UNIVERSITY CONTROL 



By J. McKEEN CATTELL 



PBOFESSOB OP PSYCHOLOGY IN COLUMBIA UNrVEBSITY 

 TOGETHEB WITH A SeBIEB OP TWO HuNDBED AND NlNETY-NINE UNSIGNED LeTTEBS BY LEADING MEN 



op Science Holding Academic Positions and Abticles by Joseph Jastbow op the Univebsity of 

 Wisconsin, Geobge T. Ladd op Yale Univebsity, John J. Stevenson op New Yobk Untvebsitt 

 J. E. Cbeighton op Cobnell Univebsity, J. McKeen Cattell op Columbia Univebsity, Geohgb 

 M. Stbatton op the UNTVEBsrrY op Calipobnia, Stewabt Paton of Pbinceton, John Jay Chapman 

 op New Yobk, James P. Munboe op Boston, and Jacob Gould Schubman op Cobnell Univebsity 



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Opinions from Different Institutions on the Articles on " University Control" 



I have just been reading your paper on "University Control" in Science for this week. It is glorious. 

 Professor . Harvard University. % , , 



A very moderate statement of the evils arising from the present system of college and university control. 

 Professor . Yale University. 



I am much in favor of the changes which you suggest; in fact, unless some changes are made soon, the 

 entire university system as such wUl go to pieces. Professor . Columbia University. 



I am in thorough sympathy with the plan of university control outlined by you. Professor ■. 



University of Pennsylvania. 



Your proposals concerning the organization of universities are absolutely in line with my own hopes. 

 Professor . Johns Hopkins University. 



I think your scheme emboiies most of the features of what it has seemed to me desirable to evolve 

 towards. Professor . Princeton University. 



The form of organization outlined by you seems to me to be an ideal one and I should be prepared to 

 endorse every paragraph as you present it. Professor . Cornell University. 



Your plan of university control meets my approval most decidedly. Professor . Massachusetts 



Institute of Technology. 



I am heartily in sympathy with your article. Professor . Brown University. 



Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to help you in every possible way to extend the influence 

 of your ideas. Professor . Clark University. 



It is quite obvious that we are floundering in the management of universities, and you are crusading in a 

 good cause when you attempt to bring about conditions under which scholarship, expressed in instruction 



and production or research, may have a fuller or more normal development. Professor . Carnegie 



Institution of Washington. 



I fully agree with your ideas concerning the reform of university control. Professor . Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research. 



I am in cordial sympathy with the efforts you are making to bring about a betterment of university con- 

 ditions. Professor ■■ ■■ ■■ . University of Maine. 



Your plan of university control, as stated in an article received a short time back, appears to me to be 

 very good. Professor . New Hampshire College. 



The reform in university government, which you advocate is, I think, in the right direction. Professor 

 . Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 



I should heartily approve the plan set^orth in your article as a desirable, but far distant, ideal. Pro- 

 fessor . Amherst College. 



I find myself in favor of most of the principles which you advocate in your article on university control. 

 Professor . Dartmouth College. 



What I especially like about this or any other similar scheme is that it involves the rescue of the prof essor 

 from the position of a mere "hand" in the university machinery. Professor - . Smith College. 



I wholly approve of the principle and many of the details of the plan of university control proposed in 

 your paper. Professor . Wellesley College. \ 



Your suggested plan of university control seems to me admirable and calculated to obviate many of th 

 evils of the present system, which are vary grave. Professor . Vassar College. \ 



