[18] The elephant.
[19] He means pessimism, which is known to have existed before the term came into use.
[20] The only important exception to this statement is the University of Virginia. The feeling of college faculties evoked by its change from democratic to monarchical organization is probably expressed by a contemporaneous editorial. “The thirteenth of June is to be an important date in the history of the American college. On that day the democratic system of government by the entire body of professors, which has marked out the University of Virginia from almost all other institutions of learning in the country, is to come to an end. This system, in spite of all that can properly be said on the other side, has good features which it is a pity to see extinguished.”—The Nation, June 11, 1903.
It is evidently the college president who speaks in an editorial some weeks later in the same publication. “We believe that the president should be something of an autocrat in his proper domain and that faculty government would be bad government.”—The Nation, Sept. 24, 1903.
[21] J. McKeen Cattell, University Control, Science Press, 1913.
[22] The Schoolmaster’s Year Book, 1904, p. 4.
[23] Charles W. Eliot, “The University President in the American Commonwealth,” Educational Review, December, 1911.