Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-05
YALE NOTES.
Post Graduate Courses - Two Hun.
 dred and Forty-Nine Of Them Of-

YALE NOTES.
 lost Graduate Courses - Two Hun. dred and Forty.Nine of Them Of- 1ered. -..-. The pamphlet of courses of graduate in truction has just been issued. Two hun fred and forty-nine courses are offered, which is an increase of thirty eight over sst year. Nearly all of the departments nave been strengthened by the addition of new courses, and many new branches have been substituted for the old. The principal changes are as follows: In the department of philosophy Professor Ladd offers new courses in philosophical anthropology, the the philosophical system, and the theory of knowledge. Professor Duncan intro duces a course in advanced psychology, and Dr. Sheath adds a second course of two hours on the history of philosophy, In psychology Dr. Scripture offers two new laboratory courses, and the courses in clements of psycho- physics, and in psychological optics are dropped. Dr. Buchner offers three additional courses in philosophy, and Dr. Fairbanks opens to graduate students in philosophy three additional Divinity school courses. In political and social science and history, Professor Sumner offers new course in politics and finance in the his tory of the United States; Professor Had ley offers two new courses in economies; and thoee under Dr. Schwab have been slightly changed. Dr. Reynolds also offers a new course in constitutional govern ment. In history, Professor Wheeler offers two new courses; Professor Adams offers an investigation course in European his tory; and Professor Fisher of the Divinity school, offers course on general church history. In oriental languages and bib- Heal literature the courses remain practically the same. In classical philolegy Dr. Oertel offers new course in Greek dialects, and Professor Seymour offers four new courses in Homer, and in the Greek tragedians. Changes have also been made in the courses offered by Pro- fessors Reynolds and Perrin, several new ones being added to the supply those for merly given by Professor Clapp. The number of courses in modern languages remain in the main the same, although many changes have been made. In Eng 1ish new course is offered by Dr. Phelps OA tA0 1IllLaU0buhA u1oA6s LII LILO udguIdA sciences courses are offered by two new instructors, Mr. Wakeman and MT. Howe. The mathematical courses are practically the same.
 The graduate faculty Is composed of ffty-one professors and twenty-six in structors.
 A SOLEMN WEEKLY CoNCLAvE. The following editorial appeared in the Yale News of yesterday:
 The Lit board has announced that an hour o one afternoon each week will in future be set fol consultation between the editors and the contrib utors. This will be something in the nature of pc te it disinterested and earnest; it's literary quality his own classmates for an opinion. One two years experience in writing for the Lit. canno make fully equipped and competent teache forced to this action; first by the misera | ble quality and unf1tness of the contribu fact that the college currlculum offers no oppor tunity for the correction of thls state of affairs The faculty appreciate this need and regret 1t done. and in the present overworked state of tn \ English department composition must go to tn
 viii II ao 0e % ter n o1 ! ment the work of the regular instructors. w
 see no reason why the Courant should not folio, ! their example.
 | oShOOL h1CHH11AA AAho.
 The following members of the divinit,
 school have been licensed to preach by tn
 New Haven Central association: Samue
 Mel. Cathcart, Northheld, Mass. Evor
 Evans, Kingston, Pa; Henry T. Fowler
 Pou9bkeepsie. N. Y.; Everett D. Francis
 West Hartford, Conn. Lathrop o. Grant
 Harry L. Hsrtweu. Newton Highlands
 Mass !; John J. Hjetlsnd, Lsons, Kan
 John O. Jones, Dublin, Ireland; F C
 Krause, Northield, Mass; John W. Rice
 istown, Me-; Charles s. Thsyer, Westfield
 Mass.
 SUCCESSFUL YALE MAN.
 Yesterday Stuart H. Rowe of Yale g
 started for Germany, where he is to ava
 himself of prjzs scholarship in the Gel
 man university. MT. Rowe was g hig
 stand man of his class and was one of th
 most popular students at Ysls during hl
 four years' course. He won 8 valusbl
 scholarship which carried him throug
 Columbia law school without cost to hin
 self. He was high stand man in tn school during the entire course and graduation won the prize which now cause
 him to visit Germany.
 He is son of Henry B. Rowe of Academy street, one of New Hsven's mol
 respected citizens. The young mans abi ity and we'll directed ambition have mad has thus far undertaken. That other SUI cesses await him there can be no question MAY BE HELD AT BATTELL-oTHER NSTEs C INTEREST.
 As Battell chapel, with its 400 new si tings, has now, according to the president
 report, seating capacity larger than tn, 1 of any church edifce in the city, it seen not unlikely that commencement exercis. may bs held there instead of in Csntt church. President Dwight says that Alum
 nj hall is so contracted that 1t must 500 interfere seriously with the success ( commencement dinner has, in fact, becon
 so great already that a movement to obtai
 8 great reunion building seems pretty ce tain to be made in the near future. A significant part of the presidents r port is his reference to the developmen
 numerically and otherwise, of the "un
 versity idea" Since 1886 when the nam
 of the institution was changed from Va, college to Yale university. the gradual department has risen from 42 to 143, th
 law and medical schools have three time
 the numbers they had in 1886, and the ec
 entiio school has increased from 251 [ | oo1' Aho uniSc1siSys ouSoiuo sao ucoueu
 department, now contains 1,116 stud .nt,
 while the academic department has
 0s6. The president calls specia. alter
 ton to the needs of the lltersr
 to meet the requirements of E
 large university. its fund nc
 yet reaching $l00, 900, though it contain
 l65 900 volumes. while the society hbrs
 ries add some 35,OO0 more. It Is we
 known here that the library would t
 greatly hampered but for the skill an
 economies of Professor Van Name, espet
 ially in the purchases of new books.
 0. B. Bliss, Yale instructor in psyohole
 gy, has resigned to accept an assistant pro
 fessorship in the some subject at the Un
 versity of the City of New York.
 Death of stephen Rembert. Stephen Rembsrt, father of John Rem
 bert of this city, died in Georgetown,s s. O
 last Monday. He formerly lived in Wa
 lingford and was large real estate owne