



HILLS BOTANICAL PRIZES. 



For the best herbarium collected by a member of the class 

 of 1880, a prize of fifteen dollars is offered, and, for the sec- 

 ond best, a prize of ten dollars ; also a prize of five dollars 

 for the best collection of woods, and a prize of five dollars 

 for the best collection of dried plants from the college farm. 



EEGULATIONS. 



I. — Students are forbidden to combine for the purpose of 

 absenting themselves from any required exercise, or violating 

 any known regulation of the college. 



II. — The roll shall be called five minutes after the rum- 

 ing of the bell, for each exercise of the college, by the officer 

 in charge, unless a monitor be employed ; and students who 

 do not answer to their names will be marked absent, pro- 

 vided that an)' student coming in after his name has been 

 called shall be marked tardj^ Two tardinesses shall be 

 reckoned as one absence. 



III. — Absence from a single exercise maybe allowed or 

 excused by the officer in charge of the same, if requested 

 beforehand ; but permission to be absent from several exer- 



