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of its machinery of service, the life and growth of the 

 college depends. 



The external life of the college is largely expressed 

 in parental solicitude for its offspring and in the cap- 

 ture of new supplies. To these ends the state invites 

 invasion of her opportunities and forage on her re- 

 sources, subject always to her sovereignty. The col- 

 lege neither creates these opportunities and resources, 

 nor controls their character, distribution, or require- 

 ments, although it may contribute something to them. 

 It must find these opportunities with its own instru- 

 ments, and use these resources as they are. 



Any marked improvement in the inner, or outer, 

 administration of the college will at once liberate 

 growth in some particular, and thereby create some dis- 

 turbance in its system of give and take, supply and de- 

 mand. Something comparable with the federal ad- 

 ministration of life may then intervene to restore a more 

 equitable balance of cooperative services. In that case, 

 the criterion of equity, and the effect of the readjust- 

 ments, if rightly made, will be the betterment of mu- 

 tual services between the college and the state, and 

 thereby the better welfare of all their constituents. 



Man upbuilds all his social institutions in this man- 

 ner, and in doing so he merely follows, consciously or 

 unconsciously, the same administrative methods every- 

 where used by nature in her constructive processes. 

 How far "chance," compulsion, and intelligence enter 

 therein, no one knows. In any case, the constructive 

 results would not, nor could not, be greatly different 

 from what they are, without some radical change in the 

 whole constructive system. In human society, a great 



