At all times and places he is an example of soldierly devotion to duty; a champion of good causes, however unpopular; a friend of the weak and friendless; an enemy of none but evil-doers; and a wise helper of all who wish to live nobly. His work is not done, even at three score years and ten. May he stay with us long!"

The question arose during the year as to the status of professors on a sabbatical leave of absence who might remain in Ithaca, and the Committee on University Policy directed the Dean to obtain from the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees a ruling on the question. On April 5, 1907, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees transmitted to the Faculty the following resolution in reply to the interrogation from the Committee on University Policy:

"Resolved, That, while fully appreciating the spirit of loyalty and co-operation which might prompt such a professor to advise with reference to matters pertaining to his department when such advice was solicited by those remaining in charge of his department, nevertheless, it is the sense of this board that, inasmuch as the University has no right to demand service from such professor and the responsibility for the success of the work in his department rests upon those actually performing University service, such a professor may not exercise the rights and duties of a professor in residence while remaining in Ithaca under a sabbatical leave of absence."

During the year 1906-1907 the number of schools from which students were received by certificate was 175, and the number of students presenting certificates was 327. The number of schools whose students had no mark below a pass was 107, and the number of students admitted with no mark below a pass was 190. Of the 64 schools sending students having one or more marks below a pass 30 sent students having only one mark below a pass. The investigation of the 34 remaining schools sending students having more than one mark per school below a pass, resulted in withdrawing the certificate privilege from one school and warning 14 that the continuance of the certificate privilege would depend upon the standing of students admitted from said schools in 1907.

The committee recommended the following changes in the rules regarding Regents' credentials, and the same were approved by the Faculty. These changes authorize the acceptance at their face value of the certificates issued as the result of the examinations to be held by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. This action involves the abrogation of the old rule on page 54 of the register for 1906-1907:

"No other credentials, including pass cards and certificates (for exceptions see under Veterinary and Medical Colleges), issued by the Regents are accepted unless they are presented by the holder of a Regents' diploma or sixty count (old style) academic certificate."

Hitherto students who have tried entrance examinations and failed to pass them have not been entitled to the privilege of admission on school certificates or Regents' credentials. This rule has given rise to much disagreeable friction between the Registrar's office and principals of schools, and it seemed wise to the committee to modify the rule and to accept school certificates or Regents' credentials in the case of students who have tried entrance examinations and failed to pass them where such certificates or credentials show that subsequent to the failure in the subject the student has satisfactorily pursued it in regular school classes.

On June 1, 1906, the Committee on Admission by Certificate recommended to the University Faculty that the certificate privilege now extended to private schools be discontinued after September, 1908, and that no private school be granted the certificate privilege after the present date. This resolution was referred by the Faculty to the Committee on University Policy to consider and report. On December 19, 1905, the Committee on University Policy reported that the committee deemed it inexpedient to recommend to the University Faculty any change at present in the certificate privilege. When the Committee on Admission by Certificate made its recommendation it was felt that any change in the certificate privilege affected the rights of the several Colleges to prescribe their own rules for admission, rights secured to them by the statutes of the University, and it was in view of the possible infringement of such rights that the report of the Committee on Admission by Certificate was referred to the Committee on University Policy for consideration and report. In order that this point might be decided without complicating the original recommendation of the Committee on Admission by Certificate, the University Faculty referred the resolution of the Committee on Admission by Certificate back to the Committee on University Policy with the request that it report whether the adoption of the recommendation of the Committee on Admission by Certificate would infringe, in its judgment, any statutory rights of the several faculties. On March 1, 1907, the Committee on University Policy reported as follows:

"In the judgment of the Committee on University Policy the acceptance or non-acceptance of the certificates of private

schools as evidence of having satisfied entrance requirements at Cornell University is a matter of University policy and a question affecting more than one Faculty."

The report of the committee was adopted, and on March 8, 1907, the University Faculty voted to refer back to the Committee on Admission by Certificate the question of continuing the certificate privilege now extended to private schools, for further consideration.

The Committee on Admission by Certificate has discussed the matter informally, and has deemed it unwise to urge the passage of its original resolution at the present time on account of a movement in various parts of the country for the creation of a commission or board for accrediting schools. This movement found expression at a meeting of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland held in Philadelphia on December 1, 1906, when was considered a resolution adopted at the Williamstown conference on college entrance qualifications held August 3 and 4, 1906. This conference was attended by delegates from the following organizations: The New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, The Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, The Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States, The North Carolina Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the College Entrance Examination Board. The resolution above referred to is:

"Resolved, That this conference recommend to the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland and to the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States, that each consider the desirability of organizing a college entrance certificate board or a commission for accrediting schools."

In view of this action and of the existence in other sections of the country of organizations similar to the one proposed, such as the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, and the committee on accredited schools of the North-Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, it seemed wise to the Committee on Admission by Certificate to await the action of the committee of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Sohools of the Middle States and Maryland. In case such a board or commission for accrediting schools should be established in this section of the country it might be expedient for Cornell University to continue its present system of admission by certificate with such modifications as the action of the above association might render desirable or necessary.

2. STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

(Cp. President's Reports for 1899-1900, pp. 14-15 and 72-74; 19001901, pp. x-xi; 1901-1902, pp. ix-xi; 1902-1903, pp. ix-xi ; 1903-1904, pp. 11-13; 1904-1905, pp. ix-xii; 1905-1906, pp. x-xi.) During the current year the business of the Committee on Student Organizations has consisted chiefly in the determination of leaves of absence to members of the athletic teams and of other student organizations such as fraternities, etc. No important changes have been made this year in the rules governing Student Organizations, but the rules made last year were incorporated in the printed rules with a few verbal changes and the revised rules were submitted to the Faculty and adopted on October 5, 1906. For convenience of reference these rules are here printed.

RULES GOVERNING STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

I. Student Organizations in General. No person shall represent the University on any student organization, or individually, either at home or abroad:

a. If he is not a regularly registered student of the University; b. If he has been removed for one or more terms from the University for failure in work or for breach of discipline and has not since re-instatement completed one full academic term;

c. If he is on probation, that is, if, by vote of his Faculty, he is duly notified that a repetition of failure in work or neglect of duty will result in his exclusion from the University.

[Note.-Probation is regarded as but one step short of exclusion, and is to be distinguished from advice, warning, admonition or censure. Probation terminates at the end of the term for which notification is given unless it be terminated earlier by vote of the Faculty concerned.]

II. Intercollegiate Athletic Contests in General.-No person shall represent the University in any intercollegiate athletic contest either at home or abroad:

a. If he does not conform to the above rules;

b. If he has previously represented this University, or any other college or university, or both, in that branch for four years in the aggregate;

[Note. In construing Rule II, b, all intercollegiate athletic sports are grouped as one branch, but for special rule governing four main branches of sport see Rule IV, b, c.]

C. If he receives or has ever received any remuneration or consideration of any sort for his services in any branch, as performer, player, coach, or otherwise, apart from such necessary expenses in excess of ordinary expenses as are actually incurred by him as a member of a college team, or of a permanent amateur organization in connection with occasional amateur contests;

d. If he is a member of the staff of instruction of the Univerversity, even if he be registered as a candidate for a degree;

e. Nor shall he take part in such contests or train for any team, if he does not secure at the beginning of each season a special certificate of satisfactory physical condition from the Physical Director. Such certificate may be cancelled at any time in case the Director decides that the continuation of training is likely to operate to the physical injury of such person.

III. 'Varsity Athletic Teams.-No student shall represent the University on a 'varsity athletic team :

a. If he does not conform to the above rules;

b. If he has not been in residence at the University for one year.

[Note. In construing Rule III, b, contests held in a summer vacation are to be regarded as belonging to the preceding academic year. No one shall be allowed to represent different institutions in the same branch of sport in consecutive seasons of his own academic course.]

IV. 'Varsity Rowing, Baseball, Football, and Track Teams.— No student shall represent the University on a 'varsity athletic team in rowing, baseball, football or track athletics :

a. If he does not conform to the above rules;

b. For more than three years, including therein the years in which he has represented another college or university in any of those four sports;

C.

After the class with which he entered this or another institution has graduated, unless he has been out of residence for one or more terms for reasons other than failure in work or breach of discipline.

[Note. In applying Rule IV, b and c, only those years are to be counted which are regarded as an equivalent of the college years in this University.]

V. Responsibility of Officials.-No manager, captain or other responsible official of any student organization, shall permit a person