plinary committee. Since Eaton was also the senior professor of the
Seminary, no conflict developed as in Taylor’s time, concerning his
authority over students in that department, and in 1861 its own
instructors took responsibility for their conduct. Though the faculty
was disinclined at first to assist the President in what had heretofore
been a function of his office, members did sit on the disciplinary
committee until Lucien M. Osborn, Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy, took over its duties in 1865. Two years later,
however, the faculty relieved him of the disagreeable task.
The routine administrative chores requiring attention to detail, per