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New HAVEN, Conn., MARCH 11, 1897.
THE FOUR YEAR PETITION.
It is a very large question that has
been raised by the undergraduate peti-
tion for a lengthening of the Scientific
School course. It is probably easier to
see the arguments for this change than
to realize the force of circumstances
and even theory against it: It has a
reasonable sound that Yale, who has
stood so stoutly for conservative prin-
ciples of education, for the safe build-
ing of the foundations, before the prac-
tical specialty has been attempted,
should make her Scientific School
course altogether consistent with the
spirit of the college.
It is, of course, true, that an educa-
tion is more thorough in four years
than in three, and it seems to be gen-
erally admitted that in the principal
courses of the School the fourth year
is necessary for the completion of the
training and is either taken in gradu-
ate work or is to be wrung out of prac-
tical life afterward. Such a magnificent
example of methods of scientific edu-
cation as that offered by the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology throws its
weight of influence for the change.
It is also perfectly easy to see with
what force the undergraduate mind is
moved and the graduate mind, _ too,
when the thought of perfect harmony
with the Academic Department in all
class and University affairs is pos-
sible. It would add undoubtedly great-
ly to the already strong esprit de corps
of Yale
It is perhaps unnecessary to go into
the other side of the question. Men in
power know more about this than any
outsiders can. It is something, that the
School on its present system is so emi-
nently successful. There is no denying
this fact. The burden of proof rests
with those who desire this change. It is
also pertinent to remark that the ten- —
dency in the educational world now is
toward an abbreviation of the period
of general training. Harvard’s experi-
ment in this line and the opportunity at
Columbia to make a year in one of the
professional schools count in securing
the B. A. degree, and other similar ef-
forts, indicate that there is a very
strong pressure from one source or an-
other for the shorter period for general]
training.
It must also not be forgoten that the
Scientific School has recently raised its
requirements so that it takes practical-
ly a year more of preparation to enter
it. This connects with the preceding
point.
This discussion does not touch the
enormous practical difficulties in the
way of change, and yet it does not
seem wise to consider this too much at
present. If it is for the best interest of
the School tohavea four year’s course,
the stand, of course, should be boldly
taken for it now with faith and zeal in
the securing of means. There is no
question that if such a step should be
taken, the friends of the Scientific
School would rally to its assistance. It
has a magnificent record and a great
prestige.
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THE ** LIT’? AND COURANT.
Why don’t the Yale Literary Maga-
zine and the Yale Courant join fortunes
and forces? This seems the only sat-
isfactory way out of the difficulties of
interference and overlapping that in-
crease as the papers develop. Some-
thing more or less radical should be
done. You can not put the Courant
back where it was. It would then
surely die. It was tolerated in the old-
en days, (of course in some of the olden
days it was very fine) because it was
here, having been here before, and pre-
sumably with some reason for being.
This last year it cut those holy moor-
ings of tradition, by which frail bark
of doubtful utility are held safély
here, and actually began to sail for it-
self. It has not sailed in a manner
pleasing to the Chap Book—Alack and
Alas!—but it has sailed and been a
visibie, moving and often most grace-
ful and pleasing object on the horizon
of college letters and life. Now it must
keep going. Shall it continue to tack
across the track of the “Lit,” but ever
keeping near the course of the venera-
ble one, and the more so as the ‘‘Lit”
runs up topsail and shakes out her spin-
naker now and then?
Or shall it be off to another point of
compass, sailing by other charts? But
where else and how else? The more like
the ‘‘Lit,’’ the better; the more like the
“Lit,’? the worse. The more “‘Lit’”’ editors
on the Courant Board, the better; the
more “Lit’’ editors on the Courant
Board, the worse. f
Why don’t they sail together, and
stop cutting across each other’s bows?
Make one swift and graceful cruiser
(if we may shift figures a bit), instead
of one battleship and one torpedo boat.
Keep a good band on the deck, colors
all flying and brass of a navy hue, but
keep up the fire from the ten-inch
guns.
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YALE STUDENTS AND A PRIZE
FIGHT.
The far-fetched extravaganza of a
letter of well wishing to a prize fighter,
signed by a considerable company of
students bearing some of the _ best
names of the Junior Class, is the stu-
pidest break we have ever known Col-
lege men to make. It isn’t funny, al-
though, of course, meant to be. A fool-
ish, thoughtless act as it is, of no im-
portance in itself, it nevertheless in-
volves the good name of the College,
and of the Junior Class. If this is de-
nied, then the highly prized solidarity
of Yale life is denied.
There is no escaping the conclusion
that Yale will get, as the result of this
letter, an increased reputation as a
sports’ paradise.
The sending of the flag was,a good
deal worse than the sending of the let-
ter. Nothing can excuse or extenuate
that act. Perhaps all the signers weren’t
participants in it. From a decent stand-
point of College loyalty, it was an act
of treason.
We do not know, at this writing,
what may be done in the way of re-
pudiation of the act. But the mischief
has been done. In another issue we
shall comment on the reenforcement, by
this incident, of the demand for some
protection of the great majority against
the small minority.
PROFESSORS SEYMOUR AND BEERS’
STATEMENTS,
It is not necessary to ask readers to
notice what the Weekly has to offer
from Professor Beers and Professor
Seymour in this issue in regard to the
present equipment and needs and possi-
bilities of their respective departments.
These departments have become partic-
ularly interesting because Mr. Lampson
was so generous to them in his will,
and it is now the reasonable and lively
hope of the friends of Yale that they
shall be put on a basis which will mean
for the student at Yale as large oppor-
tunities along these lines as he can find
anywhere. Professor Seymour very
generously concedes the need to be
greatest in the Latin Department. If
the suggestion which he has made or
Similar ones can be carried out, Yale
will be without a peer in opportunities
for classical study.
Some people, we have no doubt, will
be surprised at some of the very frank
statements made by Professor Beers as
to his idea of the proper teaching of
English Literature. We doubt not there
will be a very general endorsement of
the plan to use the funds available to
the English Devartment under the
Lampson will in increasing the force in
the teaching of rhetoric. The sad fact
needs no reiteration that the average
college bred man secures, strictly from
his college course, only the most pa-
thetic idea of how to speak and to write
the Mneglish language. Of the enormous
amount of severe labor required in this
devartment, Professor Beers’ writes
graphically. It should be an added en-
dorsement for the development of the
Rhetorical Department that it has so
far been conducted with such admitted
skill and success.
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Prof. Cameron to Leave Yale.
It has just been made public that
Professor A. Guyot Cameron has re-
Signed his position as Assistant Pro-
fessor of French in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, and will leave the Univer-
Sity at the end of the college year.
His reasons for this step are not known,
and when interviewed, Professor Cam-
eron preferred not to discuss the mat-
ter, but merely to confirm the report.
PROFESSOR A. G. CAMERON.
Professor Cameron came to Yale six
years ago .as Assistant Professor of
French in the Sheffield Scientific School,
Bachelor of Arts
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