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oy oes “1 Se ee ere sess Tete a | YALE ALUMNI JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. WW Hew isy UNIVERSITY IDEALS. [Continued from page 205.] that we shall have men who can rise to the level of these new conceptions and intelligently deal, in the public interest, with those things where expert private interests become at once so large and so menacing. The effort to deal with these things by the unintelligent exercise of our old legal traditions has been futile. To strive to control them by statutes unenforced as they have been in the past, is worse than futile. A sharp alternative remains before us: either to put in the hands of the govern- ment an arbitrary power and force to give effect to such statutes as it may pass, or to educate a public sentiment which shall deal with the problems of the present day by the same methods which the American people has in the past time used for dealing with its past problems. The former alternative means an undermining of true democ- racy; the latter means its continuance. So far as our university authorities can take a wide view of their functions and their duties 4s educators of public senti- ment, they can make themselves the guardians of our constitution and of our traditions as a nation. THE STRENGTH OF THE COLLEGE. I believe that this imminent need of education in social, as distinct from pro- fessional, duty, constitutes a reason why so much of our old-fashioned college life has been maintained in the face of such powerful arguments against it. The abstractions of the college class- room and the distractions of the college athletic field. though they interfere with © the forwardness of a boy’s preparation for his professional life, may after all prove a means for evoking something that is of more real importance to the community than the training of a few more experts. _If studies in literature and in deduc- tive science withdraw attention from the empiricism of the day, they furnish a means by which the student learns to place reliance on more permanent view points and loss shifting standards. If athletics inspires the young man to an apparent waste of time, in effort whose strenuousness and systematic pursuits only seems to the business man to in- crease its folly he may be thereby re- ceiving a lesson in ethics of more value to the country than anything else that could be given him; and, standing as he does on the threshold of an era of com- mercialism, may be steadying himself against the danger of selling his coun- try’s birthright for a mess of pottage. There is a fallacy in the view of those who would condemn the time spent in social life at college on account of the smallness of the tangible results achieved; and there is, above a 3 fundamental fallacy -in the views of those who have become so specialized in their several lines of life work as to underrate the imnortance of a religi- ous college atmosphere on the future manhood of the country. THE HIGHEST IDEAL. I believe, therefore, that the highest ideal of university education for America lies not in imitation of France or of Germany, but in the development of our college life on lines not wholly dissimilar to those which have hitherto prevailed. Not that I would insist on the preservation of any or all of 4s details. I hope, on the contrary, that as methods of education advance, we may see the means of preserving the col- lective life, the non-commercial interest, the traditional public sentiment, within a framework better adapted to the ne- cessities of the day. But to the central conception of a university as something | more than the place of training for the professional expert, ment for the individual along his own chosen personal lines, as it is in Ger- | many, I think we may hold consistently. The American citizen is a freeman and a ruler; the training of the American citizen must be a training for freedom and leadership. There will always be places of education for experts to take their places in the different parts of our | It is for us to see to it that | machine. there be at the same time leaders who shall see the whole and not the parts, and who shall be imbued with the spirit | that shall make this machine an instru- ment of public safety instead of public destruction. — = Mr. Steinert’s Musical Gift. It was announced last week that Mr. | Morris Steinert of New Haven had | given his great and unique musical col- lection of old musical instruments to Yale, with the provision that the Uni- | versity supply a suitable building for their reception. The collection, which contains about 500 individual pieces, represents a great part of Mr. Steinert’s life work and the outlay of thousands of dollars. It includes virginals, spinets, harpsichords, clavichords, viols, vio- lins and violoncellos, and shows, with | great clearness, the development of these | instruments down to the present time. | There are, besides, in the collection | many valuable old manuscripts and orig- | inal scores of the old masters, together | with a complete series of photographic manuscripts from the European mu- | seums. It is understood that plans are being made to set aside, in the new Bi-centen- nial buildings, a room suitable for the housing and exhibition of the collection. —— oe >—__———_ Essex County Dinner. : The annual dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County, will be held at Orange, N. J., on March ist. Robert H. McCarter, Princeton, 79, of Newark, | . 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[Continued from page 200.] lus wrote in the enthusiasm of youth, Horace in the maturity of manhood. Catullus: Had richer poctie” Sirts< of emotion and expression, yet Horace has had a vaster influence because he wrote upon higher subjects and had a higher motive. His combination of plain wisdom, good-natured wit, terse- ness and graceful expression has made him the most popular Latin author. The lyrics: of Catullus and» Horace have survived vast changes in religion, government and society. They consti- tute a very important contribution to the world’s literature and have preserved for us the form and something of the spirit of the lost lyric poetry of Greece. They have come down an inheritance from the distant past to show that, not- withstanding the many changes wrought by time, human nature remains the same. Professional Schools. YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL. 88th Annual Session, Oct. 4, 1900. The course leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Yale University is graded, covers four years, and consists of systematic, personal instruc- tion in laboratory, class-room and clinic. Lor announcements, send to the Dean. HERBERT E. SmituH, New Haven, Conn. SCHOOLS. THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL LAKEVILLE, CONN. An endowed school, devoted exclusively to preparation for college, or scientific school, according to Yale and Harvard stan- dards. | | A limited number of scholarships, some | of which amount to the entire annual fee, | are available for deserving candidates of | Slender means who can show promise ot | marked success in their studies. EDWARD G. Coy, Head Master. BETTS ACADEMY, STAMFORD, CONN.—61st Year. Prepares for universities or technical schools. Special advantages to students desiring to save | HOME LIFE and the IN- | time in preparation. DIVIDUAL, the basis of work. WM. J. BETTS, M.A. (Yale), Principal. CHESTNUT HILL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. JAMES L. PATTERSON, Head Master. | - BERKELEY SCHOOL Upon old Columbia College site, _ Madison Ave. and 49th St. Twentieth year opens Monday, Oct. 2, ’99. All classes limited to twelve boys, JOHN S. WHITE, LL.D., Head-Master. THE CUTLER SGHOOL, No. 20 E. 50th ST., NEW YORK CITY. Two hundred and forty-nine pupils have been prepared for College and Scientific Schools since 1876, and most of these haye entered YALE, HARVARD, COLUMBIA or PRINCETON. RIVERVIEW ACADEMY. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 64th Year. Prepares thoroughly for College, the Gov- ernment Academies and business. Military instruction and discipline. JOSEPH E. BISBEE, A.M., Principal. THE SIGLAR SCHOOL. My pamphlet contains a logical discussion of the school question, and also describes a proper school for ayoung boy. Let mesend you a copy. HENRY W. SIGLAR, Newburgh, N. Y. sta blished in 1866. DR. HOLBROOK’S SCHOOL, SING SING, N. Y. A First-Class Preparatory School, furnish- ing, in addition, the mental and physical advan- tages of military training and discipline. No more vacancies till September, 1900. Satis- factory references as to character before pupils are received. Out-of-Door-Life and Study for Boys. Tue ADDRESS OF THE THACHER SCHOOL is Nordhoff, [Southern] California. In doimg business with advertisers, please mention the WEEKLY. GIRLS’ SCHOOLS. ST. MARGARET’S SCHOOL, WATERBURY, CONN. MISS MARY R. HILLARD, Principal. Reference by permission to Ex-PresipENT DwicuT, Yale University. Principal C. F. P. Bancrort, Phillips Academy Chestnut Hill Academy, | The Catharine Aiken School FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG LADIES STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT. ee | Academic, College Preparatory and Special Illustrated Catalogues on: application. | Courses. For details inquire of the Principal, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Scoville Devan. CaaN
