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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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GUIDANCE OP STUDENTS 189 a special supervisor. He himself tried to attend as many games and social gatherings as possible, but he could only faintly keep in touch with student life. So, too, discipline required a man acquainted with student psychology, in the mass* and in the individual. Thomas Arkle Clark, head of the department of rhetoric, who had just filled the acting deanship of the college of literature and arts, and who was popular with the students, had in the spring of 1901 assisted Draper in two trying cases—one concerning a member of the ball team, one the son of a man of political importance; and that June he was given the first place of the sort in the country. He at once had instituted a system of reports on the scholarship and absences of each student; he began to call upon sick students and to assist the needy to find work; he began to study the then acute problems of hazing, dishonesty, and graft in undergraduate organizations and activities, unwholesome fraternity conditions, excessive drinking and gambling, and rowdyism in the celebration of athletic successes. The force of the office lay not so much in its rules and regulations as in the reserve strength that was built up in innumerable personal interviews and acts of kindly help, while it derived much from Clark's remarkable memory for names, faces, and facts, his unusual insight into the undergraduate mind, his stubborn persistence, and his generous fund of optimism and good humor. The long agitation for better care of the women bore fruit when in 1897 Draper saw to the establishment of a woman's department, the dean of which^ was to be the advisor, disciplinarian, and protector of all women students. Miss Violet D. Jayne, educated at Michigan, Minnesota, and abroad, who had been in charge of English departments in State normal schools in Wisconsin and Cali-
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