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tliMt tlio council proaclios too imiili. It docs not often preach. The college 

 nuH'tiui; is called and the tacnlt.v arc excused, and some nieniber or mcniliers 

 of the student council make little speeches on matters of f?eneral interest, th(! 

 care of college property, the appearance of students in public or in neighboring 

 towns, or in the matter of social entertainments, in siidi a way that we have 

 been almost entirely relieved for the last four years (if any kind of ditticulties 

 arising lietween the classes or between tlie fraleruitii's nr lietween students and 

 faculty. I can not say that our system would satisfy any other institution. 1 

 do not know that it would. lUit as far as pussihie 1 li.-ive tried to keep the three 

 relationships of the student sei)arate. and I hope that time will establish 

 customs which seem to be growing, so that we shall l»e free from the real ditli- 

 culties of discipline. 



J. C. Hardv, of Mississipiii. The first thing that I think we ought to get before 

 the student body is the correct view of the whole relationship — what the college 

 Is for. We make it very clear to ovu' student body that the college is for them, 

 provided they behave themselves and take advantage of it : that tlie faculty, 

 president, equipment, and (>verythiug exists for the student, and that therefore 

 any retiuirement that is made is not for the benefit of the ] (resident or for the 

 benetit of the faculty or of the college authorities, but for the benetit of the 

 student body, and that the college does not need him, but he needs the college; 

 that the college was established by the legislature of the State for the purpose 

 of giving opportunities to the young men of coming there and etpiipping them- 

 selves for life, and tliat the college has all the students it cares to have unless 

 the student Wiints to come and take advanta,ge and get the benetit of tlie work 

 that the college is doing. I consider that the correct jioint of view of the pur- 

 pose of the student's life and why he is there, and that it is essential to correct 

 discipline. It brings out the idea tiiat was mentioned of a student having a 

 I'urpose in coming to college, and that very puriiose soliering hini and bringing 

 him to decent living. 



Another thing is the (luestion of citizenship. There is no transformation that 

 comes over a young man simitly because he becomes a college student or any 

 requirement that lie should act differently from any])ody else on the trains or 

 elsewhere, and I think by presenting that point and keeping it constantly before 

 the student, but in a common-sense way, the student will lose sight of the old 

 stories that used to be told of how their fathers and grandfathers and uncles 

 went off to college when few men went to college, and how they used to paint 

 the town red and do a thousand different things. That is all being eliminated 

 from college life, because students are beccaning so connnon that they can afford 

 to act like other people. AVe emphasize the point that the college is not only a 

 preparation for life, but that the college is life; that every principle of life, 

 every principle of decent living and decent citizenship that is in life is in that 

 college. The man who is decent there is going to be decent outside, and the man 

 who is not decent in college is not going to be decent outside. 



The colleges of the country are concerned in having a high-toned moral senti- 

 ment in the student body, and that can be done only b.v making it understood 

 that no young man can live in the college or can stay in the college unless headed 

 in the right direction. I am trying to hold in mind, as president of our insti- 

 tution, the tendency of every boy, as to whether he is going in the right direction 

 or the wrong direction. I classify every student that comes under my direction. 

 As I step on the platform at chapel exercises, I can tell you whether a student 

 is going in the right or wrong direction. 



We do not have student control and \\e do not have faculty control when it 

 comes to discipline. I do not believe in letting a question come to an issue. If 



