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(•iiiiil)ersoiiio for luodeni odiR'ational institutions and ho thorefore 

 favored presidential <rovernment. The president shonld be a irood 

 business num but more than a money getter. He shouhl be a good 

 man. strong mtellectually, broad minded, able to appear before men, 

 patient and sympathetic, a ruler of men. The college is a business 

 corporation engaged in educational enterprises and it should have at 

 the head of it a single man of ability, who should represent the trustees 

 on the one hand, the faculty on the other. He should have general 

 supervision over discipline but sliould leave the details of it to others. 



In discussing this paper W. E. Stone emphasized the points 

 alread}' brought out and called attention to the fact that the busi- 

 ness of teachers in colleges is largeh^ to give instruction and conduct 

 research and they should, therefore, be relieved largely of adminis- 

 trative affairs. In the land-grant colleges and State universities 

 there are many great problems which are not primarily educational 

 and these should be left to the president. M. H. Buckham believed 

 that members of boards of trustees should be impressed with the 

 fact that they have no power except as members of the board, no 

 individual relations to the colleges. AV. E, Garrison maintained 

 that the president should be held responsible for results but that .he 

 should have the advice of at least one man on his faculty occupying 

 such a position as dean which would bring him in view of the whole 

 field of college work. AV. H. S. Demarest held that the discussion 

 thus far tended to put the board of trustees too far awaj^ from the 

 college and that the board should give some cognizance to details, 

 in fact should let it be known that in verj^ rare occasions it would 

 consider grievances of students or faculties. 



In the absence of H. H. Harrington and K. C. Babcock, the dis- 

 cussion of the extent to which military discipline should be applied 

 in agricultural colleges was opened by W. J. Kerr, who held that 

 many institutions, owing to difficulties arising from large attendance 

 and lack of dormitory facilities which would hold the college com- 

 munity together, have been unable fully to meet the requirements 

 of the War Department in this respect. He believed, however, that 

 the minimum requirement of the War Department was not too great 

 for institutions having suitable facilities for meeting this require- 

 ment. ^Y. E. Stone, J. H. Connell, and John Hamilton of this Office 

 thought that more attention should be given to the study of larger 

 problems in military tactics, to sanitation, cookery, and other things 

 which will come under the administration of army officers, and less 

 attention to the manual features of military tactics. Presidents 

 Nichols, Patterson, and Edwards were of the opinion that the value 

 of the manual exercises should not be lost sight of, and the latter 

 called attention to the fact that if the military drill during the full 



