RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mar. 1823 and so recorded in SJL; with notations by TJ beneath endorsement related to his 12 Apr. 1823 reply to Cooper: “pamphl Univty Divinity schools.” Enclosure: Laws of the College of South-Carolina (Columbia, 1823; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 6 [no. 226]; TJ’s copy in DLC: Rare Book and Special Collections), trimmed, causing the loss of portions of Cooper’s handwritten comments on, and proposed amendments to the regulations, with these suggestions including elimination of teaching the evidences of Christianity; permission for students to board off campus, since “There can be no steward with whom they will not contrive to quarrel” (p. 10); an end to a rule against students combining together to oppose the faculty’s authority, which was unenforceable, since the students “are all mutually sworn never to give informa[tion] against each other” (p. 13); statements that the faculty did not have time to adhere to a rule that they monitor the expenses of each student, that another prohibiting unauthorized meetings of students was “Impossible to be executed,” and that a prescribed student dress code “Will not [be] complied with” (p. 15); the view that a plan to provide public recognition of the most learned and best-behaved students would be a “perpetual [so]urce of [je]alousy [and] suspicion of the faculty” and “will not be considered as an honour” (p. 16); and the belief that the faculty should be authorized to expel wayward students.