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Caption: Booklet - UI Senate Committee for Establishing UI Constitution (1915)
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20 Hi >RICAL i \'i MI r authority and responsibility and contribute to efficienc of adrnini ration without loss of proper checks and balances. A fai i the I tiittee found ii p rihle the fundamental problems lur b in or] '1 < rather than the details which will naturally and aec< trily come? i • in nr m with the application of the broader principl . I" ' final i pv of (!)«' constitution first presented herewith diff fi tl. rlier drafl most distinctly in the elimination of many details and in I emphasis upon th< general principles of administration. While one would naturally attribute to the Committe< bi in the point of view taken on university questions and would *i ii mem bers to assume the attitude of teachers rather than i Imini I am confident that ao such charge will hold for the final \ .. Thin abership of the Committee represented experience in a \ of institutions and administrative positions and the ex jutn point view was instantly presented and emphasized. Individual members Ivo< stron ly and vigorously the rights of the general public, t! duties l of th state institution to its founders and supporters, and tin res] QSibilities for a development adapted to the needs of the Stal . which ai r mably laid on the institution by virtue of its establish] t i 1 rapport. . It was the original intention of the Committ to study those relaI to other elements in the organization of the State which touch tin i itutioii intimately at many points, sometim J with a d inite and ] I influence that is immediate in its effect and pronoun* I in its cl in other instances with a pressure that is more subtle and ntly more distant but actually very real and powerful. In tin inal nopsis which was prepared before the formulation of tin lividual paragraphs in the document a definite place wa ussicrned t rel >ns with the Board of Trustees, the legislature, th alumni, th I pi f th State at lar \ and with other organi d instrun lit: g tl I nee rily intimate and important parts to pla\ in th In mal problems of the State, namely, the secondary sell »ls. r itional ii titutions of higher pade, and the stato department oi in ition, Nor W re the more distant relations foi often, such < c 'j' ther . ttc universities or privately endowed institutions of learriiii well as the national government, especially in the Bui m In tion and the proposed national university It bt uue evident ll thai B I nprehei ive a pr« O mi was beyond the pow th: i U and u hile ome port ion of it m ht have h n di > u Was III f that tinN di .en ion would not he regard I i\ l u \K\ mie hid of the question, while at the same tune nn\ nun ' eousideration of the field would have i >Ht| mod till furtl r th pj lion oi* this i p<»i! and would ha\. AAn\ \o \\\ \r \\
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