Student Control 



realizing that student control elsewhere had often 

 proved a farce, I insisted on guarantees that it should 

 really protect the institution from evil within and 

 scandal without. To initiate the policy, therefore, I 

 called together an advisory body by asking each 

 department to send me its best man, a method which 

 convened as fine a group of young fellows as could be 

 met anywhere, and who took their duties seriously. 

 Under the leadership of Herbert Stolz, '09, Almon Seif- 

 Roth, '09, Cortez Shelton, '08, Marion Kirkwood, '09, 

 and others, they laid the foundation for sound self- 

 government; this provided for the election by upper 

 classmen of a committee to supervise student be- 

 havior under certain general rules established by the 

 faculty, who are legally held responsible for law and 

 order. The system then (1910) inaugurated remained 

 in operation with general success and satisfaction 

 until the entrance of the United States into war called 

 most of the older men to the colors, when it was sus- 

 pended, to be resumed upon their return in 1919. 



To the courage and persistence of Professor Clark Debt to 

 during a very trying episode the University owes a clark 

 great debt. It is not easy to stand out against tem- 

 porary clamor even with the certainty that the 

 tide of public opinion will soon turn the other way! 



In June, 1908, I was called to undertake in behalf 

 of the Federal Government a series of investigations 

 relating to the protection and conservation of fish- 

 eries along the Canadian border. The previous year, 

 James Bryce (then British Ambassador at Washing- 

 ton) had been strongly impressed by the confusion 



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