ut a peril that has been recognized and has been
met with at least some degree of success.

The student organizations, fraternities, and clubs, which have
multiplied to so remarkable a degree, are perhaps the first and most
important student reaction. Many if not most of these organizations have
some connection with individual Faculty members, either through alumni
on the Faculty or through honorary members, and this forms a basis at
least for some extra class-room relationship. Sometimes, on occasion, a
certain restraint on the part of the Faculty becomes inevitable, and the
establishment of a Committee on Student Affairs, originally a committee
on "non-athletic" relations, created some fifteen years ago, has
resulted. This committee has accomplished much towards directing student
activities into proper and worthwhile channels, though the ghost of the
classic charge of unwelcome paternalism arises occasionally. The only
answer necessary is the evident improvement in the general standards of
all student organizations and the mere fact that they have, for the most
part, continued to exist through several student generations; no little
accomplishment in itself, when one remembers the almost automatic rise
and fall of these societies in the early days.

If the University and particularly the Faculty has been concerned with
these problems, incident upon the University's growth, so have the
students themselves. They have seen the necessity for constructive
effort and have established such agencies as the Student Council and the
Inter-fraternity Council among the men, and the corresponding Judiciary
Council and Pan-Hellenic Association among the women. Above all, the
University has profited by the two great organizations which have been
the most effective expression of student life and ideals,--the Michigan
Union and the Women's League.

While the fundamental control of the student body rests, as it always
has, with the Faculty, the students have almost always shown themselves
ready and able to deal with questions of a certain type more promptly
and effectively than the Faculty. This is evident by the good record of
the Student Council since its organization in 1905. The members of this
body are elected during the last half of their Junior or the beginning
of their Senior year, and are usually the strongest men in their
classes, though not necessarily the most popular or the best students.
Most of the Council's work has had