The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-20
YALE MAKES A PROTEST
1GAINST THE PROPOSED REMOVAL
OF BOOKS FROM THE FREE LIST.

Sent by President Dwight and Members
of the Faculty to the House of Repre-
entatives-strength Tests at Yale and
Observation-Disclosures of Yale Corporation
to be Elected June 20.
The following protest and petition
has been forwarded to the house of rep
resentatives, signed by President
Dwight and nearly all the members of
the faculties OF Yale university, no one
to whom it was presented refusing his
name
To the House of Representatives of the
United States:
The undersigned, the president and
members of the several faculties of
Yale university, respectfully submit to
your honorable body the following con-
siderations against the proposed remoV-
al from the free list of books, phlosoph-
ical apparatus, etc, specially imported
for the use of colleges, public libraries
and other Incorporated institutions
paragraphs 413, $685.
1-Such action would be at variance
with the uniform policy of the govern
ment in the past. Under every tariff
act, from 1889 to 1894, books for such
use have been admitted free. The same
is true of philosophical apparatus, with
single exception. A small duty was
imposed in 1864, during the stress of
war, and removed in the first general
revision after its close. There would
be, we submit, just ground for surprise
We're this time-honored policy to be re-
versed now, at a time when our indus
tries, already revolutionized by the re-
cent discoveries and new applications
of science, must look to her aid for
their further development,
2-The government is now paying to
the colleges for agriculture and the
mechanic arts, established in the sew
eral states under the land grants of
1862, annuities which are to be perpetu-
al and amount in the aggregate to 81,
100000 year. We find it impossible to
reconcile with this praiseworthy pat
ronage of higher education the indirect
tax which the proposed legislation
would impose both on the institutions
of the governments own creation and
those established by the free gifts of
generous friends of learning.
3-Upon our free public libraries, al
ready among the most valuable of our
educational agencies and rapidly grow
ing in numbers and usefulness, the in
creased cost of necessary books would
be a serious burden. 1t would abridge
to that extent their capacity to serve
the public
4-Within the present generation our
public libraries have received, in gifts
for buildings and endowments, not less
than $25, O0O, 000-in the state Oh Massa-
chusetts alone S. 600 00G Still larger
have been the gifts to our institutions
of higher education. Anything which
should tend to check the flow and dry
I'D the sources of these gifts would
bring serious loss to the country, which
is the common beneficiary of these
most beneficent charities, We are not
Wlthout apprehension tiiat tne plopoS-
,o-,,;t,a ,,a,,,e+ ,,,hiol coils
.oor,,a ~ tho +raas envy fron, tho dutias
~ hooks e+c now axamntad would
il tba indemant of vonr natitioners he
far outweiehed nv the iniurv inflicted
IN tba cause of ed,,cation
For these reasons We resnectf11lv ash,
that the provisions contained in nara.
aranhs Ala and 5s5 of the present law
NAV he left undisturbed.
A MEMRER OF THE CORPORATION
Secretary Franklin B. Dexter Of the
cornoration of Yale university has sent
ia alumni of FIVE or more years stand.
ing a, notice of an election to be hello
June 20 of a successor to Edward G.
Mason Of Chicago at present a mem.
her Of the CORPORATION. whose term ex.
hires this coming summer. Accompa
nvine, the notice are nomination blanks
it being intended that the names of al
persons who are nominated by as many
as twenty-five electors, shall be an
nounced as soon as possible after May
/ in a circular sent to electors with {
form of ballot.
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