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without the aid of the board or some other 

 committee, and it is distinctly unwise to do 

 so if nominations are made through the mails. 



If the board or a special committee is to act 

 at all on nominations it seems better for it 

 to nominate in the first place than to act on 

 haphazard nominations afterwards. If the 

 board itself nominates there is no reason why 

 it should not send ample notice of its ticket 

 to all the members of the association. In the 

 absence of such notice it is not usually desira- 

 ble that the board should nominate its own 

 future members; for reasonable continuity in 

 the management of an association is sufB- 

 ciently insured by changing only a part of the 

 board at a time, and the action of a series of 

 nominating committees appointed from year 

 to year by retiring presidents is less likely to 

 cause continued irritation to a section of the 

 association than the corresponding action of a 

 practically self-perpetuating board. 



If an official slate is unsatisfactory there Is 

 more chance to break it under a rule allowing 

 other nominations to be made by groups of a 

 certain size than under one allowing them to 

 be made by single individuals. 



No plan of election by members present at 

 the annual meeting has been shown to be 

 better than the common one of allowing the 

 retiring president to appoint a nominating 

 committee. 



If an association exists for the sake of its 

 meetings and does not attempt in any way to 

 regulate the practise of a profession, it is ques- 

 tionable how far its machinery should be 

 complicated for the sake of giving those who 

 do not attend the meetings a voice in its 

 management. 



H. Austin Aikins 



Western Reserve University 



STANFOBD VNIVEBSITT 

 The trustees of Stanford University have 

 increased the president's budget for the aca- 

 demic year of 1914^15 by approximately $75,- 

 000 over that of the present year, which was 

 about $475,000. Of the increase, $33,370 is for 

 additions to the salaries of the present mem- 



bers of the faculty, and $20,000 for an addi- 

 tion to the usual allotment for departmental 

 equipment. Ten thousand dollars of the in- 

 crease to the budget is for the maintenance of 

 the university's memorial church, which upon 

 the completion of rebuilding since the earth- 

 quake has been placed under the president's 

 direction. The salary increases have been ap- 

 portioned among the ranks in the teaching 

 force as follows : professors, $11,950 ; associate 

 professors, $6,350; assistant professors, $10,- 

 700 ; instructors, $4,370. The trustees also an- 

 nounce a number of new buildings to be added 

 to the university plant. These include, for 

 the medical school in San Francisco, the re- 

 modeling of the main hospital building and 

 the addition immediately of a new wing prac- 

 tically doubling the capacity of that building, 

 and later the erection of a new women's 

 building; and on the campus at Palo Alto a 

 new library building, a new gymnasium for 

 men and a new museum building. The library 

 building, preliminary plans for which are 

 being drawn, based upon suggestions by Li- 

 brarian G. T. Clark, who has recently visited 

 new college libraries in various parts of the 

 country, will with the new museum form the 

 front of a new quadrangle approximately of 

 the same size as the present main quadrangle 

 of the university, which is not quite 900 feet 

 long, and will lie just east of it. The museum 

 will not be undertaken for two or three years. 

 The present museum is about a quarter of a 

 mile from the main quadrangle, and President 

 Branner in his inaugural address, urging the 

 educational value of beauty, declared that the 

 art collections here are practically inaccessible 

 to the average student. In this same connec- 

 tion, and following the president's suggestion 

 in the same address, the trustees are working 

 out a comprehensive scheme of landscape 

 gardening for the beautification of the uni- 

 versity grounds. The salary and equipment 

 increases and the new building announce- 

 ments are in fulfilment of a statement pub- 

 lished a year ago by the Stanford trustees, in 

 which they declared that the resources of the 

 university will in the future justify an in- 

 crease in the annual allotment for academic 



