Government Of Students

UinJer this headiugthe Detroit Journal bas the following sensible article : "The experiment wlnch is about to be tried in the Case school of applied sciences at Cleveland is one tliat will be watehed witli a grcat deal of interest by observant edueators. The f..culty of this lostttulion lias dlrected its students to mnke. code of niks for their own government. The senior, junior and sophomore classes are each to elect two inembers of a board of governmcnt and the freshman c'ass one, and the presidenta of the class associations will be offlcers of the board. The entlre governinent of the student cornmunity will be intrusted to this board. The tlieory on which this plan is founded is the saine that governed the conduct of the famous Dr. Arnold, head master of Rugby school, England, and in some degree the conduct of the late Dr. Benjamin F. Cocker, professor of moral and mental philosophy in Michigan universlty, In their relations with students. Dr. Cocker used to say to every fresh class that came into bis classroom: "I am not a taskmaster. Youare now old enough and have had enough expeiïence in university life to judge for yourselves as to whetUer you should pay much or little attention to the studies you take up with me. I shall exact no penalties, but 6hall leavo it to the good judgment of individual students asto whether we all, or only a few of us, devote ourselves carnestly and industriously to the work of this morning honr." The old studenta of tlie university will attest that there was very seldom any lack of industry oreamestnessamoug Dr. Cocker's classes ; that, In fact, sonie of the most tliorongh work done in the student community vvas done in thoso studies under Dr. Cocker, where the responsibillty was thrust wholly upon the etudents. The principie was the same as is now put into practice In the Case school. It is putting students upon tbeir honor ; it Is trustlng thcmwitli that degree of responsibility which is especially prized by youth and youug inanhood ; it is, In effeot, crediting them with a dlgnity which they cherish and a confidence they are seldom likely to betray. The average ago of the pupils in the Case school corresponda, we understand, with the average :ge In most of our colleges. Il this plan, then, should work raceeufnlly there it is more than likely to be adopted by some of our, most progressivc colleircs. We predict thatit will work suctessfully, for wliile young peopl of the :ik' :""' oondltlon of these students chafe under espionage and arbitrary exeicise of authority, they have been found to move in a body, whatever individual inclination inay bc, In obedience to the rules of coircct conduct when the rt spoiiMliility for their government was vertid tornially In themselves. )oiil)tlegs tlils conditidii luis ils lirnit:itmns, and they are found In the governinent of isolated individuáis. With a Htiident community, however, much may be trusted to e?prlt de corps.