The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-17
HADLEY'S PLANS FOR YALE.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY ON
THE NEW BUILDINGS SCHEME.
Tells tho Pitt.purR Alumni What Has Been
Done and What IL Contemplated In the
Way of New structures-Changes In the
Mansgement of Courses of Study.

Tells tho Pittsburg Alumni What Has Been
Done and What IL Contemplated In the
Way of New Structures-Changes in the
MANAGEMENT of Courses of Study.
New HAVEN. Nov. 17.-Yales building plans.
the general scheme OF the Bi-Centennal Cclc-
bra.ion. and some things about the memorial
structure that Is to emphasize tho University's
centennial have been made public ty Presi-
dent Hadley in n formal address to the Yale
graduates in Pitfsburg. 1t lis regarded by Yale
men everywhere as most important official
utterance on the future policy o the develop
ment OF the University. President Hadley
says:
with regard to tho extension OF tho Uni
yersity in the matter Of buildings. you are
aware that large part OF the programme for
1901 contempIates the construction Of certain
buildings. II some OF our friends here in Pitts
burg keep putting the prices OF iron up. We
can hardly construct those buildings before
1901. but we still hope and shall rclY greatly
on the Yale Alumni Association Of Pittsburg
to prevent Pittsburg people from taking out
side contracts that would interfere with the
construction Of those buildings within the
proper time. Last summer. when l first be-
came intimately acquainted with the matter.
things stood In this shape: Some subscrip-
tons had been made In u few quarters
to a bi-centcnnal fund. to SEQ what we were
going to lie able to do, and we found that with
comparatively little effort 100000 was sub
scrlbed. On that basis. We went ahead to SEQ
what ground we could purchase. They had
done that before l came into office. and
they found that the most available ground to
purchase was tho block. Or a large part OF the
block. Just west Of College street. between
Wall and Grove. Yale already owns n largo
part OF the block Just south ofthat-that L. the
lot Immediately north OF Durfcc. about nine
tenths Of 1t. More than one-half Of tho block
west OF College street was purchased last Juno
for a site for a bi.centcnnial building for an
auditorium and dining hall. The matter has
boon put in the hands OF several architects for
competition.
Before tho end OF the month we shall have
decided on plan for n group OF buildings TO
he put on the second lot north OF the campus.
between tho Academical and Scientific depart
ments. There will be some sort Of memorial
building on the corner OF College aud Grove:
that il. opposite the Scientific school. and there
will be one large building On College street:
and II we have tho money, as /
have no doubt We shall. an
other on Grove street One OF these
buildings will be an auditorium, and another q
dining hail. How much we need both. an audi
forum and a dining hail. every nlumnus who
has been 70 Yale IN recent years can testify
alumni for speeches. nor il Alumni Hall pig
enough to contain all the alumni for eating.
during the year. 4 very great want Of Yale
right through the year Is that IN a university
q over 1000 students we have no building
Now. we need. In the first place, an audi
forum, and we are going TO have un audi
turium: and II, in addition to an auditorium.
we get the money for "a dining hail We are
Y pinL to have dining hall. too. We are ar
thOsa IL ~ IN
plan for all the buildings OF the university. by
which. instead Of each building being an
the, others, we can have some plan OF
building development that shall carry us
in the way Of building. those that are imnlci.
ately before us. But, besides this, we have
the land and we have a crying need for more
with these. as well some dormitorics.
hope 1t will be possible, Tor more. students to
only do they get the best oi college life.
But our building rlan- are not ths only plans
administrator. In the nrst place, we have
already established University Council OF
Representatives from the different depart
than one department.. and enable the law
course. and tn. medical course, and the aca-
the other courses to get into organic relations
with one another. AZ present each has
absnsed Us soS Ssys w4" Tr'Sn to the
things side by side. we can all work together
on better basis and We can utilize our power
u great deal better.
"Then, within the college itself-I speak OF
the academic department; the scientific de-
partment is arranged IN n better Wayne
hav" had what has been called m elective sys-
TEN. Now the word elective is all right enough
but the word system does not apply to II at all.
II has been arranged in this way Each depart
ment thought that II ought to have all the
time II wanted for it's teaching, and whatever
was left could be taken UP by the other depart
ments IL Is very much the way they arrange
the river and harbor bills In Congress- where
each mem Der thinks he ought to havp all that
he wants and whatever is left over the others
can have.
We must discuss what methods and what
courses OF study will give the various students
a means OF meeting their several wants and
thor several needs an arrange; the courses.
not on the basis OF compromise between con-
hicting claims but reconciliat ion of conflicting
views, VIII CHI Ia quite another thing aud in
order 70 do that, We must get into con ncction
with the schools.
"A reformation OF this kind has to be slow
matter as any bus ness dealings are slow mat
trrs. but with the spirit that we have at Yale
In the faculty and in the alumni, with the
spirit that We have in the students and in the
faculty and In the alumni and in the outside
friends OF tho Institution. believe that n lit
tie patience and great deal Of persistence will
see Yale In her rightul place, not only ut the
head ot some DEPARTMENTS Of education, a. she
IL at present but in leadership in an organized
body, wherein all educational INSTITUTIONS
shall have part AMI in whose operations the