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growth, or both, will ensue, with longer periods of bal- 

 anced income and outgo. 



As losing systems of exchange cannot come into 

 being, the systems that actually do exist are either bal- 

 anced systems, or profitable ones, or those that have 

 been profitable. 



Thus the administrative problems of self-construc- 

 tion are everywhere the same; the same for a college, 

 a city, a nation, a factory, or for a human being, that 

 they are for the humblest plant, or animal, or for the 

 world of life at large. They are problems of the ways 

 and means to liberate the latent creative powers in the 

 inner and outer life of each constituent part. These 

 ends are always attained by the same means, by mutual 

 services, by self-imposed discipline, and by construc- 

 tive Tightness. 



A college, for example, is a unit, or organ, within a 

 still larger unit, the state. Each of these units has its 

 own peculiar structures and functions, subject to its 

 own internal sovereign conditions. Each unit helps to 

 create and preserve the other, and although each is a 

 distinct individuality, both are cooperatively one. 



The quality of the college is always manifest in what 

 it does; by what it selects, or draws to itself in self- 

 construction; and by what it eliminates, or excludes in 

 self-protection. Its inner life is expressed by the life 

 of its constituent elements, or in the digestion, convey- 

 ance, and assimilation of constructive agents, bodily 

 and mentally, drawn from the outer world. The con- 

 stituents themselves create the restrictive and directive 

 influences peculiar to its internal environment; upon 

 their mutual services, and upon the right construction 



