SATS CAT MME We
THE INAUGURATION.
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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
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A meeting of the Yale-Andover Club
was held Monday evening, October 9,
to organize for the present year. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, James C. Greenway, 1900; . Vice-
President, Frederick H. Swift; 1900 S.;
Sectetany, < Charles: :WiriCady.to0or;
Treasurer, William E. Day, 1902.
It was decided to hold a smoker Star
in the year.
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