Hepburn, Andrew D.
You asked me this morning about my view
s on the condition of
the
Univ. I cannot be free. I think that
too much stress is laid upon mere political considerations. That is not the sole
nor chief cause of our present condition. The public, I think, is dissatisfied
with our system, mode of administration, discipline, &c. An entirely
new order of things is demanded to meet the new demands of the times, and new
men to inaugurate & carry out the new system. I am convinced that if
the great changes in our American educational system are disregarded by the
Trustees, & we adhere to old methods system
&c, that we shall be outstripped by every college which is wise enough
to conform to the present condition of things. The large majority of our
Trustees, I fear, never take such matters into consideration, &
some have shown themselves incompetent to understand the importance &
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necessity of the reforms which wise
& far seeing friends of education have proposed to them.