The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-13
OLD YALES CAREER IN 1896
FEATURES OF PRES. DWIGHT,S AN-
 NUAL REPORT.

Hail-Gfts to Yaie-Other Features.
 The annual report of President Dwight of Yale university, issued yes terday, in its opening pages discusses college the Lyceum and South Middle college-which are the remnants of the Old Brick Row. As to North Middle
 nd the Lyceum, the president thinks their permanence scarcely possible" and that the question of the removal of South Middle college, which has been opposed by many alumni, is the only one which involves any element of his toric interest. While, in the presidents opinion, the matter may be left to the time when the building will be the only survivor of the Old Brick Row, he sug- gests that the time is not far away when the new buildings will be old ones for living graduates and when the memories of the open square will be more full of satisfaction than those of certain rooms they once occupied. The president thus hints strongly that South Middle, the oldest of the Brick Row, must go in due time, and with it the treasury building-the old Trumbull gallery-when new offices are provided for the corporations officers.
 The president forecasts also the time when the old Alumni hall must be su- perseded by new structure containing lecture rooms, or possibly by dormi- tory, and then any new alumni hall will have to be placed outside the col lege square and be large and costly building. This bears indirectly on the Lampson bequest for the purpose, which, however, is not referred to by the president, as his report covers only the year 1896.
 Attention is called to the fact that sixty-four different institutions of learning are now represented in the Graduate schools and to the connection with it of thirteen graduate clubs In reference to this branch and others, the president emphasizes the need of build ings specially devoted to particular studies, thus centralizing the branches and departments. In connection with the subject of graduate fellowships and scholarships, the president approves of new ones of a purely honorary charac- ter-that is, with no money income, in some cases given to young men educat- ed elsewhere. These, he thinks, will be especially valued by rich young men. He predicts much closer relations here after between the graduate and under graduate departments.
 After referring to the success of the teachers course and the increase of lN.. .s~ rsL,, IL T ommends the establishment of depart mental libraries on the general plan of that of the Classical club, and refers to what he terms an "infelicity'' of the elective system. This is the separation of members of a class into several de- partments and under different instruc- tors. One result of it Is that it is diffi- cult to discover what is the real rank in scholarship of student, and hence he suggests that in place of the old sys- tenn of commencement appointments such appointments should be arranged in groups without any designation of individual men as first, second and third, and that also a system of hon. orary fellowships form part of the graduate honors-such honorary fellow ships being given only to scholars of the highest rank Grouped appoint ments and honorary fellowships would thus displace the old plan of individual appointments in order of scholarships. which for so many years has been a feature of Yale commencements.
 In the Sheffield Scientific school there has been decided growth in the num- Der of courses, in the library and in scientific apparatus. The next move ment must be in the direction of new building for the department of physio- logy and morphology, and hopes are ex- pressed that funds will be supplied within a. year Attention is called to the fact that this year is the Both since the school was in effect begun by a small class of young men under Prof. Silliman and others. Exercises to eel ebrate the anniversary are recommend ed to the governing board of the school.
 Among new features and other de- partments are noted the total gifts to the law school by John W. Hendrie, amounting to $25,O00. His last gift of s10, ,OoO is to be used for the front sec tion of the law building. Another gift, now IlrSL dnnOuUCeu, IS OIle illdue u IilC law school last December by donor who conceals his name. It is fund of $12,600, to be designated as the fund of 1896. the income to be used for general purposes of the department. The med- ical school has received the fund of S25, 5,O00 from the widow of Dr. D. K. Hunt of Hartford The president says a new medical school building to cost from $35, ,000 to $40000 is now impera- tive, and that the school has reached a point where contributions will be ex- ceptionally useful. He repeats his ur- gent recommendation of last year in favor of a school of architecture in con- nection with the art school, to be mod elIed on the plan of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and to occupy building with equipment to cost S250,000. W. J. Connor of the class of 1890 is the donor of the ancient glacial pot hole which has been placed in front of the Peabody museum. The sum of $100000 added to that already held by the trustees will pay for the erection of the central and main edifice of which the present mu- scum Is to be the wing.
 The transfer of the Sloane bequest to the library raises it's fund to more than e20n 0nO bI1t ceyera1 hundred tbouSaOd