New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-17
YOUNG U1RVARU.

"ThOse two twins of learning" Harvard and
| Yale, are running the race OF renewed youth
with much vvacity. Under the head OF
"Young Yale" The TRIBUNE called attention,
few months since, to the affairs OF that
thriving institution. The latest news from
Young Harvard is brought to lis in the An
nual Catalogue for 1912, in the Presidents
report, Just published, and in that of the
| "Academical Examining Committees" the lat
ter being printed in the January Old and New.
These several authorities tell in many re-
spects the same tale of activity and progress,
and mt some points supplement each other.
The President gives the official information
the Academical Committee afford independent
criticism and the Catalogue adds the mex
Orabe test of statistics, and exhibits some
things which the others pass by. President
| Eliot says not a word for instance as to that
very important experiment, the University
| Lectures. and it is left for the Catalogue to
| point out that they are attended by only 20
this year-about as many pupils as lecturers
against 15J last year. These lectures, like all
efforts to establish postgraduate courses. are
| important by way of experiment; the facts OF
failure are often as useful as those of success;
and it is pity that the Catalogue alone
should be left to tell the tale
The whole number of pupils in Harvard
College (the academical Department. is this
| year G19, against last years Cos. The whole
number of students included in the SUM
"maryn is 1.1O8, against last years 1915.
| Some criticism has been made by the press on
| this diminutiOn; but the Presidents report
| gives most honorable explanation for part,
| at least of the loss There has been great
| elevation of grade in the whole medical de-
| partment of the University, so that it has
now become, it seems, not merely course of
lectures, but of systematic study. Medical
students, like other students, will hereafter be
| expected to stick to their work for the year
round, at least in the Harvard School; there
will be three years course; much laboratory
work will be demanded; and there will be u
| thorough written examination at the end of
the three years. This involves. as President
Eliot we'll says, "a complete revolution in the
System of medical education in America.
at throws the school out of long established
connections with the other medical schools
"of the country" 1t is, in short, noble
effort in the direction of higher education and
that it should only have reduced the number
of medical students, during the first year Of
| the experiment., lIOm OVi W LOU, ouOWs tiidl
the public is ready for the change, and that
the University has tho public confidence.
This diminution. with that in the department
of university Lectures" accounts for the
temporary falling off in the total number Of
students.
That the last year has been rich in dona-
tons for Harvard, need hardly be said; the
current sets that way. Weld Hall and
Matthews Hall are finished, as is the Botanic
Garden Conservatory; and Mr.. Cyrus Wake
| field proposes to erect a building in the
| College yard for lccture-rOOms and literary
societies. There is to be also laboratory of
physiology for the Medical School. Scholar
ships have been founded by Mrs. Eliza Farrar
| and others; while the Hon. George Bancroft
has established travelling fellowship" the
recipient of whose income shall study in
Europe or elsewhere, under the direction of
the University authorities. The Holmes estate,
near the College buildings, has been bought
| for future uses, at cost of S55,O0O-nearly
half of this coming from private cOntribu-
tons. But the most triumphant feat per-
formed by President Eliot in the way of
financiering, though not stated by him, is
mentioned in the Treasurers report, as
abridged in The Boston journal: The excess
"of this years general expenses over the re-