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Letters on College Government and the Evils Inseparable from the American College System in Its Present Form - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1855 Excerpt: ... LETTERS ON COLLEGE GOVERNMENT. LETTER I. STRICTURES OP THE MOBILE REGISTER, ON CERTAIN REGULATIONS AND USAGES EXISTING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, CONSIDERED. EXAMINATION OF THE LAW KNOWN AS "THE EXCULPATION LAW." To The Editor Of The Mobile Register,--Sir:--In the Camden Republic of June 24th, I find some remarks credited to the Register, on a few of the features of college government recognized in the University of Alabama. Your strictures, which accord very well with observations I have often heard from intelligent gentlemen in private conversation, indicate that there is a defect or a difficulty somewhere in the American college system, to which it is desirable that the attention of the whole community should be understandingly drawn. I say a defect in the system, because nearly all the colleges in the United States are founded upon the same system, and the features to which exception has been taken, are features which have been adopted in each, without change, from those which are older. The visitation of the rooms of students, by members of the Faculty, which is spoken of in your article as "the plan pursued by tlie Faculty of our University" is practiced in every college in the country, in which students reside in the college buildings--that is to say, in every one in which it is practicable. If it is a bad plan, the extent of its prevalence does not, I freely admit, make it any better; but the fact that it is so prevalent, may not be known to all the readers of the Register; and for this reason an inference to our especial prejudice (which I am sure you did not design) may be drawn from your remarks. Again, "the plan adopted at our University, of putting the student upon his voir dire" is not peculiar to us, as might be inferred by a cursory reade...
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