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policies. All suggestions should be presented in organized form, so 

 stated to secure easy reference to appropriate committees. 



These suggestions should be turned over, for analysis and recom- 

 mendation, to the official committees of the faculty. There should be 

 a large number of these and they should deal with all aspects of the 

 scholastic and social life of the institution. The first few days of the 

 faculty meetings may very well be given over to committee meetings 

 of various kinds. Every member of the faculty should be a member of 

 some official faculty committee, each thus being engaged in helping to 

 work out the official policies of the institution. On the latter days 

 of this week of meetings there should be regular meetings of the full 

 faculty, every man present or accounted for, at which the constructive 

 program of the university year shall be thoroughly considered. 



All new suggestions should be carefully gone over in appropriate 

 committees ; all new problems considered in full ; all the larger needs of 

 the institution fully and freely discussed, both in committee meetings 

 and in appropriate faculty meetings. The result of this week's work of 

 individuals, faculties and committees should be, in the main, the deter- 

 mination of the general institutional policies for the year. 



The regular faculty meetings should be for real discussion and 

 deliberation; and it should be distinctly understood that the delibera- 

 tions are worth something and that the decisions are to become the 

 actual policies of the university, to be really administered by the officials 

 of the institution, within the limits of the university's resources. A 

 large university policy made up of suggestions offered freely by members 

 of the faculty and worked out by the faculty itself in its own corporate 

 meetings will command the loyalty and support of the faculty in a new 

 way ; and it will give some excuse for holding faculty meetings. 



In addition to all these things, however, there should be a large 

 number of voluntary committees, working with the organization and 

 under general control of the university policy, having no authority to 

 bind the university in any specific way, but simply helping in making 

 the university policy successful. Every member of the faculty should 

 be a member of some one of these voluntary committees. These oppor- 

 tunities for university service are unlimited; but there should be such 

 voluntary committees on the following lines, at least: 



1. Athletics: There should be in addition to the official committee 

 on athletics a voluntary committee of fifteen or twenty members of the 

 faculty loosely working together to secure a larger participation of the 

 student body and faculty alike in athletics and physical education ac- 

 tivities of all sorts. This committee should be composed of men and 

 women interested in all forms of athletics and physical education, and 

 it should work with class officers, with fraternities and: sororities, and 

 all other sorts of organizations in developing a larger university atten- 



