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New Haven, Conn., AuGcust, 1900.
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that the training of the free citizen is
not so much a development of certain
lines of knowledge as a development
of certain essential qualities of charac-
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cipline and loftiness of purpose are the
things really necessary for maintaining
a free government.—President Hadley in
August Atlantic.
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THE NEXT PAPER.
The August isstie of the WEEKLY is
intended to divide about evenly the time
between the Commencement issue, which
closes the record of the College year,
and the September issue, which is a pre-
face to the record of another year. The
next issue of the WEEKLY will appear a
few days before the opening of College.
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MONEY FOR DEBATE.
The gift to Yale of $5,000 for debate,
by Mr. John W. Hendrie, Yale ’51, adds
one to a long list of generous bene-
factions from this loyal Yale man. It
will attract a great deal of attention and
result in immense satisfaction to the
friends of Yale. It recognizes a very
great need, and will result we have no
doubt, when its form is finally fixed, in
some very effective method of making
Yale a better training place for platform
service.
SEER ac eae
THE LOCATION OF SOUTH MIDDLE.
According to a newspaper interview, a
suggestion has been made by Mr. Wal-
lace Bruce, of the Class of Sixty-Seven,
favoring the retention of South Middle,
but also sanctioning the scheme of trans-
planting it to the new Campus. We re-
call the very sturdy defense of the build-
ing which Mr. Bruce made at one of the
Commencement dinners and with what
enthusiasm it was met. In this recol-
lection, we are all the more surprised
that Mr. Bruce could think of such a
thing as transplanting South Middle, of
Yale College, of the old Yale Campus,
of the Brick Row, of the original and
hallowed square, to some ~. modern,
frontier post of University growth.
Why, pray, should South Middle, of all
things on the Campus, be evicted? It
belongs there. Its title is clear. It has
helped for nearly 150 years to make the
Campus, by the life which it has shel-
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tered and by the memories which it has
held. It seems to us a contradiction in
terms to save South Middle by trans-
planting it. As well think of preserving
the New Haven Green by exchanging it
for a plot of land in the outskirts of the
city. South Middle is a great part of
Yale and belongs where it always has
been.
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JOIN AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
The men who went out of the
various departments of Yale this year
ought to make it their first duty on
settling in their business or in their
professional work, even though they are
locating themselves for only a year or
two, to communicate with the secretary
of the alumni association in whose dis-
trict they find themselves, and to join
that association at once. It will do
them good; it will do Yale good. It
is an inexpensive step and ought not
to be omitted by any loyal Yale gradu-
ate. In case any are at a loss to know
the address of the secretary of the asso-
ciation which they wish to join, they are
invited to communicate with this office.
It will be a pleasure to supply them
with any information in our possession.
Ge. An ge
AN IDEAL PROFESSOR.
William Garrott Brown writes for
the June number of the Harvard Grad-
uate Magazine, under the title, “An Op-
portunity,’ an article on the possibili-
ties of the new professorship of govern-
ment, established at Harvard by gift of
the late Dorman B. Eaton. Speaking of
the department of history and _ politics,
he says:
“At Harvard, as at other American
and German universities, the scientific
motive and method are now completely
in the ascendant in those departments.
The search for origins, the laboratory
devices for collecting and handling ma-
terial, the rigid adherence to such con-
clusions as can be drawn from careftilly
verified facts, the distrust and disuse
of conjecture, sympathy, imagination—
these characteristics of purely scientific
inquiry are all exhibited in our class-
rooms and seminaries of history and poli-
tics. The professors of those subjects
try to treat them as the botanist or the
physicist treats his: they make no ap-
peal to students, no demands upon them,
that are essentially different from the ap-
peal and the demands of science.”
And this is his ideal for the new chair:
“A professor chosen for his power and
breadth of mind, and not for any exhi-
bition of mere intelligent industry, for
his capacity of ample thought and his
gift of expression, and then manumitted
from the slavery that comes of judging
professorial work by too quantitative a
test, might, I conceive, fill a place here
long and unhappily vacant. He would
surely find among the student body ears
eager for his larger words, eyes that are
ever ready to flash and glow with “the
light that never was, on. sea or land.”
He would have for his theme quite the
most stupendous fact and problem of
modern civilization, and for his hearers
an exceptional body of American youth.
Working along the lines of our present
endeavor, he could scarcely hope to do
more than guide a few into special in-
quiries and train the rest into a matter-
of-fact way of looking at history and at
public questions. Attempting a larger
treatment of his subject and a more
human attitude towards them, he might
indeed fail altogether, for this is not
work for commonplace men or a hope-
ful enterprise for any sodden industry.
But he might also ennoble his subject;.
he might become to his hearers a voice
like those Matthew Arnold heard at Ox-
ford,—the voice of the stately traditions
of a great university, stirring to patriotic
ardors ‘the free spirit of young Ameri-
cans; he might make to them what
seems a fairer return than any with
which the University now compensates
them for so many hours of their golden
youth.”
The ideal is not too high for the
occupant of such a chair. And it is
not only in history and politics that
such teachers should be sought. They
make a college or a university. Without
such men, whatever else the place has,
it is poor.
SELF HELP AT YALE.
If anyone has been troubled by stories
of the growing “domination” of rich
men at Yale, we beg leave to refer him
to the extract from the report of Henry
P. Wright, Dean of the Academic
Faculty, printed elsewhere in this issue.
Prof. Wright speaks on the authority of
most close observation and with testi-
mony of facts and figures in his sup-
port. What he says of the College is
equally true of the other great under-
graduate course of the Scientific School.
The appointment of Mr. Cornelius P.
Kitchel, Yale ’97, to a new position,
whose principal work will be to organize
and to make available all the opportuni-
ties for self-help for students at Yale,
is an official recognition of the import-
ance attached by Yale to the attend-
ance of students who have the spirit
and the energy to work their own way,
and also indicates how large that class
has become.
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The Yale Education.
The Ailantic Monthly continues its
matter of special interest to university
men by its leading article for August
from President Arthur T. Hadley, on
“Political Education.” Extracts from it
are given elsewhere. It presents a very
broad platform for college teaching and
shows the responsibility of such an in-
stitution as Yale to her country in a
clearer and more impressive way than
we have ever seen it stated before.
In the educational number of the Jn-
dependent Professor John C. Schwab of
Yale writes on the future of this Uni-
versity. He is optimistic and liberal...
He looks for greater things to be done
by the Yalé of the future than the Yale
of the past could have accomplished, but
counts it necessary to that end that the
good ways of “old Yale’ shall not be
lost. He lays particular emphasis on the
necessity of common interests among the
students which shall call out the best
that is in them in devotion to some
cause that is not so much for their indi-
vidual advancement as for the common
good.
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Preachers in Batiell Chapel.
The supply of the College pulpit for
the coming year will be in charge of a
committee consisting of President Had-
ley and Rev. Dr. Palmer (representing
the Corporation), and Prof. Seymour
and Dean Wright (representing the Col-
lege Church). Mr. Stokes has been
chosen Clerk of the Committee.
Dr. Taylor Leaves.
Dr. Robert L. Taylor, who has been
connected with the French Department
at Yale for the past six years, resigned
his position this Commencement, and
accepted an appointment as Assistant
Professor of Romance Languages at
Dartmouth. Professor Taylor was at
the High School for a number of years
before he came to Yale.
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Dr. Henry Wade Rogers.
Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, formerly
President of the Northwestern Univer-
sity has been appointed lecturer on
Equity and Contracts in the Yale Law
School and will begin his work in the
School with the beginning of the Fall
term. Dr. Rogers resigned from the
Northwestern University early in June.
Before his connection with Northwest-
ern he was Dean of the Law Depart-
ment of the University of Michigan.
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Increase of the Library.
[From Mr. Van Name's Report.]
The total accessions of the Library
during the eighteen months since the last
report amount to 21,530 volumes and
16,250 pamphlets. The purchases, 1n-
cluding 890 volumes placed in the Lino-
nian and Brothers Library, have been
12,030 volumes. The remaining 9,500
volumes and the pamphlets were gifts.
Only once before, in 1896, when both
the Riant Scandinavian collection and
the Curtius library were received, has
so large an aggregate of gifts been re-
ported.
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