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The Role of the Presidents in the American Colleges of the Colonial Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

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The vast complexity of a modern American university and the manifold duties of the man who serves as its executive are well known. Administration has become a more demanding operation than it was when James Madison, an Episcopal bishop and late eighteenth-century president of the College of William and Mary, described the vicissitudes of the College's early days: “The first plan of our College was imperfect. It consisted of a President, whose only business was to superintend….” Obviously, superintending is not what it used to be.

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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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