I think the most scrupulous statesman would not object to securing influence by conferring office in such a case.

If difficulties arise from the operation of such a measure, the plan can easily be modified to avoid or correct them.

If it is successful, it may be continued, and the principle may be extended, so as in the end to affect very considerably all the arrangements and the whole management of the school.
Or, let us imagine the following scene to have been the commencement of the introduction of the principle of limited self-government into a school.
The preceptor of an academy was sitting at his desk, at the close of school, while the pupils were putting up their books and leaving the room.

A boy came in with angry looks, and, with his hat in his hands bruised and dusty, advanced to the master's desk, and complained that one of his companions had thrown down his hat upon the floor, and had almost spoiled it.
The teacher looked calmly at the mischief, and then asked how it happened.
"I don't know, sir.

I hung it on my nail, and he pulled it down." "I wish you would ask him to come here," said the teacher.