YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
of students at the time was only be-
tween twenty and thirty.
The policy at once adopted by the
new administration, and which has since
been followed, had in view not only the
teaching of the subjects according to
the latest scientific advances in medical
studies, but the doing of this by the
method of individual instruction, both
in laboratories and clinics. This re-
quired additional funds for new labora-
tory equipments and for instructors in
certain subjects who could devote their
entire time to the School. The ad-
vance was at first slow, though evident
to those in a position to recognize it.
Financial assistance came slowly.
Credit for the growth of the Depart-
ment is due largely to those few men
who have given a most generous
amount of time to the work of instruc-
tion. Thy have been obliged to divide
their classes, because of lack of room,
and teach subjects in sections which
could as well or better have been
taught to the class as a whole; they
have performed the duties of assistants
because funds were lacking to engage
assistants; and they have done this, too,
on very much smaller salaries than are
received by similar officers of instruc-
tion in other departments of the Uni-
versity.
But in spite of this no one of the
departments in existence thirteen years
ago, with the single exception of the
Graduate School, has shown so great a
percentage of increase in the number
of students as the Medical - School.
More than four times as many students
were registered this past year as in
1886, and this in spite of the fact that
the graduating class this year, being
the one affected by the change from
the three to the four years’ course, was
very small. The success of the grad-
uates, in securing position by strictly
competitive examination, is sufficient
proof of the quality of instruction as
given under the present curriculum.
The success of the past has been grati-
fying. If this is to continue, two things
are necessary, and that at once; more
room and more funds. President
Dwight has appreciated this fully, and
no one has stated it more clearly than
he. In his last annual report he says:
“The provision of a satisfactory build-
ing for the purposes indicated (Clinical
and Pathological instruction) would be
helpful in the highest degree to the
well-being and prosperity of the Medi-
cal School, and, in the judgment of
the President, no gift of greater value
to the University could be offered, at
the present time, than such a building.
The Medical Department is now at a
critical point in its growth and ad-
vancement. This building is what it
most imperatively demands for the ac-
complishment of its work and for. its
highest success. If it can be secured,
this Department of the University will
be established in its prosperity for the
future, beyond all reasonable doubt.
The strength of the Department is of
great moment to the University as a
whole.
have occasion for satisfaction and grati-
tude if the desired result—the erection
of the building—can be assured within
the next few months, or the next year.
The sum of one hundred and twenty-
five, or one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars will be needed to meet the
necessary expense The import-
ance of a very considerable increase in
the endowment ‘of the School may be
urged again at this time. The de-
mands of the present period render it
essential that the officers of instruction
should .be more liberally provided for
in the matter of salaries than is now
possible. At least two hundred thou-
sand dollars should be added, at the
The University as a whole will
earliest possible moment, to the exist-
ing funds. Nothing is now
needed for the development of the
School to such a degree, and after so ad-
mirable a manner, as to satisfy and more
than satisfy, every true-hearted friend of
the University, except the enlargement
of the funds at its command to an extent
sufficient for the erection of its build-
ing already mentioned and for the
realization of its present plans.”
The graduates of the School have also
recognized these needs. At the recent
annual meeting of the Yale “Medical
Alumni Association, the report of which
appears elsewhere in this issue, this
was made evident. A committee, repre-
senting different sections of the country,
was chosen to assist in the great Bi-
centennial movement for the raising of
funds, by working among the graduates
and friends of the Department. It
seems certain that the result cannot be
doubtful. It must be success. The
time has passed when the attendance
of students is doubtful. We firmly be-
lieve that the time will very soon be
passed when the lack of buildings and
the lack of funds must seriously ham-
per the officers of instruction of the
Medical Department in development
along the broad. lines laid down years
ago.
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THE REGATTA.
Mr. Curtiss, the Chairman of the
Regatta Committee, Mr. Bond, Mr.
Chappell and the other members of the
New London Committee, and Mr. Mann
of Harvard and Mr. Preston of Yale
are all entitled to much credit for the
general excellence of the arrangements
for the Regatta this year. Mr. Curtiss
did very good work in bringing about
a satisfactory agreement between the
Universities and the railroads, and per-
sonally supervised all the preparations
for the race.
Perhaps another year the United
States Government will be able to en-
force its orders, and then matters will
be in a most satisfactory condition.
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VIOLATION OF FEDERAL ORDERS.
The Navy Department should not
waste time in finding out who is re-
sponsible for the gross violation of
orders at New London, which resulted
in spoiling the end of one race and
seriously interfering with another.
When the work of preparation and gen-
eral management was so well done, by
both New London and the two Univer-
sities, as it was this year, it is the greater
pity that such a “fluke” should occur
as the opening of the drawbridge at
exactly the wrong time. The orders of
the Secretary of the Navy were per-
fectly clear. Why weren’t they carried
out? |
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MEETING AS GENTLEMEN.
At last Yale and Harvard have met at
New Londonas gentlemen. There was,
at first, some spying this year—and we
were pleased to express ourselves on
the subject. But the old spirit of hos-
tility and suspicious aloofness was only
slightly in evidence at the first part of
the New London campaign, and finally
wore away altogether. To Mr. Gal-
laudet and to Mr. Storrow, to Mr. Allen
and to Mr. Higginson, and to the mem-
bers and supporters of both crews,
we take pleasure in extending our con-
gratulations on this happy condition.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING.
President Dwight’s reference to dis-
cipline in public speaking is one of the
most timely points in his last report.
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