. Review of reviews and world's work. ttempt is made to create arti-ficially this state of affairs by some faculty ac-tion or class resolution. The honor system hereis not an enactment of a legislative body, nor aprinciple applicable to a single episode in astudents life—the examination. It is a spiritpermeating the whole student body and givingfineness of fiber and vigor of tone to academiclife. It mightily reenforces the one practicalrule of discipline the university knows,—namely,that every student must conduct himself as agentleman. It is true that this system is inex-()ral)le with any for
. Review of reviews and world's work. ttempt is made to create arti-ficially this state of affairs by some faculty ac-tion or class resolution. The honor system hereis not an enactment of a legislative body, nor aprinciple applicable to a single episode in astudents life—the examination. It is a spiritpermeating the whole student body and givingfineness of fiber and vigor of tone to academiclife. It mightily reenforces the one practicalrule of discipline the university knows,—namely,that every student must conduct himself as agentleman. It is true that this system is inex-()ral)le with any form of subterfuge, fraud, orfalsity on examinations, and no mercy is shownby his fellows to the student who violates hisword of honor, but the writer has known thesame principle applied in other matters. Themost recent manifestation of this spirit is mostinteresting and promising. A student who hadbeen insulting in his demeanor to his landladywas, after a careful examination made into all 456 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF THE ACADEMIC BUILDING. the circumstances, requested by his fellow stu-dents to leave the precincts of the universityon the next train. This request had all thepower of a categorical command from which noappeal would be taken. The university has noricher asset than the spirit of manly honor inits student life. A UNIVERSITY WITHOUT A HEAD. Mention was made above of the democraticform of government. Each school, as of An-cient Languages, Mathema,tics, etc., was a sepa-rate state, and the heads of these schools in •faculty assembled formed the sole body, the faculty, elected its presidingofficer for a term of one year, and during thattime he was the executive head of the institu-tion, but with no powers save those prescribedby the board of visitors or delegated to him byhis colleagues. Before Jeffersons death, hisfellow members of the board, at a meeting whichfor some reason he did not attend, electedWilliam Wirt professor of law and
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