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Vou ik. oo No a NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1900. ACADEMIC. ELECTIVES A Course Preparatory to Law Study —MWMany Other New Courses. The prospectus of elective courses of- fered to the Junior and Senior classes of Yale College for the years 1900 and 1901, is the second specific evidence of the re- arrangement of the Yale curriculum upon which the Academic Faculty have been at work for several months. The Sophomore pamphlet was the first. At the opening of the prospectus, the change in regard to “Psychology, Ethics and Philosophy” is indicated. The study isno longer compulsory for Seniors, but is retained as required for the Juniors, in a course called “Logic, Psychology and Ethjes,” taught by Professors’ Ladd, Duncan and Sneath. It is rather notice- able that, in spite of the marked change of making this department of study en- tirely optional for Seniors, there is no very marked change in the courses offered. Professor Sneath, however, oiters a new two-hour course, “Elements of Philosophy,” to Juniors. The course by Professor Henry S. Williams on the “Principles of Evolution,” which proved very popular last year, is repeated. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW. In “Political Science and Law” there area number of interesting changes and additions. President Hadley’s name does not appear among the instructors this year. The course in “Economics,” given last year by Professors Hadley aid Schwab, is taken this year by Pro- iessors Emery and Schwab; Professor Emery having been appointed last Fall to fill the vacancy in the Department. He is now at Bowdoin, and begins his work here in September. It is notice- able that in this three-hour course, the third hour is given to personal instruc- tion, which was not attempted before. This hour will be a quiz exercise, in small sections, under Professors Emery and Schwab and Mr. Robinson. The course in “United States Indus- trial History” will be in charge of Pro- iessors Schwab and Emery, the latter again taking the President’s place. A new field in this course will be Professor Emery’s instruction in “Speculation and Modern Business Methods.” A large number of new courses are offered in this Department. These in- clude a course on “United States Pub- lic Finance,” by Professor Schwab; “Commercial Policy,” by Professor Emery; “Industrial Combinations,” by Mr. M. H. Robinson, the latter being principally a study of the modern ten- dency towards the concentration of in- dustry and the various plans for the regulation and control of capitalistic monopolies; a course by Dr. Bailey on- “American Social Conditions”; a course by Professor Emery on “Economic %,. eg Theory”; and a course by Dr. Gregory and Dr. Keller on “Environment: and- Mental Influence on Man.” This last course is intended especially to make an economic and social study of the contact’ of civilized with uncivilized races as illustrated in the “history. of colonial administration.” But far and away the most significant: change is the announcement of a three:. hour course open to Seniors, under Professors Wurts, Beers and’ Foster taking up elementary law, contracts. the law of real property and fraudulent con- veyances. This course is distinctly and specifically intended for those who wish to begin the study of law as a profession and generally in this way opportunity is gi#%n those who intend to study law to lay certain foundations for their pro- fessional course, similar to those al ready possible in medicine and some other pursuits. The course in “Jurisprudence and Law,” which is non-professional, is re- tained. This was the course in which the late Professor E. J. Phelps gave lectures in the second term. Mr. Gager and Professor W. K. Townsend will have it this year. Still another new course in this Department is that on “Comparative Politics,” under Mr. M. H. Robinson. A course in “Debates on Public Ques- tions’ is offered, but the instructor is not given. HISTORY. Professor Adams will return next year from abroad and his work will once more appear in the History Department. Two new courses are offered in the History Department by Mr. Fred- erick W. Williams. One is a two-hour course on “Ancient Oriental Nations from the Earlier Times,’ and another on ‘“Kuropean Colonies in Asia and Africa.” The latter, in connection with the work on colonial administration offered in the Political Science Department, means not a little instruction for work which the President has said that Yale should be preparing herself. Professor Smith of- fers a course in “Recent American His- tory.” __ Professor Richardson’s course on the “History of Northern Europe from the Reformation to the Death of Frederick the Great,” has been somewhat re-ar- ranged. | ean MODERN LANGUAGES The courses formerly offered by the late Professor Luquiens in French, are taken by Messrs. Sanderson and Taylor. A notable addition to the Modern Literature courses are those which Dr. Andreen will offer on his return next Fall to this country. ENGLISH. In English are a number of new courses. These include one on “Verse Composition,” by Professor Lewis; “As- pects of the Drama,’ by Professor Beers; “English Lyrical Poetry,” by Dr. Reed; “Dante in English,” by Professor Cook; “English Prose,” by Dr. Reed, and “Milton and his Contemporaries,” by Professor Beers. The course in “American Literature,” by Professor Phelps, offered in 1898-99, is again pre- sented this year. BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Professor Torrey, the new appointee in the Semitic Department, will offer for rext year a two-hour course in Assyrian, and a one-hour course called “A General Introduction to Semitic Philology.” FORESTRY One course in the Forest School, “Outlines of Forestry,” will be open to undergraduates. It is described else- where. MATHEMATICS. Among the many changes, those in the Mathematical Department are perhaps most notable. Prof. Phillips offers “Cal- culus,” and Dr. Porter “Advanced Cal- culus,” which latter leads up to courses in higher analysis and geometry. Mr. Hawkes offers courses in “Analytical Geometry” and “Higher Algebra”; Prof. Richards offers a course in “Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry,” with ap- plications of trigonometry to surveying, navigation and nautical astronomy, and also “Navigation and Nautical Astron- omy,” intended’ as a sequel to the ele- mentary course in Sophomore year. Prof. Beebe’s course in “Surveying” has Copyright, 1900, by Yale Alumni Weekly. Price 10 Cents. SOUTH MIDDLE. “AS IT WAS AND MAY BE. been broadened and he offers an entirely new course, ‘Celestial Mechanics.” Prof. Pierpont has two new courses, “Finite Groups—Galois Theory” and “Differential Equations and Function Theory”; Prof. Gibbs offers “Advanced Vector Analysis’; Dr. Gallaudet, “Ele- inentary Mathematical Physics” and Dr. Wilson, “Analytical Mechanics.” Ejigh- teen courses in all, appear in the present pamphlet where there were but ten last year. Preceding the enumeration of the courses there are a number of sugges- {ions made to aid the student in his selections. OTHER CHANGES A new Geology course, including field excursions and laboratory work, is of- fered by Dr. Gregory and Professor Williams. An important course in Classics ap- pears this year as “The Athenian Drama,” by Professors Perrin and Rey- nolds. ce ah Qe Phi Beta Kappa Banquet. The annual banquet of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held in New Haven, Wednesday, March 28. A large graduate representation is expected. Prof. John C. Schwab, ’86, will act as toastmaster. Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler, 57; Prof. Bernadotte Perrin, ’69, and Prof. Charlton M. Lewis, ’86, will re- spond to toasts. William S. Coffin, 1900, will deliver the address of welcome to the incoming members, and A. P. Wright, 1901, will respond. —__$—$§<+e4——____ Mr. Brown Recovering. Robert Brown, Secretary of the Yale Observatory, who was severely injured by a trolley car on Forty-second Street in New York about five weeks ago, is recovering as fast as can be expected, at his home in New Haven. Mr. Brown had eight ribs broken, and for two weeks was at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. ————_+eo—____ ’°61—Prof. F. B. Dexter, who has been confined to the house for some time with a bad attack of grip, is rapidly improv- ing. It will be several week before he takes up his duties again. ‘the Political Science staff, GRADUATE ELECTIVES, The Many New Courses Offered in the School—The Forestry List. The Graduate School prospectus of elective courses soon to be issued, will show many marked changes, and these will be principally in the way of addi- tions, made possible by. the return of several professors, also by additions to the staff. The notable additions of the Forestry School are recorded elsewhere. Professor Ladd, who will be back next Fall after his trip around the world, will offer again his “Introduction to Philosophy” and “Abnormal Psychol- ogy.” Professor Duncan in this Depart- ment offers a new course, “The Phil- osophy of Herbert Spencer,” and Pro- fessor Sneath another on “The History of Modern Ethics.” Other new courses in this Department include “Experimen- tal Phonetics” and “Theory of Statistics and Measurements,” by Dr. Scripture; “Lotze’s Microcosmus,’ by Dr. Green, and “Modern Philosophical German” and “French Philosophy in the Nine- teenth Century,” by Mr. Montgomery. In the Department of Economics, Social Science, History and Law, Pro- fessor Henry W. Farnam, who will be back from Europe, offers “Social Poli- tics.’ This will be a critical and his- torical study of legislation designed to better the condition of the weaker mem- bers of society, considered in its rela- tions to self-help and voluntary activity. Professor Emery, the new member of takes the place of President Hadley in the course with Professor Schwab on “Economics,” as in the Academic Department. Pro- fessor Emery’s course on “Commercial Policy” appears as in the Academic pamphlet, as well as his “History of Economic Theory.” Professor Blackman offers three courses which were not given last year, —a two-hour course in the first term on “Social Philosophy”; another, one-hour for the year, on “Anarchism, Socialism and Communism,” and a one-hour first term course on “Ethical and Social Ideals in Modern English Poetry.” Dr. Bailey’s “American Social Condi- tjon” is also offered here as also the course. by Dr. Keller on “Homeric Society” and by Dr. Gregory and Dr.
