Magill's 100 Rules
In 1883, the College's second president Edward Magill issued a strict code of conduct to govern students, known as the "100 rules." They stand in stark contrast to the Swarthmore Bucket List of 150 things that resonate with current and past students to do before graduation. The Rules reflect the founders' interest in providing discipline and a guarded education to Swarthmore students, although they were liberalized to attract more students near the end of Magill's tenure as president in 1889.
Admissions and Dismissals
Every applicant for admission shall produce to the President suitable evidence of good moral character… and no such applicant shall be admitted whose character is for any reason unsatisfactory...
The general government of the College students shall be vested in the Faculty, who shall have power to delegate to instructors and others such authority to maintain discipline and repress disorder as they may deem expedient.
Any student who offends by improper conduct of any sort, or by inattention to College duties, shall be formally admonished by the President; if the fault continues unamended, the offender shall be called before the Faculty, who shall administer a second admonition, and also make the case known to the parent or guardian of the offender… if the objectionable conduct should still continue, the offender shall be suspended, advised to withdraw, or expelled, as shall the Faculty be judged suitable to the nature of the offence, and necessary for the preservation of good order.
In case of misconduct so flagrant as to demand immediate action, without previous admonition, the Faculty may administer at once the extreme penalty of expulsion...
No student shall be suspended, advised to withdraw, or expelled, but by a vote of every acting member of the Faculty.
A record of all propositions to inflict these penalties, and all penalties, referring to the offender by number and not by name, shall be kept by the Faculty...
If any student suspended, advised to withdraw, or expelled according to the above rules, shall consider himself or herself aggrieved by any judgment, he or she shall have the liberty of applying within 30 days – but not afterwards – to the Faculty, by a petition in writing, through the President, for a new trial, which shall thereupon take place within 30 days from that date.
Before the end of each term the President shall report to the Committee on Admissions each case of habitually improper or unsatisfactory conduct sufficiently grave to cause a doubt as to the propriety of readmission---