Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-25
YaIe's Record for the Year.

Progress and Condition of the Various
 Departments.
 The annual printed report issued yester- day says: This year has been a year of pros perity and progress.
 The college has provided ''Ioen library of political economy" to facilitate the new plan of studying political economy by topics, in- troduced this year. To establish this library the following gentlemen contributed $95O: G Wetmore, J NJ Sears, H F Dimock, W H Fuller, H W Farnam, A Taylor, w c Whitney, c Sloane, J F Kernochan, G B Fsrnam, Mason Young, D Csdy Eaton and Geo St John Sheffield. Eight books were loaned to each member of the optional class in advanced political economy, which con- sisted of 90 members. Over $2OO worth of the books have been bought by the students out of tho library. The sum thus obtained is held to replace the same books next year.
 The gift of a sum of money from William Pollock, of the class of 1882, for the purchase of mathematical models, and a contribution of very finished and ingenious models and other apparatus of his own construction by Dr. William Hillhouse of New Haven, have NoSAohSN D66n making for several years to introduce new methods into the teaching of mathematics.
 The report speaks of Professor Dexter's forthcoming installment of Yale's history. of gift of $5O,O00 for a new dormitory by MT. and Mrs. Francis Lawrence of New York, in memory of their son, the late Thomas Garner Lawrence, who was of this years graduating class; of the examinations in French and German to be required next nrnl # . appointment to the chair of civil engineer ing, occupied by the late lamented Professor Norton, and Professor Hastings appointment to the chair of physics; of Professor Cyrus Northrop's resignation.
 The number of students in the s. S. S. during the current year has been 2I3, the highest number reached for a long period, They represent twenty five States and ter rltorles. The report says. however, that to keep the school up to it's present standard more money is absolutely necessary.
 The additions to the library during the past year have been as follows: Ordinary purchases for the college library, S,325 vol umes, for the Linonian and Brothers library $50 volumes; purchases made at the sale of the Cooke library, 2,1OO volumes; gifts, 2,25O volumes and 2, 45O pamphlets: making total of 8,625 volumes and 2,45O panph, let's.
 The total number of volumes obtained as d.. J Cooke, of Providence, was about 3. 900. most valuable addition to the resources of the library.
 The additions to the Peabody museum for the past year have consisted mostly of verte- brate fossils, principally dinosaurs and mammals, collected by various parties in the West, under the direction of the curator. Casts of the most important vertebrate fos- sils are being made and distributed to vari- ous museums both in this country and in Europe.
 Important additions have also been made during the year to the sociological and arch ssological collections
 The past year has been an important one in the history of the mineraIoRical depart ment of the museum, for the additions to the cabinet have been of much more than usual interest First among these must be men, tioned the very valuable collection of Chinese curios bequeathed to the mineral cabinet by the late Dr. s. Wells Williams.
 Another very important addition to the mineral cabinet is @ collection of specimens of stibnite, or antimony glances from the island of Shikoku, Japan.
 The income and expenditures of the aca- demic department as reported, for the year ending July 30, 1883, showed that the total income was $158, 588. 32 and the total expenditures $155, 269. 46. Among the in come items were: From term bill of stu dents, $1O9, sos 58; professorship funds and funds for instruction, SIS, ,547. AS; scholar ship and gratuity funds, $9, ,0987O; dona- were: For instruction in academical depart ment, including salaries of president, profes- sors and tutors, $s6, ,664; gratuitous aids,