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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 or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1855. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LETTER V. THE AMERICAN COLLEGE 8Y8TEM MAINLT DEPENDENT FOR ITS SUCCESSFUL OPERATION UPON THE PERSONAL QUALITIES OP DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT OF THE MEN WHO CONDUCT IT.--INSECURITY ARISING FROM THIS CAUSE. ENUMERATION OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL OF THE MORAL QUALITIES WHiCH TIIE COLLEGE OFFICER SHOULD POSSESS. I Have spoken of certain principles of action, the observance of which on the part of those who are charged with the government of young men, I consider to be essential to the permanent success of their rule. I am about to speak of certain positive qualities of disposition and temperament, which, in their very highest manifestations, are perhaps the gift of few, but of which the possession, in a degree greater than belongs to the generality of mankind, is apparently no less essential to the certain attainment of the ends of good government. Nor in doing this am I deviating from the main purpose I have in view in this series of articles, which is to demonstrate the existence of an imperfection in our college system as at present organized, in order that I may proceed to suggest what seems to me a simple and easy remedy. I do not wish to anticipate, nor to take up things out of their natural order; yet since I have distinctly announced my ultimate design, it may not be amiss to say here, for the sake of preventing misconceptions, that what I have to propose is no great and, sweeping change, no suspicious or startling innovation. Neither the evil nor its remedy have any necessary connection whatever with the system of instruction now generally practiced in American colleges. The removal of that evil involves no derangement of that system, nor any injury to a single one of its important features. But of this, those who have patience to follow me to the end, w...
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