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...these words Dr. Kirkpatrick, who is a graduate of Yale, sums up the opinions which he has gathered by an intensive study of Harvard government which will shortly be printed by the Yale University Press in New Haven...
...report which Dr. Kirkpatrick has drawn up composes what is probably the most thorough treatise on this subject ever written. Dr. Kirkpatrick is by no means antagonistic to the management of the University, but he points out many respects in which he believes its government might be improved. He stresses most the difference between a faculty government and that of a non-resident corporation such as is now in force, and declares that this system might be improved by faculty control...
...which he says: "There is a feeling that the President is an autocrat; yet he has no power to decide anything or to give orders to anybody in the institution. Over the professors or the faculty he has no authority of any kind." In spite of this, however, Dr. Kirkpatrick believes that the government is "a benevolent despotism" with the president as the despot. "A practical control over the appointing and administrative boards of the faculties", he says, "goes far toward securing for the officer who possesses it, the rule over the institution...
...support of this theory of the lack of irritation. Dr. Kirkpatrick quotes several members of the faculty as characterizing the system under the present executive as "ideal". "Dean Pound", he adds, "says there is a good deal of irritation beneath the surface but thinks that the present form of government will continue indefinites...
This "content" and general smooth ness in the University government. D. Kirkpatrick feels, has done much towards giving an impression concerning its organization which is contrary to fact. "The close personal and social relation of the faculty people with their administrative superiors", he says, "undoubtedly constitutes a means of communication and influence which makes possible the conditions which President Lowell describes as 'table serving' by the governors. This close relation, together with the high personal character of the president and his associated administrative staff, causes the unreflecting young instructor to describe the government of Harvard as 'democratic...