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if our higher education is to be really for democracy, such organization 

 must soon come to be. When it does come it will include much more 

 than is set forth above. Among other things, it will include larger 

 recognition of the fact that the student body is an integral and most 

 important part of the university; and that in all questions affecting 

 the real policy of the university the student body must have a chance 

 to express its deliberate will in a democratic sort of way. But before 

 that chance comes to the student body it is likely that the problem of 

 the democratic participation by the faculty in the actual affairs of the 

 university must be solved. 



Doubtless, monarchical, arbitrary, undemocratic ways of doing 

 things will remain longer in the schools than anywhere else, strange 

 as that may seem. But doubtless, even in the schools, there will some 

 time be found enough intelligence to bring to an end such undemo- 

 cratic survivals from the time of absolute monarchies, and to a beginning 

 the organization of education along lines that will make democracy the 

 very atmosphere of life, in school, out of school, and in all the construct- 

 ive years that follow school. 



