Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV OF WHAT DEPARTMENTS DOES THE COLLEGE CONSIST? We must next consider whether all the forces and departments of the colleges have heretofore been properly differentiated, studied and organized, and whether each and all are doing their full part to effectuate the objects of the institution and of its course. For practical purposes the college activities may be roughly divided into six great departments or classes: (a) finances, (6) instruction or pedagogy, (c) administration, (d) the executive, (e) the trustees or board of control, under whatever name, and (/) the student life, or that portion (about ninety per cent) of the undergraduates' time not spent in recitations, lectures or other personal contact with their instructors. The student life must be further subdivided into the college community life and the college home or family life. (o) The financial department is often smoothly run by experts who are not pedagogues, and is out of sight and therefore out of mind, except in the treasurer's annual report. It will not require much attention in this discussion. Its chief lesson to us is that it is the only department whose cleavage from the others is sharp and distinct. It is successful largely because no other department feels warranted to interfere in its affairs. Itsduties and limitations are well denned and respected, and its results, if it is on a real business basis, are correspondingly satisfactory. There should be no difficulty in having a perfect financial system in any college if the finances are under the charge of a well-trained business man. The bookkeeping problems are, up to the present time, of the simplest nature, mere cash accounts with no cost accounting or other intricate questions. Hence it is nothing to boast of if the books are well... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.