But largeness is not a virtue either if it leads to bureaucracy or arrogant assumption of wisdom because of size. Neither conclusion is inescapable. There are those who work more effectively in the smaller community. There are others who respond more positively to the larger. The state is better if the choice be there for individual learner or teacher to make.
Smallness is more likely to occur and persist in a private college.
And the small private college has unique potential for serving the educational needs of the individual undergraduate in a way that the larger institution can not often match. There is another possibility offered by smallness and by the individual responsibility of a private institution. That is the possibility of initiating and abandoning experimentation more quickly. We know more, of course, about the initiation of new programs at the private college for these are usually announced with great pride. Of course, no entity that exists on the good will of its supporters ever announces a failure.