The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-24

tions of college classes. The system 0
 'cramming" is cited as another specia
 evil of written examinations; als
 another flaw in the plan, namely, tn | publication of the examination papers
 which compels those who prepare then
 to make them progressively difficult. Il
 conclusion of this subject the presiden
 suggests personal investigation" 0
 the students knowledge by the instruc
 tor as q substitute for formal examina
 tions which have rarely, if ever, any
 force within them for the arousing O | enthusiasm"
 1 The president calls special attention t(
 the swift growth of the graduate de l pertinent, where from twenty to thirty
 felloWships are greatly needed, requir-
 ing at least $900,000. He approves a foul | years curriculum, and mentions as 6
 subject of interest the popularity In the l two upper years of history, English lit
 erature and political science-the last | in it's relations to the duties of citizen
 ship of peculiar value to young men
 He criticlses, however, as "excessive' '
 the tendency to specialization in the col l lege course, and says it should be coun.
 teracted by the broader education. De-
 batting, also, for the first time, is com- | mented upon in report of President | DWlSht, Who approves it strongly, and
 suggests that a new building should | De constructed for it's purposes. He | gives, however, very qualified assent to
 intercollegiate debating, and hints that | too much of their interest is in securing
 prize or victory.
 | In the Scientific school the president
 reneWs his strong appeal for funds for a biological laboratory In that depart ment the necessity for a course in sani- tary engineering grows more evident
 each year. Christian work in the uni versity Is reviewed praised and it's val
 ue emphasized. The attitute of the Theological school in refusing short | courses of study for men of inferior preparation is commended. In the law department the total gifts of J. w. Hen. drie for the new building now amount to $65,000. For a new building of the Medical school now at a critical point of growth, the president asks not less than $125, ,000, and in the Art school funds are much needed for endowing chairs of architecture and history of art. The sum of $200,0O0 is asked for as additional en- dowment of the library. The oldest liv- ing graduate of the college is Benjamin D. Silliman, whose seventy-ffth anni- versary of graduation comes this month. The gifts of the eighteen months in money, including bi-centennial subscrip- tions, amount to more than $500,000, and at the closing of the report $430,000 had been secured in bi-centennial funds. The increase of the library during 1898 was 10,S80 volumes and 7S00 pamphlets, of which 9,320 volumes were purchased.
 The report names the following gifts not appearing in the last treasurer's re- port and all but one hitherto unpublisf- ed; From Mrs. Timothy Dwight, $2000 for land adjoining the inf1rmary; from w. B. Crosby, trustee, $5,7S1 for the Macy fund of the academical depart ment; from J. H. Whittemore, $3, 200 ad- ditional for income of the Theological school; from the Fayerweather estate $10, GOO; from the Eliza T. Parker estate, $2613 for the Parker prize of the Law school; from friend who withholds his name. $1,000 in aid of theological stu dents.
 The president mentions briefly the choice as his successor of Professor Hadley tat most suspicious time in the history of the university-a time when all the inspirations of the past and future seem to unite for his encourage ment."
 As the ''central thought for the uni verstys future, President Dwight &C., 11n fn ot 1,af Vol In velop hereafter as university, not sim ply as college, and that the university idea must be kept prominent without subordination of one department to an- other. In his farewell words he says:
 The present president, the fifth in the succession, ventures to hope that the friends of Yale, in their review of these last thirteen years, may feel that he has wrought not unworthily of those who preceded him. There could be for him. no happier fortune that to be assured that his work has, in some true sense and measure, fitly completed-for | the hundred years-that which was be- gun so grandly by his ancestor. It will | always be pleasant thought to him. if he may have this assurance-that the peSlHhllB anu the ellulng were, py the favor of God, given to the two men, of the same family and bearing the same name, as their allotment of working In and for the college and university"
 With words of grateful recognition of the kindness manifested towards him by the members of the corporation and the other officers of the university, and of the friendship of the graduates to which they have given most generous testimo- ny, the president closes this last report If the years of his administration. As he leaves his office, his desire and prayer are that the divine blessing may ever rest upon this home of learning, which was consecrated by the fathers to the Christian faith.