Now if I should surrender it into your hands, and you, from any cause, should manage the trust unfaithfully or unskillfully, I should necessarily be held accountable.

I could never shift the responsibility upon you.

Now it plainly is not just or right that one party should hold the power, and another be held accountable for its exercise.

It is clear, therefore, in every view of the subject, that I should retain the management of this school in my own hands.

Are you not satisfied that it is ?" The scholars universally answered "Yes, sir." They seemed satisfied, and doubtless were.
It was then stated to them that the object in asking them to vote was, in some cases, to obtain an expression of their opinion or their wishes in order to help _me_ decide, and only in those cases where it was expressly stated did I mean to give the final decision to them.
Still, however, if cases are often referred to them, the feeling will gradually creep in that the school is managed on republican principles, as they call it, and they will, unless this point is specially guarded, gradually lose that spirit of entire and cordial subordination so necessary for the success of any school.