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 140 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO President, sitting at the end of a sofa, looked up at me and in a flash said " That's right. It should be the Senate." And the Senate was born then and there. The Senate was thus incorporated into the President's plan. The Senate was to have purview of matters of education, the Council of matters of administration. All actions of the faculties relating to education were to be "subject to review and reversal by the Senate, until the Board of Trustees decides otherwise." The rulings of the Council in matters of administration were to be "binding in relation to any faculty, subject to the final decision of the Trustees." The Senate was to be composed of the President, the University Recorder, who acted as Secretary, all Head Professors, and the University Librarian. The Council consisted of the President, the Examiner, the Recorder, the Registrar, all Deans, and all Directors. To conclude this review of the internal constitution of the University, it should be said that for the purpose of assisting the Directors of the general Divisions and facilitating the work of administration general Administrative Boards were to be appointed, consisting of five members, in addition to the members ex officio. There remain to be considered two of the most important and most interesting features of President Harper's educational plan. These two features were among those which he termed educational experiments. It may probably be truthfully said that he regarded them as the central and essential features of the new University. He believed in them with his whole heart and should be permitted to present them in his own words. He made the first public presentation of them, after the publication of Official Bulletin No. i, in the address at Birmingham already mentioned. But a year later, only a few months before the University opened, he prepared a better statement of them. This statement was intended to be a part of his first Annual Report to the Board of Trustees. For some unknown reason, probably because he was overwhelmed with the other duties of those busy months, this report was never finished. It was therefore not submitted to the Board of Trustees and has never been published. In the outline there were about a hundred points to be taken up, but on very few of these points, not more than half a dozen indeed, did he