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professors should elect a president, a man with expert knowledge of 

 education and university administration, whose salary, dignity and 

 powers should be similar to those of individual professors. The uni- 

 versity should be divided into schools as units, each of which should 

 elect its dean and executive committee and should nominate men to fill 

 vacancies. These nominations should be subject to approval by a board 

 of advisers, consisting of professors from the school concerned, from 

 related schools and from outside of the university; but final election 

 should be by the university senate, and subject to veto by the trustees. 

 Each school should have educational as well as financial autonomy and 

 its property should be a trust fund for its benefit. Eepresentatives 

 from all schools should be elected to a senate, which should legislate for 

 the university as a whole and should be co-ordinate with the trustees. 



Reorganization along the lines of either method would bring about 

 the desired result. The faculty's influence would pervade the whole 

 institution and the work throughout would be directed to educational 

 ends. 



Undoubtedly were such changes effected others would come about. 

 In all probability, catalogues, for a time, would show a decreased num- 

 ber of matriculants and possibly the total of benefactions reported to 

 the commissioner of education would be diminished seriously. The 

 writer has long believed with Professor Jastrow that decrease in bene- 

 factions and in the number of matriculants would not be serious evils. 

 While the number of matriculants might be less, the proportion of 

 students would be more and while the total of benefactions might be 

 less, the amount devoted to genuine educational work would be more. 

 The number of colleges might be reduced — certainly no calamity. 

 Many so-called colleges, described by the editor of a prominent religious 

 paper as academies with a college annex, might disappear. As acade- 

 mies with a few teachers, they could pay their way — with their petty 

 college annex, they have a deficit. These gone, there would be relief 

 to the generously-inclined; and a great amount of money, no longer 

 wasted on them, would be available for other purposes. 



