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Assistant Professor Mendel.
Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, who has
been connected with the Department of
Physiological Chemistry in the Shef-
field Scientific School as assistant and
instructor since his graduation as Ph.D.
in 1893, was appointed at the last Cor-
poration meeting, Assistant Professor
in the same Department.
Dr. Mendel prepared for college at
Delaware Academy, Delhi, N. Y. He
graduated from the Academic Depart-
ment of Yale University in the Class of
- 7891, and received the degree of Ph.D.
in 1893. He held the Larned Fellow-
ship from 1891 to 1894. In 1895, Dr.
Mendel went to Germany for research
work, studying Physiology at Breslau
University in Heildenbram Laboratory.
He also studied physiological chemis-
try in the Baumann Laboratory of the
University of Freiburg in Baden.
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Mhe True Glory of a University.
{New York Sun.]
The real greatness of a university,
however, depends rather on the intel-
lectual force it carries within it than
upon the mere material habitation it
occupies. Great men in its halls rather
than magnificent buildings are its first
requisite. An inferior man may be
made to seem all the more inferior
because of the grandeur of the abode
he erects for himself. He may be so
far incongruous with his material sur-
roundings in his own dignity and con-
sequence that they will simply increase
the impression of his insignificance.
He may be dwarfed by the very grand-
eur in which he lives. Everthing else
may be in tasteful harmony, and only
his own individuality out of place and
discordant amid it all.
We do not say this in disparagement
of the California University, which has
rapidly achieved a place of eminence
among American schools of learning,
but simply to put the scheme to mag-
nify its architectural importance into its
true relative place as of little signifi-
cance comparatively with the intellect-
ual development necessary to make it
a veritable university. The life, the
strength, the useftilness of a school of
learning is in its corps of instruction,
selected in due accordance with the ele-
vation and the comprehensiveness of its
scheme of education. A great univer-
sity might exist in the least attractive
and imposing of edifices for its accom-
modation; and the grandeur of its ma-
terial residence might only serve to
make the more conspicuous the intel-
lectual proverty of a merely nomial
university. The shell is requisite, but
the living and propagating germ 1s in
the kernel.
A university should be adapted to the
civilization about it, for only by such
adaptation can it assist in cultivating
and stimulating a demand for its com-
plete development. It cannot be an
exotic transplanted from another civili-
zation, but must be an indigenous plant
growing spontaneously in the soil where
it exists; An American university, ac-
cordingly, must be inspired with the
American spirit and adapted to the polli-
tical and social conditions of this West-
ern civilization. It must develop in
harmony with the needs of the society
about it.
The first necessity for a university,
therefore, is that its scheme of educa-
tion and intellectual training should be
the conception of large men of both
perceptive and comprehensive minds
and also of specialized abilities. Under
our American college system the head
of a college, known as the president, oc-
cupies a place which is peculiar to this
country, as compared with the great
universities of Europe, and it has be-
come the more anomalous since some
of our colleges have grown from mere
high schools to the stature of veritable
universities. In the old days the presi-
dent was usually a clergyman, the col-
leges generally owing their foundation,
if not their support, to particular re- .
ligious communions; he was merely the
head of the faculty of professors, he
himself discharging the duties of some
chair of instruction in the institution.
He was simply the primate, and it was
requisite that he be a man of learning,
- qualified to hold his own with the high-
est intellectual ability in the institution.
Accordingly he was selected with strict
reference to those conditions and re-
quirements.
Nowadays, however, in some of our
colleges most ambitious of distinction
as universities, the president is selected:
with reference chiefly, if not wholly, to
his abilities as a business administrator.
He takes no direct part in the instruc-
tion; yet he occupies a place which
gives him power and influence in shap-
ing the purely scholastic and intellec-
tual character of the university. It may
happen that he is not even a man of
education in the high and broad sense,
and therefore without qualifications for
grasping the true university idea or even
for recognizing them in others; yet he
stands before the public as the chief re-
presentative of the institution, and its
title to consideration is measured by his
intellectual calibre and the standard of
education exhibited by himself. Trus-
tees, with large governing power and
great influence in determining the
scholastic course of the university, may
also be men known to be of deficient
education and without the breadth of
view justifying their association with
any institution assuming to. occupy the
high and comprehensive fields of uni-
versity training. The only valuable
distinction and consequence such a col-
lege has in the eyes of discriminating
men comes from jndividuals in its fa-
About a Yale Paper—_-
It is the aim of the Yale Weekly to give the news and
the views of all Yale—to tell about it, to illustrate it,
to comment on it, and to co-operate with all who are
working for it.
It seeks to cover the entire field, Graduate
and Undergraduate, Academic, Scientific and Professional.
With the co-operation of Yale men everywhere, it has
succeeded in so far commending itself to its constituency
as to be able to say now that it comes under the eye of a
majority of the entire Yale family.
If you are a graduate
and are not familiar with the
paper, you are asked to give it a trial. |
Undergraduates are reading it more and more each year
aS a Supplement to their regular journals.
The subscription price
is at Room 6, White Hall.
is $2.50 per year. The office
The post office address js
Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn,
culty whose superiority ‘is indubitable
and whose fame in their special de-
partments of study and investigation is
widespread; yet they are subordinate,
and may be at the mercy of the narrow
and restricted understandings of a far
inferior president and of uneducated
trustees who have been chosen for their
places for material and temporal rea-
sons only.
As we have said, the intellectual dis-
tinction of a university rather than its
material accessories give it its true
glory; and that glory must be reflected
on the institution from the distin-
euished abilities of the men making up
its corps of professors and lecturers,
whether it be in California or here in
New York.
periors, the indispensable element.
The chief title of the President and
trustees to consideration consists in
their ability to recognize that essential
superiority. Get your noble buildings,
University of California, and may they
be of the splendid architectural dis-
tinction for which you seek, but think
first and most of the spiritual and in-
tellectual essence, without which there
can be no university.
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Average Measurements.
The measurements, in inches and
pounds, of the average student among
twenty-three hundred, as compiled by
Dr. Jay W. Seaver of the University
Gymnasium, are given below:
Age, 19.7 years; weight, 139;_ height
of body, 67.8; sitting, 35.8; knee, 17.6;
length of shoulders, 14.5; elbow, 18.2;
arm reach, 70.0; right foot, 10.0; left
foot, 10.0; girth, head, 22.3; neck, 13.8}
chest, normal, 33.9; chest, inflated, 35.8;
Waist, 28:7: “hips, 35:3: biceps, 1EO:
right arm, 10.0; left arm, 9.8; right
elbow, 9.0; left elbow, 8.8; right fore--
arm, 10.3; left forearm, 10.0; right
wrist, 6.4; left wrist, 6.4; right thigh,
20.3; left thigh, 20.0; right knee, 14.0;
left knee, 14.0; right calf, 13.8; left calf,
13.8; right instep, 9.1; left instep, 9.1;
breadth, head, 6.1; neck, 4.2; shoulders,
16.0; chest, 10.7; waist, 10.0; hips, 12.7;
depth, chest, 7.4; abdomen, 7.1; capac-
ity of lungs, 236 cubic inches; strength
92.
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The Daniel Lord Scholarship for the
Senior class has been awarde to Mor-
‘rill W. Gaines, ’98, and the Waterman
Scholarship for the Junior class to
John K. Clark, ’g9.
FOR A VACATION.
Did you ever try New Haven in the
quieter times? The University and
the City have their own distinct
charm and attractiveness apart from
the gaiety and electric enthusiasm’
of athletic carnivals or social func-
tions. The life of the place is not
always exciting—far from it. But
a college community furnishes an
infinite variety of interest — with
much unexpectedness.
‘anything but refreshing.
And if you have friends in the Uni-
versity, it is especially easy to get
the atmosphere of the place. |
And New Haven itself — New Haven
people, New Haven drives, the har-
bor, the sea and the hiils —these
are all here.
Before you wind up Ninety-seven and
fasten your grip on Ninety-eight,
wouldn’t you better get out of
yourself and into the spirit of this
place? For restfulness and solid
comfort --- airy, well heated, well
ventilated rooms—and a minister-
ing unto the desires of the inner
man at a table known all over the
land, you will naturally choose
MOSELEY’S NEW HAVEN HOUSE.
They are the real su-~
of back, 33.8; of legs, 410; of forearm,
It’s never
(Opposite the Campus and the Green. )
M. Mullally, ’98, has been appointed
manager of the University Hockey
Team.
At a meeting of the -Handball Club
held last week, a committee composed
of Dr. Seaver, M. U. Ely, ’98, and Win-
chester Noyes, ’99, was appointed to
make arrangements for a tournament
to be held later. |
Thomas McKean has given $100,000
to the University of Pennsylvania for
its fund for a new law school. In
honor of the donor, the reading-room
in the new building will be named
after Mr. McKean’s great-grandfather,
Chief Justice McKean.
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