New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-26
EdE NEW TERM AT YALE.

OF THE NEW CLAssEs-A RADICAL CHANGE OF
SYSTEM NTRoDUCED-FRUIT OF THE wooLsEY
FUND-A NEW HALL OCCUPIED AND TWO OTHER
BUILDINGS RIsING-THE GRADUATE COURSES.
[FRox AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSEI
NEw-HAvEN, Sept. 17.-Yale's 175th acade-
mic year opened week ago to-day. In the Academi-
cal Department 2Oi applied for admission Freshmen
and about 10 for advanced standing; while at the
Sheffield Scientific school-the other undergraduate
section OF the Universities applied at the June exam
nations and others September that the total app
both sections considerably exceeded 800 The
conventional belief that Yale, while hard TO stay IN Is
easy to enter is year by year becoming less true as
glance at the entrance examination papers may con-
vince even very young alumnus. Within five years
the entrance academic examinations, which were readily
passed in day. and largely oral, have becoDe Gu
rey written, occupy days, and have greatly in
creased in severity The result of this is seriously to
compcate estimates the eventual size Of classes
but when the conditions in both sections made up
the Academic Freshmen will NUMBER not lar ron l75'
and the Scientific Freshmen not far from 81, making
total Of about 1885, against 2s for the corresponding
classes last year. college paper publishes entrance
which 1885, but these will be seriously cut
down In the professional schools the entrances are
about as usual, and will be considerably increased by
later arrivals, but it hardly be amiss 10 estimate
from last years total Of 955 students for all departments
that this year it will reach 1000
noteworthy change in the plan of instruction OF the
Freshman class made this year, which is delight
full surprise everybody. heretofore the class has
been divided four divisions and each division has
gone successfully any given instructor, he hearing
the four divisions in the lesson, repeating the
process with the next lesson, and so on The process
was a slow one and the size OF the divisions seriously
nterfered with thoroughness. BY the new plan there
are duplicate instructors in each study and the class Is
divided into two sections. each Of which is divided into
subsections, which in successor to It's sections
instructor in any given branch Instead, also OF TAX
ing studies time, only three are taken-or the
present, Greek odyssey, Latin Nyyl, Mathematics
lEucd-so that more time ID given to each branch as
well fuller recitatl0n-room work For TINS change
which it is ultimately intended To extend, with mod
ncatiOns the upper casses-the college Is indebted
to the woolsey fund.- the first income OF which is re-
ceved this year. and being applied TO certain general
expenses releases for the employment OF additional in-
structors funds amounting 10 about $4,000 and hereto
fore diverted from their original purpose This fund.-
the collection OF which begun in 1871 in honor of
President WOolsey who that year resigned his position
aud which is designed reach 100000 happily begins
to yield results within the lifetime Of that eminent
scholar and in directions toward which he endeaVOred
from the first 10 bring the College.
The new chapel, which will give splendid finish to
the northeast corner OF the slowly rising quadrangle OF
new buildings pushed rapidly forward, and Will soon
be ready for its roof. To adapt the campus TO the
quadrangle pau the grade 1t and Farnam Hall has
been considerably raised during the vacation, and
very tasteful buestone front with archng windows has
been supplied to the basement story Of that building
The drainage OF the campus has also been improved
Work on the north section the great Peabody Museum
recently described at length in THE TRIBUNE-bas
already made much progress, and the click OF stone
dressing and the shouts OF workmen both buildings
are enliyening interruptions of scholastic quiet.
The Divinity School takes possession OF its second new
hall this September which almost an Improvement on
that opened IN 1870. As the hight between joints on
the first floor required FOR ecturerooms except at
the south end the great corridor the room correspond
ing 70 the library in the other building will be devoted
the very choice and extensive musical library collected
by the late Dr. Lowell Mason and now the property OF the
school, Sixteen "studIes are thus gained TO the build
ING over the I'D hall, and the two buildings aggregate
1qt studies" all OF which heated by steam lighted
nv gas and ventilated on an improved method. The
new features OF the year 10 the school WI De t9e oecu-
nancy Oh the Lyman Beecher lectureshp on Preach
ing" by the Rev. DR.. John Han OF New-fOrk course
81 lectures by Mr. Beecher The Lessons 10 be Drawn
from the Distinctive Merits or the DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN
DENOMINATIONS; :" and course by Prot julius IL Seely
OF Amherst College on Missions ana the heASiohs OF
Tie graduate courses, which are among the least
known and valuable features OF Tue university,
give promise OF good attendance during The year III
was upon their being planned out three or TOUR years
ago and especially the departments Of history, pot
cal ecOuomv and English literature, and the fact OF sew
eral men WHO intended entering journalism remaining
pursue those studies that the phrase iae sehoo Of
iected though certain Of the would De nvaua
bile In Journalists training. Some difficulty In working
the courses experienced from the disparity OF attain
meuts among those entering them, graduates having an
immense advantage over men OF limited opportunities.
II is hoped that eventually separate courses ag 1e
mapped out that the needs OF each radc OF STUDENTS
may be more dlstlnctiYely met
THE WEATHER PREDICTIONS GENERALLY AC