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morally and physically, during their college 

 course and for their widest future usefulness as 

 educated citizens. 



(4) In the administrative department: the sys- 

 tematic study and wide adoption of better and 

 more advanced college administrative methods, to 

 secure the most efficient use of the college capital 

 in character building and scholarliuess ; the de- 

 vising and putting into force of new units of 

 internal valuation of student and instructional 

 work; the reduction of college waste and the 

 college waste-heap in the student, instructional 

 and other departments; the study of the college 

 plant and field; the oversight and assistance of 

 graduates; the bringing about, so far as is wise 

 and desirable, of standardization and uniformity 

 in college methods and standards; the making 

 possible of the interchange of students and in- 

 structors; the relieving of the instructors from 

 administrative details, and the putting of these 

 under charge of administrative experts, whose 

 duty it shall be to produce in every possible way 

 conditions conducive to more efficient work of the 

 instructional forces and to scholarliuess. 



(5) In the department of citizenship: the study 

 of the civics and economics of the college itself, 

 and of its various planes and departments, and 

 of the relations of the student-citizens to the 

 college state, the college community and the col- 

 lege home — all with reference to their future 

 duties, as citizens, to their commonwealth, their 

 community, business or profession, and their 

 homes; the founding of chairs for the study of 

 citizenship; the reorganization and fulfillment of 

 the duties and responsibilities which the colleges 

 themselves owe to the state as the capstones of a 

 system of compulsory public-school instruction 

 which has educated, at the public expense, most 

 of the students who enter the colleges; and the 

 restoration of the clear conceptions which the 

 earlier institutions had of their direct and high 

 obligations to the state as its public servants, to 

 which had been intrusted public and private funds 

 and powers. 



(6) And generally to furnish means to deter- 

 mine and fix the true present position of the 

 college in our educational system; to minimize 

 the danger of injury to the colleges because of 

 the push of the preparatory schools from below, 

 and of the drain of the professional and graduate 

 schools from above; and to inaugurate and foster 

 an active forward movement in the development 

 of the colleges and their curricula. 



( 6 ) To print and publish a magazine or maga- 



zines, and other periodicals, newspapers, pam- 

 phlets or books, and to do a general publishing 

 business. 



(c) To organize and carry on a bureau or de- 

 partment for the employment of professors, 

 teachers and others connected with college in- 

 struction or administration. 



{d) To investigate, through experts or other- 

 wise, the exact conditions prevailing in the col- 

 leges, and to formulate plans to improve such 

 conditions; to organize, develop and maintain, 

 within or without the state of New York, volun- 

 tary and unincorporated associations and assem- 

 blages of college alumni or others interested in 

 the affairs of the colleges or their students, whose 

 direct object shall be to advance the cause of 

 higher education, and to improve the administra- 

 tive, business and financial situation in the col- 

 leges, in order to insure that the revision of the 

 place, polity and ideals of the American college 

 and the reorganization of its administration shall 

 be in the hands of its friends and well-wishers; 

 to raise and disburse the funds and money neces- 

 sary or desirable to effectuate any of the purposes 

 or objects of the company or the advancement of 

 education within the United States. 



(e) To do all and everything necessary, suitable 

 or proper for the accomplishment of any of the 

 purposes, or the attainment of any one or more 

 of the objects herein enumerated, or which shall 

 at any time appear expedient for the benefit of 

 the company, to the same extent as natural per- 

 sons might or could do, and in any part of the 

 world, as principals, agents, contractors, trustees 

 or otherwise. 



But any progress along sueh extensive 

 and radical lines must fail if we are eon- 

 fined to the use of the present false and 

 limited standards of measuring internal 

 values within the college. An A, B, C, D 

 marking system and examinations for grade 

 promotion furnish no real units for valuing 

 the educational effect upon the individual 

 of the moral, religious, physical and intel- 

 lectual influences of the college home 

 plane ; or of the twenty-seven activities and 

 the general atmosphere of the college com- 

 munity plane; or even of the real or rela- 

 tive mental, moral or physical value to any 

 particular future citizen and the common- 

 wealth which he should serve, of scores of 



