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function should be to con&m the recommendations of the faculty 

 and to lay down general rules under which the faculty may act 

 freely; (2) a faculty consisting of a university faculty to pass legis- 

 lation for all departments, special faculties of agriculture, law, 

 medicine, etc., to have charge of admission, courses of study and 

 regulations for graduation for their respective colleges, and a junior 

 college faculty, the latter to consist of teachers of general courees 

 for freshman and sophmore years; (3) in State imiversities an experi- 

 ment station staff; and (4) an extension staff with a permanent 

 director and special faculty working as members of the different 

 departments in the university. No graduate faculty should be pro- 

 vided for, such being an anomaly in a true university. 



Dean Davenport discussed the administrative relations between 

 the board of trustees, the college president, and the dean and 

 director. He stated two theories with reference to the origin of 

 authority m educational institutions, (1) that it is derived from one's 

 immediate superior, and (2) that authority goes with ability and 

 responsibihty. He beheved that the best organization includes a 

 board of trustees to serve as a legislative body dealing largely with 

 prmciples and little with details, and keeping the institution in close 

 touch with public demands. The board should be a legislative body 

 and should not be concerned with the execution of its laws. 



The president of the college, being the highest executive officer of 

 the mstitution, should be a strong man and should be made respon- 

 sible for the execution of the regulations laid down by the board. 

 He should be a clearing house of university affairs and the only 

 official avenue of communication between the employees and the 

 board, and in fidfilhng this function should deal with each depart- 

 ment as an administrative unit. The department, however, should 

 not be the unit of work; the individual is the luiit of work; and in 

 small institutions there need be no intervening oflicer between the 

 president and the corps of workers. If, however, the institution is 

 large enough to be organized into colleges there should be not (mly 

 departmental organization but departmental groups, presided over 

 by deans or directors who should fimction as administrative clearing 

 houses between the president and the heads of departments. 



The sessions of the new section on extension work pro-saded by the 

 association at its last convention were of much interest, in view of the 

 present activity in extension work and the many problems it presents 

 as to organization, methods, etc. 



The ])rcsent status of agricultural extension was discussed in a 

 paper by K. L. Butterfield. It was shown that 35 colleges and 

 expeiiment stations, representing 32 States and Territories, have 

 now organized for agricultural extension work, the oldest dating back 

 only to 1901 and only 5 extending back beyond 1906. There arc 



