Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Senate Committee for Establishing UI Constitution (1915) [PAGE 17]

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s possibilities of tl I on aittee, A.-, lingly il v II Btudj to tlu tnoi intimate, lot rn oi nidation tut in as furnishing in its If a reasonablj well limit I topi< ration of which could not I arried out a welJ bi ni tl. In melu >n, tl. members of the I >mmitt< would rl \\ h D t \pr ^s to t!i Senate their sin i appi tion of the idei tion \\ hich thej I ave been treated durin tl: \ s tl * i\. Whil. the deliberations have extend I r what might - n an un mabl\ long peri I tim< the I unmitt h a not I i I by criticisms for its delay or b\ any failure to p] j of the task it has undertaken, Individual m mbers hav< re] atedly r ived expi ssions of encouragement and appr tion time and ener y that they were devoting to the problems of th» up. Furthermore, it is of course true that th< [m stions involv ?>eai upon thoe relations in which every member of the University staff is mo-' intimately eom rued. There is no individual in the entir »\i{ wh loes not wish to - - me details in the plan of organi ion fL\ I in a lane with his own ideas, and most of us are so sin< in our advo y individual m isur - or -neral methods of oi anization t t \\ sometimes f 1 as if the sristence of the University v uld « be imperiled if certain particular schemes of organization were not adoj There is. I am sure, no member of the Committee who has lot h I oc sion many tinu s during its work to discuss general qu stions oi ini' sity organization with those with whom he has been in nion or — intimate personal relation-. Yet I am confident that such disissinn has nevei >ne to the point of exercising any pn ssure whatei upon tl. I ommitl r th individual. More than that, those whos h : in,! 5 U ssful e\| rien • as t hers or administratis fh in tl University might be said to have qualified them to speak coi m ing its pi blems with greater p iti\ aess than could be granted I < »th ha\ I n of all the most considerate in recogni ing tlu ulties winch nfronted the Committee and in refrainin rem ai sion of opinion in a way calculated to influence unduly tin position or- virus of any member i)( the Committee, The members tl ( nraitt had in mind Bomewhat at least (his consideration on th< part I their - oll^i s and sought to avoid the embarrassments whid might >me from n neral discussion of phraseology that had not been finally j»ro\ I b) th Committee; for when the preliminary draft of tl institution had b n prepared and printed the} decide I to 1 Id it BH a private cl ument not open t > public circulation or discussion, < < i, to pri imination outside the membership of the ( mnnitb mtil its final i m should \u\\ been decided upon. \ o (,(„• j ii/. s more fully than the members of th * mmitt«

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