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9. What rules shall be enacted coneern- 

 ing the discipline of students and who 

 shall be entrusted with the enforcing of 

 these rules? 



10. What provision, if any, shall be made 

 for calling in outside experts to advise in 

 regard to improvements in educational 

 methods, or what facilities shall be given 

 to the professors to travel and study such 

 methods? 



The above list is not intended as a 

 complete list, but is merely a suggestion as 

 to the kind of questions that may arise in 

 forming a university government. 



The following is suggested as a form 

 of organization which will best secure the 

 desired result: 



A board of trustees, the legal corpora- 

 tion, responsible for the financial manage- 

 ment and for the enactment of broad legis- 

 lation as to matters of general policy. It 

 should contain men of Wealth and social 

 standing, to give it the prestige that such 

 men can bring ; men skilled in business and 

 the law, to look after its invested funds; 

 experienced educators, who^e counsel may 

 be valuable on matters of educational 

 policy; representatives of each of the 

 learned professions that has a college in the 

 university; and representatives of the 

 alumni of each college. Such a body of 

 men under a proper system of government 

 will not need to meet oftener than twice a 

 year except in eases of emergency, nor will 

 it need to take any active part in the de- 

 tails of management, but it would establish 

 a set of rules delegating specific powers 

 to another body of men better qualified 

 than the trustees are to exercise them. 



Such other body is a university senate 

 or council, and it might be composed of, 

 say, three trustees, who are willing to de- 

 vote some time to university matters, of 

 the deans of each college, ex-officio, of one 

 professor from each college, elected for a 

 definite period by its faculty, and of one 



alumnus of each college, not a trustee or 

 holding any other position in the univer- 

 sity, elected by the alumni association of 

 each college. 



This university council should be granted 

 all powers not especially reserved by the 

 board of trustees, and it may delegate such 

 minor powers as it sees fit to the several 

 deans or faculties. 



The president or chancellor of the uni- 

 versity should properly be elected by the 

 trustees. He should represent the uni- 

 versity on all public occasions. If he is an 

 orator and money-getter, all the better ; but 

 whatever he is, it is not wise to give him 

 autocratic power over the faculties nor 

 over the council. 



There might be a vice-chancellor, elected 

 by the trustees on nomination of the coun- 

 cil. It should be his duty to preside over 

 the council, and to have a general over- 

 sight over educational matters, and he 

 therefore should be an experienced edu- 

 cator. 



Given two such bodies, each composed of 

 strong men, and they could be trusted to 

 discover the best system of university 

 government and to frame it in a constitu- 

 tion and by-laws. Under such a govern- 

 ment strong men could be obtained to fill 

 the professors' chairs; they would be 

 secure in their positions as long as they did 

 their duty, and such a disgraceful pro- 

 ceeding as the one that has just taken place 

 at Syracuse would be impossible. 



William Kent 



601 CoMSTOCK Ave., 



Stkacuse, N. Y., 



June 9, 1908 



THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF 

 SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE 



In a paper entitled " Cooperation in Scien- 

 tific Bibliography" which appeared in Sci- 

 ence, April 3, 1908, no mention was made of 

 the work being done by the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature. As the 



