The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-23
NEW BUILDINGS FOR YALE.


 President Hadley Tells of New Struc-
 lures Which Will be Erect led as Soon as Possible.
 At the recent meeting of the Pittsburg
 Yale Alumni association President Had
 ley gave a general outline of the build-
 ing scheme for the bi-centennial cele-
 bration. After $40O,0OO had been sub
 scribed with comparatively little eff
 fort on the part of the bi-centennial
 committee it was decided to purchase
 ground for the location of the new
 buildings. The most available ground
 was the block just west of College
 street, between Wall and Grove streets
 and this was accordingly purchased Previous to this time the university had acquired about nine -tenths of the
 block immediately north of Durfee and this, together with a part of the block west of College street. which was pur- chased last June was thought to be sufficient for site for bi-centennial building.
 By the end of the month plan for a group of buildings to be put on the sec ond lot north of the campus between the academic and scientific departments will probably be decided on as the mat ter is already in the hands of several architects for competition.
 A memorial building Of some sort will be located on the corner of Col lege and Grove street opposite the Scientific school, and one large building on College street and still another on Grove street, if there are sufficient funds. One of these structures will be an auditorium large enough to accom- modate all of Yales 2,500 students The need of such building has long been felt, as at present there is no hall in the university which will hold half of that number.
 It is also the intention of the com mittee to build a dining hall as the second building. In regard to putting the plans into architects hands, Presi- dent Hadley said:
 We are arranging this competition not merely to get plans for those build. :. ings, but also to get some plan for all the buildings of the university, by which, instead of each building being an inharmonious thing without relation U lllt OlISISt we cdI fluN6 Stilllc IbldH of building development that shall car ry us on further. These. tten, are our plans in the way of building those that are immediately before us. But, be- sidea this. we have the land and we have a crying need for more lecture halls. We arc scandalously unprovd- ed with these as we'll as some dormito- ries."
 In addition to the building plans the newly established university council of representative from the different de- partments will try to bring about some changes which will bring all the various courses into organic relations with one another At present the harmony of the different departments rests on ba- | sis of compromise between conflicting | views, but under the new regime it will | rest on a basis of reconciliation of con- | hicting views. That is to say, the | courses of the medical, law, scientific, | academic and other departments will be so arranged that there will be more unity and that a student can get more put of each department. The idea is to have a more truly elective system
 A reformation of this kind will of ,aurse take time but President Hadley believes that with little patience and great deal of persistence it can be &C.,