The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-13
EARLHAM RECOGNIZES
STUDENT GOVERNMENT;
LIMITS ENR0LLMENTS

At meeting Saturday the Earinain
board of trustees for the first Tune
gave official recognition TO stuuenl
government as a part of the collese du
ministration, limited the college en-
rollment next year to 440 Stuuenls
with a maximum of 185 freshmen anu
made reductions in the rates lot ooatu
and room to be effective next year.
Appropriations were made proViu-
ing for additional equipment LOT the
physics department, new tennis DacK-
stops and other improvements. Inc
board also approved the recommends
ito nof the finance committee that the
college publish booklet OF Earlham
views and adopted as the officlal
statement of Earlham's ideals and pol
icy a report given by an executive
subcommittee.
Discussion of student government
occupied the entire morning session
of the board. The report of the com
mittee appointed al the recent meet
ing of the executive committee was
approved 1t will be presented TO the
faculty and students and If approved
will be the basis of officially recognlz'
ed student government at Earlham
The recommendation places additional
d. responsibility upon students and pro-
-vides for organization of day students
into a self-governing body which will
function as nearly like the dorm1tory
government associations as conditions
will permit The committee whlcn
drafted the plan was composed oil
Charles NJ. Woodman representing the
board of trustees, DR.. Hurchel Coffin
representing the faculty, the two
deans, Prof. Wildman and Miss Doan
and Neal Newlin, Mabel Quigg and
Paul Lichtenfels. In approving the
report of this committee the board OF
trustees recognizes student govern
ment as a part of the college admin
istration for the first time. The deans
have until now been held responsible
tor student conduct.
Enrolment Limit $40
At the meeting of the executive
committee a few weeks ago two other
b-committees were appointed, one tC
draw up definite outline of the ad
ministrative responsibilities of college
officers, and the other to arrange in
definite form statement OF Earl
hams policies and ideals. The board
approved the report of the latter com
mittee and recommended that por
ton of it be inserted in the new cata
log as the official statement of Earl
hams policy. The report also pro
vides that in order to limit the college
enrolment to about its present mum
her of 440 the maximum number o.
freshmen admitted next year be 185
who are to be selected upon the basis
of scholarship, personality, and prob
able ability to adapt themselves to the
policies and ideals which Earlham en-
dorses.
In accepting the report of the fl
nance committee the board reduced
the charges for board and room mex
year from 1924 to $500 and made ap
preparations for new physics equip
ment and tennis back-stops. 1t alsC
approved the publication, as part o
the Diamond Jubilee program, of {
booklet of Earlham views to be USED
for publicity purposes.
The faculty for next year was con
sidered but no changes have yet beer
announced. In its recommendation:
to the faculty the board authorized
the appointment of committee Il
audit the accounts of all student or
CARNATIONS and asked for faculty co
operation in keeping Earlham entirel!
free from the present tendency toward
professionalism in college athletics,