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...representative of college sentiment. The president of the college sentiment. The president of the college is the president of the senate. The right of absolute veto which he exercises also as president of the faculty is retained, otherwise his duties and powers resemble those of presiding officers in general. Meetings of the senate are held once each month; while the president, or any two members, may call an extra meeting at any time...
...means sharply defined as yet. Broadly stated, however, in substantially President Seelye's words, the faculty have to do, or should have to do, simply with the literary life of the college; while to the students, through the senate, is left the control of all matters in general, other than literary, with which the undergraduates have to deal directly. Both in theory and by precedent athletic questions fall to the province of the senate. This, indeed, is perhaps the only precedent which has been at all firmly established thus far. Cases of expulsion and suspension are judged by the senate...
Perhaps once or twice there has been some feeling that the faculty have decided cases which should justly have come before the senate; these, however, have been unimportant, and in general it may be affirmed that the theoretical relations between the faculty and the senate have been preserved. Unlike every similar body, probably, the senate has the sympathy of the faculty to a greater degree than that of the students. The new system of government, of which the senate is merely a phase, was at first as thoroughly misunderstood at Amherst as it has been since throughout the college world...
...happens, the real strength of the senate remains for the future to test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers...
...then is this danger to be met? No general rule can be given. Each son must decide for himself in accordance with the peculiarities of his own especial parent. However, let not the son swerve an instant from his duty; knowing the true course, let him follow it, remembering that the persistent elbowing of the little wave gradually crowds aside the giant cliff. Let him complain unceasingly, let him be alternately sulky, gloomy, and petulant, let him if necessary even resort to desperate dissipation,- and success is almost inevitable...