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my boyhood, I remember the definite organization 

 of our home-grown herd of dairy cattle which it 

 was my duty to drive back the narrow Indiana 

 farm lane to their woods pasture. If no bull was 

 present the position of leader was held by the 

 oldest cow of the lot and after her came the junior 

 members in the order of their ages until at the 

 rear the calves and young heifers that had not 

 yet established their herd order were to be found. 

 I remember with satisfaction the slow progress 

 of a small black half-Jersey from the position of 

 most hooked, least regarded member of the herd, 

 to her rank as leader where she put cows half 

 again her size into place by a shake of her head 

 or at most a few prods of her sharp horns. Usually 

 her authority was unquestioned. 



Oddly enough some twenty years later I was 

 to find the same sort of organization in the faculty 

 meetings of a famous New England college. At 

 the head of the group in a large, high-backed 

 chair sat the president looking down the table 

 to his dean seated in a chair not nearly so large 

 and impressive. Around this table in order of 

 seniority sat the professors in comfortable even 

 though low-backed arm chairs. Back of them, 

 again in order of seniority sat the associate and 

 assistant professors but in hard bottomed Windsor 

 chairs; while at the foot of the table in hard, 



