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SATS CAT MME We THE INAUGURATION. [Continued from 35th page.] tive in its functions. Whatever else such a body may do or fail to do, it can prevent many of the misunderstandings and cross purposes which arise from imperfect information, and can thus con- tribute to the successful transaction of all business that is possible by prevent- ing attempts at the impossible. | In the second place, we must so use those funds which are at the disposal of the central administration as to make it an object for men in the different de- partments to cooperate at those points where the absence of such cooperation does most harm. THE NECESSITY OF CO-ORDINATION. As far as elementary teaching is con- cerned, the waste from having the same subject taught in two or more depart- ments may be more apparent than real. It involves no very great loss to teach elementary chemistry in two independent sets of laboratories, if both laboratories are always kept full of students. The waste comes in thus teaching advanced chemistry where there are relatively few students and where there is much need of specialization. Under such circum- stances the existence of separate labora- tories tends to prevent proper division of labor. Under such duplication is a waste and co6drdination a necessity. If the material appliances for higher education are not the property of any one department, but stand in relation to the university as a whole, the instructors of the different departments tend of their own free will to codperate with one another in the higher instruc- tion in their several branches. Under proper management, institutions like the Peabody Museum or the Winchester Observatory tend thus to systematize in- struction at the point where such an effect is most needed. With a very moderate increase of endowment, prop- erly applied, I believe that the same sort of harmony can be attained in many other lines of instruction. Among the achievements of my predecessor in office, there is none so wide-reaching in its effects as the development of a large university fund which, without threat- ening the independence of the several departments, can be used to provide means for promoting unity of action where stich unity is indispensable. _In the English universities the teach- ing is in large measure done by the several colleges, while the examinations are, with few exceptions, the affair of the university. It seems probable that the development of Yale in the future may be just the reverse of this; the several colleges taking charge of the examinations and of those more elemen- tary studies whose control naturally con-- nects itself with the control of examina- tions, while the distinctively teaching appliances come, to a constantly greater extent, into the hands of the univer- sity authorities. Under such a system we should have a well-ordered scheme of local government, where each depart- ment could make its own rules, prescribe the conditions of entrance and gradua- tion and be subject to the minimum of interference from without; but where at the same time the instruction would be so ordered that students whose course lay under the control of one faculty could yet enjoy to the fullest possible extent the teaching provided by another, and where, as the subject of study be- came more and more advanced, the dis- tinction of separate faculties or colleges would disappear altogether. THE RESPONSIBILITY ACCEPTED. Such are, in brief outline, a few of the problems which we have inherited from-the past. It would be indeed a large burden had we not also inherited from that past an inspiration yet larger. Yale S seal bears the motto, “Light and Truth”; Yale‘s history has been worthy of its signet. Never have there been wanting torch-bearers to take the light from the hands that relinquished it. In this place, hallowed by the deeds of our fathers, all words of formal acceptance of the duties which they have left us are meaningless. It is a God-given trust: may God bless the issue! On the conclusion of President Had- ley's address, Professor George P Fisher, Dean of the Theological School. and senior Dean of the University de- livered a congratulatory address on be- half of the different Faculties of the University. He spoke as follows: circumstances’ ~ structors,—this Prof. Fisher’s Address. The not unwelcome duty is assigned to me, in the name of the Faculties of the University, to congratulate you on your accession to office, and to pledge to you their sympathy and support in the bearing of its burdens. I could not make this address a mere perfunctory task. Memory runs back to the days when your honored father, a scholar than whom, in my judgment, none more gifted has ever held a chair at Yale, was doing his work, and when, under his tuition, you were passing your early years. Not in the spirit of flattery, but sincerely, it may be said that during your own personal connection with the University as an instructor, the lustre of that honored name has not been dimmed. Speaking for your colleagues in the several Faculties, I need not as- sure you that on this occasion our per- sonal regard mingles with the sense of obligation to hold up the hands of those placed in authority. We are not sorry that the Corpora- tion has found it practicable and expedi- ent to follow the precedents of the last eighty years and to elect the President from the corps of instructors, who from their acquaintance with the Institution are likely to know better than anybody else what qualities are required in its head. Your associates, let me say, in all the departments, will not fail to ac- cord to the new President that inde- pendence of judgment which befits the office. They will not be so unreasonable as to expect him to copy in all respects the example of those who have preceded him in the same station, worthy as they are of admiration and esteem. A Presi- dent of the United States once an- nounced in his inaugural address—al- though not in these precise terms—that he should follow in the footsteps of his “illustrious predecessor.’ But‘ the best kind of following, as all of us under- stand, is not in doing the very things that others have done before us. Not by imitation, but by inspiration, do we get the most profit from the past. Nor shall we, I trust, make our respect for our chief to depend on his agreement in all points with our own opinions and pref- erences. If there are people who be- lieve themselves infallible, they cer- tainly have no excuse for judging harshly those to whom they do not ascribe this rare gift. The mortals who never make a misstep are too apt to win this distinction by taking no step at all. It may fairly be expected of a body of educated men that they should recognize good sense in general and a disinterested ‘aim, and bear with.dissent from them- selves in particular instances of con- duct. Suffer me to remark that the Faculties are glad that the reins are to be in the hands of one who is familiar with the system of administration which has so long been established at Yale. A Corporation exercising an attentive supervision, yet committing in the main to the teaching body the function of initiating measures and nominating in- body, however, being always conscious that its proposals are to pass in review before the Board whose authority rests not upon custom, but upon law: a President who is a mem- ber of both bodies and in free inter- course with each, and with a reserved power, seldom exercised, to withhold his sanction from the -doings of the Faculty :—such, in brief outline, has been the Yale system. We know that you appreciate the merits of a polity, in which not a spirit of dictation, but a spirit of codperation, is a marked characteristic, and that you are conscious to what extent the prosperity of this Institution has been owing to it. You are aware, as those less acquainted with our history may not be, that to this partly unwritten constitution is to be largely ascribed the self-sacrifice of so many of the professors at Yale, who have lived and labored, not in the temper of wage-earners, but rather as partners in a great public enterprise. In no other way can we account for the unsurpassed devotion of the few men who constituted the Faculty in the earlier decades of the present century, by whom the fame of the College was carried over the land and across the sea. which dignifies the office of professor in any college or wuniversity,—a spirit so in contrast with a narrow self-seek- ing sometimes unhappily displayed by college professors,—which calls to mind Lord Bacon’s trenchant characterization of the herd of baser politicians, “never caring in all tempests what becomes of the Ship of State, so that they may save themselves in the cock-boat of their own [Continued on next page.] This temper it is - From one end of the land to the other, wherever men who demand the best are found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized standard of merit and fashion. They are best for dress, for the street, for riding, driving, or golfing — for all occasions and all purposes. rectly gloved. sell them. 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