The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-29

ana renew a right spirit within him" The sEnaesments for the govern ment of the UnivaFaity," drafted also by JeffeFaon and lagallzed by the ae- ton of the Board of VisitoFa, outline system of self-g0vernment from which has arisen the famous Honor System. This system is supposed uy some to be only a mode Of holding ex- aminationa In, reality it is q spirit which pervadea the entire lnnfstutsons "exertins itself upon all the inteTFola- tiens of professors and etuaenss sno .e its condemnatery dIeapprovaL"
 RriReeton.
 Other institutions have followed in the way marked ouf by ThorAas Jef- feraon for the University of Virginia Some. relying too much upon the machinery of government and possess ing too little of the spirit ef honor. have returned to the autoeracy ot the 1 president with faculty police Of Honor system spirit of life. inform | ing and directing an academic demo- | cracy, Princeton University is con spicuous. President Woodrow Wilson
 .'Ths system was adopted at Prince l ton during the session of 1se2-s. adopt | ed by the authorities of the University | | The circumstances iElustrated in most interesting way the constitution and life of the place. student lie | has there been long dominated by the | opinion, what may be very correctly called the public opinIon. of the under graduate body. In which each Of the 1 four classes has always had . very complete and efficient organization under otIicevs 6g It's own. and has ai- ways served as an organ ot opinion | and action The senior class is looked | to for guidance. Its leading spirits are the governors of the little com munity. Members of the classes of | been the feeling and conviction or every thoughtful student about cheat | ing in examinations. and being or l a temper to remove all reproach from the Alma Mater they loved, took steps. | by mass meeting. to include that mat
 ter also within the scope of kheir self.
 government: and the authorities oi the university gladly put 1t in their hands, with a confidence of the result which has been abundantiy justified by the history of the years which, have since elapsed Cheating examinations have been utterly stamped out.
 Such an organic feeling, and sucn habits of organic action. among the
 students seem to be e condition pre-
 cedent to the success of the honoS system. At Princeton class organiza- ton and self-government by means oi 1t seem to underlie the whole practice
 as its necessary foundation.
 Once established, the system itsell
 uuickens the community feeling and
 tends to increase not only the sense oi
 organic responsibility but also th'
 capacity for self-government and thu
 range 1t is likely to give itself. It i'
 noteworthy how such self-regulatioE
 when once undertaken, begins to affec
 all other things. how the sense -o
 maturity and of manly responsibilit,
 1t at once extended to other particular
 of action. The result at Princeton, ,tS
 speak only of 1.-the place know best
 has been to change the whole relation
 of Faculty and students; to make thu undergraduates in all matters relating to discipline mare candid. s mor' , straigh tforward. as well as more self
 critical, and to extend. insensibly bu
 bery steadily, the catalogue of things
 regulated by opinion. not by author lty. Teachers. and students now dea
 with each other with mutual respect
 and confidence. and the faculty is a'
 anxious as the students to put NeverJ
 possible matter Of conduct under th'
 watcbful supervision, not of officers ol
 discipline but of the leading spirits
 of the upper classes, with whom lie:
 the making of opinion. This must bS
 the effect everywhere; but student
 opinion can not make these eonauestl