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                    <hi rend="bold"> Letter from David L. Swain to Parent, June 14, 1860 [Containing Rules Concerning the Abuse
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                <author>University of North Carolina (1793-1962). President</author>
                <author>Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868</author>
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                <head>Letter from <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">David L. Swain</name> to Parent, June 14, 1860 [Containing Rules Concerning the Abuse
                    of Liquor and Rules to Control Students' Debts] </head>
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                    <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.</name>
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                        <dateline><name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel
                                Hill</name>, <date>June 14th, 1860</date>.</dateline>
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                    <p>DEAR SIR:—Permit me to request your immediate and earnest attention
                        to the provisions of the following Statute in relation to the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, copied from the Revised Code, Chapter CXIII:</p>
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                                        <head>THE <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North                                                 Carolina" type="organization">UNIVERSITY</name>.</head>
                                        <p>1. Any license granted to retail spirituous liquors, wine
                                            or cordials at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill,                                                 NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within two
                                            miles thereof, shall be void.</p>
                                        <p>2. No person shall erect, keep, maintain, or have at
                                                <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within two miles
                                            thereof, any tippling house, establishment, or place,
                                            for the sale of wines, cordials, spirituous or malt
                                            liquor.</p>
                                        <p>3. No person in the State, without permission in writing
                                            from the President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or some
                                            member of the Faculty, shall sell, or offer to sell, or
                                            deliver, to any student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or to any
                                            other person, any cordial, wine, spirituous or malt
                                            liquor, for the purpose of being used, or with knowledge
                                            that the same will be used at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel
                                            Hill</name>, or within two miles thereof, by any such
                                            Student.</p>
                                        <p>4. No person, at or within two miles of <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, shall give, or furnish, any
                                            electioneering treat or entertainment.</p>
                                        <p>5. No person shall set up, keep, or maintain, at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within five miles thereof,
                                            any public billiard table, or other public table, of any
                                            kind, at which games of chance or skill, by whatever
                                            name called, may be played.</p>
                                        <p>6. No person, without permission, in writing, obtained
                                            therefor from the President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or some
                                            member of the Faculty, seven days before hand, shall
                                            exhibit at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within five
                                            miles thereof, any theatrical, sleight of hand, or
                                            equestrian performances, or any dramatic recitations, or
                                            representations, or any rope or wire dancing, natural or
                                            artificial curiosities, or any concert, serenade or
                                            performance in music singing or dancing.</p>
                                        <p>7. Any person who shall offend against any of the
                                            provisions of this chapter, hereinbefore recited, shall
                                            be deemed guilty of, a misdemeanor.</p>
                                        <p>8. Any contract or agreement by any student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, being then a
                                            minor, with any shop-keeper, merchant, trader, or other
                                            person, upon the sale of any wine, cordial, spirituous
                                            or malt liquor, or any goods, wares or merchandize, or
                                            any article of trade, or with the keeper of any livery
                                            stable, shall be void, unless the same, if made at or
                                            within two miles of <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel                                                 Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, be made
                                            under the written permission of the President of the
                                                <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North                                                 Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or
                                            some member of its Faculty; or if made at a greater
                                            distance from <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, under the written
                                            consent of the person who may have the control and
                                            authority of such Student.</p>
                                        <p>9. Every contract made with a Student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, contrary to
                                            the provisions of the preceding Section shall be void,
                                            and may be avoided, on account of any of the matters
                                            therein contained, on the plea of the general issue; on
                                            the trial whereof, if it appear that the defendant was,
                                            at the time of the alleged contract, a Student of the
                                                <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North                                                 Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, it
                                            shall be presumed that he was, at the making thereof, a
                                            minor.</p>
                                        <p>10. Every such contract shall be incapable of being
                                            confirmed, and any promise or obligation given by such
                                            Student after his arrival at full age shall be void.</p>
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                        <hi rend="underscore">To give full sanction and efficiency to the provisions
                            of the criminal law, the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Trustees</name> have ordained <hi rend="italics">that any Student who may be seen publicly intoxicated shall be
                                dismissed, and any one in whose room ardent spirits may be found,
                                shall forthwith be suspended or dismissed, as the circumstances of
                                the case may seem to require.</hi> This ordinance has been and will
                            be faithfully carried into execution in every instance of ascertained
                            violation.</hi>
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                    <p>A strict adherence by Parents and Guardians to the plain and wise provisions
                        of the law, will effectually shield their sons and wards from imposition. If
                        you will direct me to give notice to all concerned, that no unauthorized
                        account will be paid, you will not merely provide an indemnity for yourself,
                        but render a valuable service to the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of                             North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> and the people of
                        the State.</p>
                    <p>
                        <hi rend="italics">If you wish, therefore, that no contracts shall be
                            entered into, here, in your name or on your account, please say so in a
                            written communication to the Bursar, and make such remittances to him,
                            from time to time, as may be indispensable to meet necessary
                            expenditures. Your silence upon the subject will be regarded as an
                            intimation that no particular supervision upon his part is expected or
                            desired.</hi>
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                    <p>PROFESSOR <name key="pn0000510" reg="Fetter, Manuel" type="person">MANUEL
                        FETTER</name> is the Bursar of the Institution. He will receive any sum of
                        money that you may remit to him for the purpose, pay the tuition, board, and
                        other necessary expenses, without any charge to you for commissions, and
                        transmit an account of expenditures at the close of the session.</p>
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                    <p>Every Student is required to attend prayers thirteen times a week, and Divine
                        worship in the College Chapel, on the Forenoon of every Sabbath. The
                        Freshmen and Sophomores have fifteen, the Juniors seventeen and the Seniors
                        thirteen recitations a week. All absences, whether unavoidable or not, are
                        recorded, and a very simple computation will show the proportion of duties
                        performed or omitted.</p>
                    <p>During the half session, which closed on Friday evening last, (a period of
                        ten weeks,) Mr. ......................... has been absent from Prayers,
                        .......... times, from Recitations .......... times, and from attendance on
                        Divine Worship ............... times.—............... of these
                        absences from Prayers, .......... from Recitation, and .......... from
                        Divine Worship were unavoidable.</p>
                    <p>His relative grade of soholarship in his Class
                        is</p>
                    <p>With respect to the necessary expenses of a Student, the Faculty entertain
                        the opinion, that exclusive of the supplies of clothing ordinarily obtained
                        from home, more than three hundred and twenty-five dollars a year is not
                        necessary either to the comfort or reputation of any one.</p>
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                        <salute rend="center">Yours very respectfully,</salute>
                        <signed><name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">DAVID L.
                                SWAIN</name>, <hi rend="italics">President.</hi></signed>
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                    <head>NOTE BY THE BURSAR.</head>
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                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">Your son has paid, for Tuition,
                                    ..........</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">$ 30</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">00</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                            </row>
                            <row role="data">
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">Deposit, ..........</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">3</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">00</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                            </row>
                            <row role="data">
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">Room Rent, ..........</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                            </row>
                            <row role="data">
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">Servant Hire, ..........</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                            </row>
                            <row role="data">
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">And has, in addition, placed in
                                    my hands to pay board and meet other expenses,</cell>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1"/>
                                <cell role="data" rows="1" cols="1">$</cell>
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