Buddleja Asiatica Research Articles

The Administrative Organization of a Small College

O RGANIZATION appears to be applicable only to large enterprises-large businesses, large industries, large universities. The small enterprises seem either not to need organization or automatically to organize themselves. This is particularly true of small colleges. Here, the organization, such as it is, has grown by force of circumstances from the time when the president did everything but the teaching-and some of that. Why the organizational scheme is what it is, may be explained by the succession of crises through which the college has passed. It is not usually founded upon any definite principle, and is only changed under great pressure, and then, like cutting off the dog's tail, a little at a time so that it will not hurt so much. In venturing to present the scheme of administrative organization of Colgate University, I do so because it has been found to be smooth-running and efficient, and quite different, in many respects, from that ordinarily employed in a small college. That this same plan is applicable to every small college, I do not presume to say, but it has been successful under the curricular and instructional conditions at Colgate. These conditionsknown as the Colgate Plan-have been previously described in various publications and are not repeated here. Colgate University, founded in I 8 i9, is now an institution with a student body limited to one thousand men. It is situated in a village of less than two thousand inhabitants, among the hills of central New York. It owes its existence to the Baptists, and while still valuing and clinging to these traditions, it is operating under a

The activation of renin by blood

1. (1) A useful method for perfusing a dog's tail is described. 2. (2) Purified renin, which produces a marked rise in arterial pressure when injected into intact animals, has little or no constrictor action on the vessels of a dog's tail perfused with Ringer-Lockeacacia solution. The addition of small amounts of whole blood, plasma, laked erythrocytes, or plasma colloids to purified renin causes intense vasoconstriction in the perfused tail. 3. (3) Partially purified extracts of kidneys contain heart-stable and dialyzable substances that cause constriction of the blood vessels of the dog's tail. 4. (4) The injection of sufficient cocaine to make the blood vessels nonresponsive to tyramine does not inhibit the action of renin-plasma mixture. 5. (5) Plasma from dogs after bilateral nephrectomy and hypophysectomy activates renin. 6. (6) Experimental hypertension produced in dogs by clamping the renal arteries or applying cellophane to the renal parenchyma appears to increase the ability of plasma to activate renin. There is no strict parallelism between the mean arterial pressure of the hypertensive animals and activator content of the blood.

SECTARIANISM IN MEDICINE—DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF EXISTING MEDICAL SECTS.Read before the Practitioners' Club, Nov. 26, 1894.

The three sects recognized in the community in which we live are the regular profession, the homeopathic and eclectic. In denoting the regular profession as a sect, I am conscious of a violation of the meaning of the term, sect. A sect is a body of persons who have separated from others in view of some special doctrine or doctrines. Now, the regular profession has no separate doctrine or doctrines, nor has it separated from anybody. When you cut off a piece of a dog's tail, you do not cut off the dog from the tail, but the tail from the dog. For it is a fact well recognized by the profoundest experts of natural history, that it is the dog who wags the tail, and not the tail who wags the dog. The regular profession has been stigmatized by certain apostates as the old school. The spirit is the