A Cornell graduate speaks in bitter terms of college faculties. "A college faculty," he cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided one way or the other."
It seems to be generally left for graduates to voice their angry sentiments in print like the above, while the undergraduate suffers in silence, save for occasional deep mutterings of discontent. But it must be remembered there are faculties and faculties, and a Cornell faculty may greatly differ from a Harvard faculty.
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