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SOUTH MIDDLE.
There is no escaping the strength of
the sentiment for the preservation of
South Middle. It is some relief to
know that it will not be immediately de-
molished, but that is a very moderate
sort of comfort. If the authorities of
Yale would say clearly that South Mid-
dle would never be destroyed, but that
it would be both retained and restored,
and be forever established upon the
Campus, we believe there would be a
response of enthusiasm that would be
quite worth while. Whenever the sub-
ject comes up, the very name of the
building is met with enthusiasm. Hardly
any other name is so easy to conjure
with. Mr. Beaman of Harvard, in his
speech at the Long Island Alumni ban-
quet, expressed the fee ling for the old
very strongly. There is something in
such a memorial and the sentiment about
it and the atmosphere that will cling to
it and will be imparted by it to the
whole University, that is not limited to
those men who lived in it, or to their
generation. It is not to be measured
financially, or architecturally. It is
very easy to make mistakes in putting
up new buildings, but it is mighty easy
to avoid mistakes in tearing down: old
ones. The destruction of South Mid-
dle would, in our opinion, be a very
great mistake.
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JUDGE TAFT’S APPOINTMENT.
The appointment of Judge Taft as the
head of the new Philippine Commis-
sion does not add a new name to the
list of the Yale men who are in the
public service, for he was already con-
spicuously in public work as a Federal
Judge. But it does add to the Yale
forces in what might be called active
political service, and is therefore an oc-
casion for especial congratulation. The
unanimous endorsement by the best pub-
lic sentiment of the choice of the Presi-
dent of a man to do work which is
of the very first order of importance,
follows very naturally upon the record
which the appointee had already made.
Yale men will remember that Judge
Taft was very conspicuous among the
strong candidates for the Presidency
of the University, although he with-
of the Jurisprudence Department
VALE ALUMNI
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drew his own name very emphati-
cally. When a man is both conspicu-
ous for his Yale devotion and for his
usefulness as a public servant the value
of his example is all the more felt.
Yale is keeping up her reputation for
close contact with the affairs of the
nation. From now on, as the responsi-
bility for those affairs increases in
eravity by the extent and complexity
of the problems of the day, we hope
the more to see Yale-bred men in the
harness, whether working for the nation
or for their own state or for their
own city or town. The call is just as
high for the filling by the best of men
of the humbler positions as for the
greater. The nature of the office is not
of so much importance as the spirit
which a man takes into it.
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The Accident to Mr. Langford.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
I hardly recall. a man that was so
generally before the public in Yale
aquatics as George Langford was dur-
ing his years as stroke of the Univer-
sity Crew. It seems a cruel irony of
fate that his noble form, the acknowl-
edged exemplification of strength, skill,
and grace, should be forever debarred
from exercising again its natural pre-
rogatives. All that know him will
sympathize with him, and are truly
grateful that the brute force spared his
life.
G. St.J. SHEFFIELD.
Attleborough, Mass, Feb. 9, 1900.
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1900 Social Science Meeting.
The American Social Science Asso-
ciation will hold its annual meeting for
- 1900, at Washington, D. C., from April
At the session
(of
which Dean Wayland is Chairman) on
Friday, a paper will be read by Presi-
dent Hadley. The subject is not yet
announced.
30 to May 4 inclusive.
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The Druids.
The first meeting of the Druids for the
present college year was held Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 7, in Room 162 in the
Chemical Laboratory building. Presi-
dent Hadley gave a short talk on the
possibilities of university development.
The Druids is an organization, or club,
of men from all departments of the
University and was started about three
years ago with the purpose of bringing
the departments into closer touch.
Several meetings are held during each
year.
AR SA SR OP tag Ne
University Club Elections,
The University Club Governing Board
held a meeting at the Club Monday
evening, February 5, and elected the
following members: T. S. Adams, 1901
S.:.G. F. Allen, 1901 S..: :G.. FE. Arm-
strong, Jr., : 1001 S.% Jasper Bayne,
$001 >.> sho da, Helin. -t001-S.< Wo ak.
Barnard, 1901 S.; G. N. Copley, Igor
a N.. Conner, roo1 S.; Walter
uren, 1901 S.; E. H. Fisher, Special S. ;
Wok. Fasthorn, 1001 S:; C.- A; Poster:
10Gl 3; A, watta, 1001. S.:. J. BA.
Fosburgh, Special S.; J. F. Terry, 1001
S.; Montague Ferry, 1901S.; W. M.
Fincke, 1901 S.; Southard Ilay, Spe-
Chiba. ty cp eetioer. Tept. is: 4.
Humbird, 1901 S.; R. R. Lee, 1901 S.;
Lesley McCreath..1902S.; T. A. Mc-
Ginley, toorS.; L. P Myers, roo1 S.;
Jo Ogilvie, Jr..: tou Si; “Henry
Pearce: fr... 2001 9.3 (Ky Pek Spe
Got 3 or B Pe ing, toor S *
Di Ouinby, ‘i902 Si. 1 7 Ryee-
son, Toar 8.5. C.-C. Sprite “too1 S- :
A, fe . Sinith,.. 100. S.; -B, M Santh.
epecidi a. JO. tobi bh. 1.5 ks
Toothe, 1901 S.; J. E. White, Special
= F..5. Warmouth, 1901 $.: M. J.
Whitely, 1901 S.; A. P. Wilde., toot S.
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A stim amounting to nearlr $100,000
was placed in the hands of tht Corpora-
tion of Harvard University by the will
of the late Caroline Brewer Croft, to be
used in the investigation of the disease
of cancer.
WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY IDEALS.
The First and Highest Work for the
University of the United States
—A Study of Other Nations,
[Being the speech delivered before the Brooklyn
es oop aaa Feb. 5, by President Arthur T. Hadley of
Every great nation has developed its
own conception of a university and its
own ideals of what university life
should do for those who come under its
influence.
In France the university is simply the
sum total of organized higher educa-
tion, regulated from the center by the
central government and forming a
recognized part of the machinery of that
government in preparing men for the
higher walks of professional service. .
In Germany there are separate univer-
sities, with a greater diversity of life.
They are indeed regarded as a part of
a system of public instruction, but they
have more independence of initiative.
There is less effort to make them con-
form rigidly to a common plan. The
training which they impose in their
several faculties, although designed with
the idea of preparing men for public
positions, has less of the distinctively
technical character than is seen in
France. In England this independence
is carried much farther. The English
universities are chartered corporations,
separate from the government and sub-
ject to very slight control from the
public authorities. The courses of edu-
cation which they arrange for their
students are not as a rule specially ar-
ranged with reference to the needs of
professional examinations. The non-
technical and non-professional work,
which in the German university life
is but an incident, becomes in the Eng-
lish university course the dominant
feature.
THE LIFE OF THE STUDENT.
The same difference is seen in the
ideals of the several countries with re-
gard to the conduct of the student. In
France university life is purely and sim-
ply one of professional preparation.
Of course the students at a French uni-
versity may attend lectures not bearing
on their own specialty, and will have
their own means of enjoyment and
recreation outside of their studies. But
these things are not identified with uni-
versity life in the French public mind,
The lectures which do not bear on pro-
fessional advancement are regarded as
having little or no part in the student’s
course; and the amusements, whether
innocent or hurtful, are something
wholly apart from the educational sys-
tem—an evil to be tolerated rather than
a means of training to be utilized.
| In Germany the case is somewhat dif-
ferent. Not until the later part of his
four years’ work does the German stu-
dent apply himself to that technical
'preparation for examinations which oc-
cupies so much of the French student’s
attention from the first. He is encour-
aged at the beginning to attend the lec-
tures on a wider range of subjects than
those which deal with his own profes-
sion exclusively; and within the range
of his professional work he is given
every chance to lay broad foundations
rather than narrow ones,—preparations
for wide scientific understanding of his
life work, rather than for mastery of its
technical details.
Still more marked is: the contrast
in connection with the outside amuse-
ments. The German student’s Corps or
Burschenschaft forms in many cases a
recognized part of his university train-
ing. Whatever its extravagances and its
misuses, its inordinate beer drinking and
its grotesque duelling code, it yet re-
mains an educational influence of great
importance. To’ a very large part of
those who enjoy its privileges it means
opportunity for close acquaintance with
men of their own age, such as they
would never have otherwise. It means
watchfulness in the formation of char-
acter and in the development of a code
of honor which, though readily subject
to caricature, is better than no code
at all.
_However easy it may be for out-
siders and for pedants to condemn it,
it nevertheless remains true that this
German society system has been a
means of inspiration to the individual
student constantly, and in _ critical
emergencies to the German public
a whole, and that it furnishes an ele-
ment for whose absence the French
schools, even with their unrivalled sys-
tem of technical training, can offer no
adequate equivalent. The ideal German
student life is. one which is not only
a professional training, but a means of
broadening for the whole man.
THE DIFFERENCE IN ENGLAND.
In England the divergence from the
French system is still greater. From
the ideal of English university life, as
it is represented in Oxford and Cam-
bridge, the element of professional edu-
cation drops out almost wholly. Itis not
simply that the student’s instruction has
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