Should any practising administrator have chanced to pick up this volume, and pesevered this far, may have marvelled that so many pages could be written, all undeniably about administration in one or other of its senses, and none of them be about his own daily woek-the reading and writing of correspondence, minutes, and memoranda, the use of the telephone,attendance at meetings, interviews, informal discussions with colleagues, the searching for needed information, the calculating and tabulating, and so on: the imagined cine-record of an administrator's day.