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cident has given these gentlemen the 

 extraordinary position they hold in 

 higher education and in the community. 

 In The Educational Eeview, for No- 

 vember, President Eliot, whose ability, 

 persistence, personality and long ten- 

 ure of office have been important fac- 

 tors in developing the autocracy of the 

 presidential office in the university and 

 its function as general adviser on all 

 subjects in the community, writes 

 pleasantly about ' ' The University 

 President in the American Common- 



Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, 



Professor of Genetic Psychology at 



Teachers College, Columbia University. 



Vice-president for Education. 



wealth. ' ' He says : ' ' Most American 

 professors of good quality would re- 

 gard the imposition of duties concern- 

 ing the selection of professors and 

 other teachers, the election of the presi- 

 dent, and the annual arrangement of 

 the budget of the institution as a seri- 

 ous reduction in the attractiveness of 

 the scholar's life and the professorial 

 career. ' ' The question arises how one 

 who knows so little about the thoughts 

 •of professors can adequately fulfill the 

 paternal function, and whether the kind 

 of persons the president thinks the pro- 



l>i;. <iK(n;i;i: T. Ladd. 

 Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Yale 

 T'niversity, Vice-president for Anthro- 

 pology and Psychology. 



Dr. J. Pease Norton, 



Yale University, Vice-president for Social 



and Economic Science. 



