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THE CHOICE OF ELECTIVES.
President Hadley’s Advice to Fresh-
men—Callings in Life Classified.
President Hadley gave a half-hour’s
talk to the Freshman Class, Monday,
March 19, on the choice of Sophomore
electives, and pointed out, with the aid
of a blackboard diagram, what he con-
sidered the best courses to take to reach
certain definite ends. He emphasized
very strongly the point that the principle
in the choice of electives should be one
of order, and said that because a man
did not elect chemistry, for instance, in
Sophomore year, it should not be taken
tc mean that he was not going into that
subject at all, but rather, that he would
take it up later on in his course.
The President began by dividing the
pursuits of life which the students were
likely to follow into these three general
divisions: Scientific, the study of ob-
jects; aesthetic, the study of books; ethi-
cal, the study of affairs. _ the modern
scientific man,” said he, “to make the
most of himself, must have a reading
knowledge of both French and German,
because it is only by such means that
he can be informed promptly of what is
being done all over the world. For the
man who means to take up the study of
medicine after his academic course,
chemistry in Sophomore year is a neces-
sity, and the chief reason for putting it
there was to enable him and those who
are going into general science, to have
two years of chemistry instead of one.”
For those who desired to go into the
productive industry, the President ad-
vised the study of physics, saying that
in his opinion it should come before the
study of chemistry rather than after it.
For those who wished to go into en-
gineering and architecture, where the
higher forms of mathematics were neces-
sary, the course in mathematics in Soph-
more year had been doubled, which
means to stich men a gain of a whole
year.
To the men who looked forward to
teaching, he recommended a general con-
tinuation of the classical studies of the
earlier years, with specializing at the end
rather than at the beginning of the col-
lege course. In preparation for the
ministry his advice was for the study of
German, because so much of the critical
writings of the present time were in
that tongue that it was almost indis-
pensable. Besides German, he urged
the continued study of Greek along with
history, constitutional: law and the gen-
eral principles of law, as far as the rela-
tions of man to man were concerned.
lifes men who are aiming for a literary
ife
means study the French language closely,
for it is the one modern language
which has a style. Style counts nowa-
days for a great deal, more than it should
perhaps, and a man who hopes to suc-
ceed must be able to build a style for
himself. For the converse reason, I
should advise against making a special
study of German, which will not help
you in style-building, as its sentences are
cumbersome and demoralizing.” He
was very particular to point out to men
going into letters the importance of keep-
ing a tight hold on the ancient languages.
For the journalists or newspaper men,
whose business was with the gathering
and presentation of facts, the President:
thought that German took more than
equal rank with French, and advised its
study, along with history, which would
be found of great assistance. For those
who were going on to general business,
he advised a diversified course. To the
men who were shaping themselves for
a career in the law, the President said:
“Whatever else you do, continue your
course in Latin, and it would be still
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better if you could add to that, mathe-
matics or Greek or both. In law you
must have that fundamental thing, train-
ing in principles. I would advise that
in Sophomore year you take at least
three courses, not entertainment courses,
which would make it an absolute neces-
sity for you to acquire a habit of work
for their accomplishment. Such a habit
of work is of incalculable value to the
lawyer, who must on short notice martial
a great array of facts.for a particular
case, which, when used, must be as soon
forgotten. I consider that the best
preparation you can have for the profes-
sion of law is training, and for that
training the best things are Latin, Greek
and mathematics.
In regard to English, which the
President left to the last, he said the
choices had good and bad possibilities,
which would depend on the judgment of
the men themselves and whether they
had the proper stimulus in their hearts.
He advised those men, and only those
men, whose real interest in the subject
is so great that they can make it more
than a classroom subject, to take Eng-
lish.
In conclusion, the President expressed
his confidence in the continuation of the
serious purpose in choosing electives that
had always marked Yale men, and his
belief in the success of the new Saph.
omore electives.
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Forestry and the Colleges.
The following is from a recent bulle-
tin of the Division of Forestry: “Some
interesting facts regarding the attitude
of the various colleges toward the com-
paratively new profession of forestry in
the United States are shown by the appli-
cations for the position of Student-
Assistant in the Division of Forestry.
This grade, which was created last Sum-
mer, is an innovation in departmental
methods. A number of young men, who
have decided to make forestry their
vocation, are employed during the Sum-
mer at $25 a month and their expenses.
They work under experts and receive
practical instruction, while the Govern-
ment secures intelligent assistance at little
cost. Last Summer there were but 35
applications for this position. This year,
although three months remain before
field work will begin, over 160 have al-
ready applied. Forty of these are Yale
men, mostly undergraduates; Cornell
and the University of Minnesota have
each 11, Harvard, 23, and the Biltmore
Forest School, 3. The remainder of the
applicants represent several different
schools and some are not college men.
Timbered parts of the United States,
singularly, do not furnish as many forest
students as the more thickly settled dis-
tricts. There are but three applicants
from west of the Mississippi. On the
other hand, the interest at Yale is so
great that a school of forestry probably
will be established there this Fall.”
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