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bers of council eligible to all committees. The 

 advisory board, however, is elected by the council 

 from the full professors only, (d) Have been 

 sometimes acting heads, where there was no full 

 professor. — Stanford. 



(a) Faculty, yes. Council, no. (6) Subject to 

 the head of the department, (c) Yes. (d) If 

 there is a head professor, he is head. If there is 

 none, an assistant professor in the department 

 may act as head. — President Northrop. 



(a) Yes. (6) They are supposed to have, and 

 our policy is to give them, equal voice with full 

 professors, (c) Yes. (d) They have not been in 

 the past, but I have positively committed my 

 administration to an afiBrmative answer to this 

 question for the future. I have had no new per- 

 manent heads of departments appointed, and shall 

 not hesitate to appoint assistant professors. — 

 President Hill. 



(a) Yes. (6) Yes. (c) Yes. (d) Yes as to 

 law, but not as a matter of practise. — President 

 Van Hise. 



(a) They are members of the faculty and have 

 votes in all administrative matters; but they are 

 not as a rule members of the higher bodies that 

 deal with legislation in the narrower sense. (6) 

 Yes. (o) Practically so, except as the greater 

 experience of full professors creates a greater 

 demand for their services on committees. (d) 

 No. It is only in exceptional cases that an 

 assistant professor becomes an executive head of 

 a department. — ^President Hadley. 



Question 5e asked whether it was ad- 

 visable for the younger men of an institu- 

 ti' n to take an active part in forming and 

 executing its policies, and if so, why. 



The replies: 



Yes. For their own development, and to prevent 

 the undue conservatism of age. — President Judson. 



Yes. Because he is more apt to be progressive. 

 — ^President Lowell. 



Yes, assuming that the younger men are on the 

 average equal in ability to the older, they have 

 the advantages of their youth in terms of spon- 

 taneity and energy, and these should not be lost 

 to the university. — President Bryan. 



I think it advisable. With the balance given by 

 the older men of the faculty the university has 

 the advantage of the strength and activity of the 

 younger men, without the danger of their forcing 

 wrong policies on the institution through lack of 

 judgment. Their recognition as a part of the 



administrative machinery, which uoes not exist ii 

 the younger men are not taken into the admin- 

 istrative counsels. — President MacLean. 



Yes, to promote progress. — Dean Templin. 



Yes, in order to realize their difficulties. But 

 they should not be too zealous before studying 

 problems. — President Jordan. 



Yes. Because the institution may profit by the 

 best thought of all — and the younger men 

 sometimes know more than the older. — President 

 Northrop. 



I do. Because they can often render valuable 

 services, and because they thus become more serv- 

 iceable, more loyal to the institution, and find 

 greater satisfaction in their work. — President Hill. 



Yes. Advantageous to have them consider them- 

 selves as part of the institution in the full sense.. 

 — President Van Hise. 



Yes. I regard it as self-evident.— President 

 Hadley. 



Query 5/ asked whether it was desirable 

 to have departments conducted on a demo- 

 cratic or autocratic basis. 

 The replies: 



A qualified democracy is the better. — President 

 Judson. 



Democratic. — President Lowell. 



Autocracy means, as a rule, more immediate- 

 efficiency. Democracy of the right sort means 

 lasting health in the organization, with all the 

 good consequences which flow therefrom. — -Presi- 

 dent Bryan. 



It is desirable that departments be conducted 

 on a democratic basis. — President MacLean. 



Neither. Republican rather. — Dean Templin. 



Democratic in so far as experience and circun>- 

 stances permit. — President Jordan. 



Democratic with a head. — President Northrop. 



Democratic. — President Hill. 



Democratic. — President Van Hise. 



It depends wholly upon the men you have on 

 the stafiF. If the president is wise and the rest 

 of the teaching force foolish, it is desirable that 

 it should be autocratic. If the president is foolish 

 and the rest of the teaching force are wise, it la 

 desirable that it should be democratic. — President 

 Hadley. 



To the request for suggestions concern- 

 ing the problem of the assistant professor- 

 ship, looking toward higher individual or 

 institutional efficiency, there was much 

 more reticence on the part of the presi- 



