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tion. This fact sliould ho cloarly ami ])orsistently set forth. In a Rtato insti- 

 tution or in su<-h institutions as arc reprosontod in this association tlic sui»rcni- 

 acy 1)1" the law of tlic land and the ncccssily of f^ood citiztMiship should he as 

 ( Icar as the day. College authorities slioidd turn over to the Stati' authorities 

 every offender. It may ajipear ri^rid and cold in the tirst instance or two, hut 

 there will he a lonj,' interval hetween trouhles. In my own experience I have 

 not hesitati'd to declare that the law of the State would he enforced and that I 

 should rcf^ard any destruction of property or interference with the rijrhts of 

 ( itizens or students as proof of a kind of citizenship that could not he endin-ed 

 in a collej,'e. I helieve that American students respect an administration that 

 respects itself and respects the law of the land. In a college, as elsewhere, the 

 cure for disorder is a hii^h order of citizenship. Let the high ideals of a 

 jLcenuine democracy inspire the c(»lle.i,'es and we shall hear less of hazini?. of 

 dislionorahle college traditions, hut more of scholarsliij), of college fellowship, 

 and of social service. 



a. E. Fellows, of Maine. It appears to me that the student has three rela- 

 tionships in the university or college. One is toward the educational adnunistra- 

 tion, whatever has to do with its class of work, his examinations, and his degrees ; 

 another relation is with his fellow-students and with the faculty as social 

 memhers of the community, and the third is with the comnuniity at large — the 

 public. 



It should not he the part of the student in any way to dictate the terms in 

 which he is related to the educational features of the institutions. Those are 

 already provided for hy statute or hy the organization of the institutioiL As to 

 relation to his fellows, there is no reason in my mind why there should he 

 formal rides. I think most of us have come to helieve that. 



In the relation of the student to the citizen and puldic in general there is a 

 growing desire to throw the whole responsibility on the civil authorities. I 

 believe myself that that is the only way to deal with all such (luestions. I 

 think the college authorities should not deal with them, but that they should be 

 dealt with entirely hy the civil authorities, and the sooner they are taken up by 

 the civil authorities the better. I believe all sorts of offenses which in any 

 way constitute civil offenses should not be ignored, hut should be taken notice 

 of as any other good citizen takes notice of them, but not in any way taken up 

 by the college authorities for the purpose of college discipline. 1 leave purposely 

 the relation of the students with each other and with the faculty in a social way 

 to them, and after an experiment for two years it seems to be e.vtremely suc- 

 cessful in solving the difiiculties that have arisen in that way. We do not give 

 up our authority as regards offenses, if thei-e he offetises against the edu- 

 cational orders and discii»line of the institution. And we have disi>osed of the 

 civil affairs as I have already told you. lUit with relation to the student 

 affairs we have established a council called the university coimcil, composed of 

 three seniors and two juniors and four memhers of the faculty. The fac- 

 ulty memhers are elected by the faculty, and the two juniors who are elected 

 serve through both their junior and senior years, and thus there are always 

 two experienced student mend)ers of the council. At the beginning of the 

 senior year the seniors elect a third memher and the juniors elect tluMr two 

 new memhers. All affairs that seem to need attention, not necessarily of 

 discii)line, for the uiilinilding of the institution or the furthering of student 

 interest or the general furthering of university interests in the public, and with 

 the State or the <'onsideration of matters which really need attention in the way 

 of disciiiline, but are not stri<-tly rel.-ited to the educational affairs of the in- 

 stitution, are dealt with by this council. In several instances the council itself — 

 that is, the student i)ortion of the (oniuil has brought up to the whole council 

 matters which needed correction in the student body. I do not think that the 

 general body of students feels in any way that it is watched hy the council, or 



