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soon as he finds himself settled for life on 

 a self-perpetuating board. Low-browed, 

 thick-headed, sometimes the holder of a 

 college degree, now strutting like a pea- 

 cock, now looking wise as the owl, an in- 

 domitable fighter, he baiBes the genius and 

 the ingenuity of the ablest executive. The 

 intelligent ward boss or the politician of 

 big dimensions, no matter how crooked, is 

 not quite so bad a man on a university 

 board as the miserable little pinhead who 

 is to me what the president is to Professor 

 Cattell, " the veritable black beast in the 

 academic jungle." No logic, no array of 

 facts, no appeal to educational experts can 

 make the slightest impression upon his 

 small, thick skull. He is firm as adamant, 

 vindictive as the viper, and in constant 

 communion with the Almighty God. When 

 thrown into conflict with such a man there 

 is nothing for the president to do but to 

 hold up his hands and to pray without 

 ceasing that the Giver of all good things 

 may bountifully bestow upon him the sav- 

 ing sense of humor, without which even 

 the ablest university president must find 

 the academic world a cold and cheerless 

 place. 



The road that leads out of these deplor- 

 able conditions is perhaps a long and rocky 

 road, but we must find it and make our 

 way out to a freer air, a happier environ- 

 ment, or else the very life of the university 

 as an acropolis of culture, as the strong- 

 hold of the " great and lonely thinker," 

 as the nursery of noble and heroic souls, is 

 absolutely doomed. University boards can 

 not longer afford to ignore the faculties. 

 In all large questions of university admin- 

 istration, the faculty should have a hearing 

 and a voice. To give to the faculties the 

 control that belongs to them, to create both 

 for students and professors a happier en- 

 vironment, is, after all, the high duty of ad- 

 ministrators. I have an abiding faith in 



the outcome. To all brave souls who are 

 growing weary and faint-hearted, let me 

 commend the words of Carlyle: " It is our 

 duty to do the work that God Almighty has 

 entrusted to us, to stand up and fight for 

 it to the last breath of our lives. ' ' 



The work of establishing and administer- 

 ing a university calls for the united efforts 

 of faculty and board and alumni, who 

 should work together in mutual trust and 

 esteem for the uprearing of a real univer- 

 sity, the most potent instrument that man 

 has yet devised for his own advancement, 

 for the enrichment of his life, for the de- 

 velopment and diffusion of knowledge, and 

 for " the enlargement of the boundaries 

 of the human empire to the attainment of 

 all things possible." 



Edwin Boone Craighead 



INDIAN BEMAINS IN MAINE 



Early this year, the archeology department 

 of Phillips Academy at Andover sent an expe- 

 dition to the state of Maine to carry on an 

 exploration of various sites. By the end of 

 August the party had located and mapped 

 some hundred or more shell-heaps and village 

 sites. Forty-eight shell-heaps were found 

 within ten miles of Bar Harbor, and if the 

 circle be extended to fifteen miles, there must 

 be at least 75. Several of these were examined 

 and some hundreds of bone and stone imple- 

 ments taken therefrom. 



The coast from below Blue Hill to Bar 

 Harbor (excepting the Castine region) was 

 carefully investigated in the hopes that a " Eed 

 Paint People " cemetery might be discovered. 

 But in spite of much searching, no undis- 

 turbed site could be located, although dis- 

 turbed cemeteries were found at Blue Hill and 

 Sullivan Falls and about one hundred stone 

 objects removed therefrom. 



The largest shell-heap lay upon Boynton's 

 Point in the town of La Moine. This deposit 

 is more than 200 meters long and 20 to 30 

 meters in width. It is roughly estimated that 



