At A 0 Mea WEEKLY’ YALE IN FOREIGN MISSIONS. [Continued from 5th page.] acquaintance with its methods and with the conditions of the world. A. more serious danger we must face is the apathy in the colleges and churches due to lack of knowledge of the world itself and the Gospel. “God is going to stamp Yale University with the .mis- sion seal and is going to bring out a glorious band which are in sympathy with missions because acquainted with them.” This intelligent sympathy lies behind the volunteer movement which is making students familiar with the history of missions—a mighty litera- ture which has been unread by many,— the biography of men and women who have given their lives for the sake of missions, and the real conditions which prevail in all lands. Most college men cannot go to the foreign field, but they must become the laymen at home in all parts of the land. They must be the teachers at home, where the Christian pulpits are filled with men who are ionorant of this movement. This enthusiasm for mis- sions has taken hold of the colleges as never before—not only here but in the oldest universities abroad. Into whatever occupation the college man goes, he can be an educator along these mission lines and a center of this knowledge. There ought to be in the curriculum of every college of the land some pro- vision for the study of missions—the most fascinating and broadest of sub- jects connected with the history, litera- ture and sociology of the nations. Such study will keep any man from leading a provincial, localized life, while its neglect has killed many min- isters. To be all-round men, we must read, learn and digest this great sub- ject. Dr. Hall then repeated his pro- phecy that God would stamp the Uni- versity with the seal of missions, and closed his remarks with the question, “Who in this assembly will follow in Christ’s world-wide mission?” “YALE’S MISSIONS. For many years Yale has been well represented in foreign lands by such men as Henry Blodget, ’48 (China); R. A. Hume, ’68 (India); E. S. Hume, ’790 (India); W. B. Boomer, ’80 (Chili) ; J. 1 Dewitt, 64. (Japan) + -ds..P. Peet, “85 (Chana) oC... Gb. 80... (China ys), ie rientington, o2g.1 China), ana Ay. H. Sallmon, ’94 (Australasia). Other names could be given. Splendid opportunity for missionary study is given at Yale, and the under- graduates are availing themselves of the privilege. At the Divinity School Dr. Day has collected some 5,000 mis- sionary books and pamphlets, pub- lished not only in the United States but in Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland,; Sweden, Den- mark, Norway, China and Japan. Yale can now claim the only library of this kind in the country. In fact there is only one other in the world—that in Denmark. With seventeen men in the University planning to go into foreign mission work, and with a class of thirty men meeting each week to study mis- sion questions,.we may expect to find more and more Yale graduates going to the corners of the earth with the great purpose of the evangelization of the world. | T: F, Archbald. > 0>—___ -—-— Gymnastic Exhibitions. The annual exhibition of the Yale Gymnasium Association was held in the Yale Gymnasium last night. The Association was assisted by Mr. John Bissenger and Mr. Otto Steffen, both of the New York Turn Verein. Dur- ing the intermission the Apollo Banjo Club played several selections. — The annual joint exhibition by the _ Yale and Princeton Gymnastic teams will be held on the coming Saturday at Princeton. The usual program will be rendered. The mén who will make up the Yale team are: F. A. Lehlbach, 98, Captain; B. C. Chamberlin, P. G.: W. K. Shepard, P.G.; S. Peterson, debt RR. ae ClppE OO Sie ke 7, Anderson, ’98S.; W. L. Otis, 1900; E. L. Eliason, toor; G. H. Whipple, 1900; A. H. Terry, ’08. ———__—_+4—__—_— On Friday, March 25, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, represen- tatives from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia, will meet to form plans for an intercollegiate gun club shoot. YALE’S FACULTY, A Criticism for the Infrequent Pro- ductions. In a letter to the New York Times, a man who signs himself “A University Professor,’ comments unfavorably on the fact of the comparatively slight contributions to scientific knowledge which are made by the Faculty of Yale. The complaint is not only as to the — actual instruction given, but as to the failure to contribute to human knowl- edge by publication, as compared with the possibilities which would ordinarily be attributed to an institution of the name and resources of Yale. It is interesting in this connection to recall an interesting address made at the last Commencement dinner by Prof. George F. Moore of Andover. After sketching the work and the de- velopment of Yale, and indicating the burden which it had placed on the shoulders of the Faculty, he said: “This great development has_ been accomplished by the devotion and self- sacrifice of the men who, during this quarter of a century, have filled the chairs of instruction here. The change, made in the way in which it was, im- posed upon them a double burden of teaching. Many prescribed courses were to be continued, and classes in- creasing in number from year to year . with unprecedented rapidity to be in- structed in them, while at the same time ‘a great variety for undergraduates, and others of more advanced character in the graduate school, now no longer a minor adjunct of the College, but one of the most important departments of the University. “This work has been done with en- thusiasm by the Professors and their younger colleagues. They do not talk of sacrifice. I do not suppose that in their love for the University and their zeal for its interests they have ever thought .of it» as sacrifice, but as a teacher I have perhaps a right to say that the burden which has been so cheerfully borne by them is greater than we ought to be willing to see them bear. ; “We have even a selfish interest in relieving them from the strain of over- much teaching. For the idea of a uni- versity is not merely a place where instruction is given in all good learn- ing; it is a place for scientific re- search; the advancement of learning in a no less important function of the University than the education of youth, and the no less obligatory .duty of those who fill its Chairs. The fame of its members in the world of scholars is not only the just pride of the Uni- versity, but, if I may speak commer- cially, its most valuable capital. difficult enough, even under favorable conditions, to combine the work of the scholar with that of the teacher, but where as much teaching is re- quired, and of such a kind, as is now given by the Faculty of Yale, it must often be achieved, if at all, at the peril of continued usefulness. “Tt is in the interest of the Univer- sity also that the scientific work of its Professors, its younger instructors and its graduate students should be published by the University. For much of such work there is no other natural —sometimes no other possible—chan- nel of publication. We ought not to lag behind our sister institutions, which are in this way both furthering higher learning and honorably asso- ciating their names with the merited fame of their own scholars. “Yale’s needs are many and great: no one who has sat in the Chapel this morning or in Alumni Hall this after- noon can doubt that she needs a build- ing adequate to the demands of such an occasion. These tangible needs impress us all, and we are glad that there is a prospect that they may be- fore long be met. But, after all, the greatest need of the University is such a generous increase of its endowment funds available for instruction and publication, and such an enlargement of its Faculty as shall be adequate to meet the daily needs of its multiply- ing classes, the ever widening range of graduate and undergraduate stud- ies, and the just claims of science upon this great and ancient seat of learn- ing.” : | CHURCH AND CHAPEL STREETS, New Haven, Conn. ASHEVILLE and HOT SPRINGS, N. 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