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Show were everywhere, und they wen the ali important things. The friendly relation rela-tion between the teachers and their pupils pu-pils was secou-lar'y and a matter, in comparison, oi'Yttle thought. It fell to my )ot almost immediately after entering upon my office as atmoi to form the acquaintance of all the students stu-dents in the institution. I knew every student by face and by name; and not only this, bnt in the case of a large proportion pro-portion of them 1 had more or less 1 personal knowledge. With tiiose who were in the classes which I taught I came into friendly relations. I learned to know them as I had known my classmates, class-mates, and formed with many of them friendships which have been life long in their continuance. These relations into which I was hap pily brought with the yonng men whom I met as an instructor revealed much to me as to the wisest and best methods of administration. My observation of the ; weaknesses and unseasonablenws of tha old methods, and of the many failures '. in their working, added much of new 1 light from another side. I became a be j i liever in a new system, and was fully I I ready to abandon the old one. President Timothy Dwight in Forum. I Collejro Adiuliiisiratlon Old and Tew. The old idea of college administration which characterized the last century had been modified iu some respects, indeed, i before the middle of the present, century, but in the period of 1850 and 1S53 much of what was fundamental to that idea still remained. The attitude of college authorities whs very largely that of a police force. Tho expectation of college faculties seemed tj be that offenses I would come, and would come with great frequency. Students, as a body, were too often treated with sn-pWot. Suppression of disorder seemed to till th thoughts of the governors, rat her tha the cultivation of an orderly spirit. Al was governmental. Rules and law. |