The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-04

lions with Yale have been lifelong. He
studied there, he was tutor there, later
a professor, and finally president. His
name and that of the college were rare
ly mentioned apart. He was and is liked
and esteemed by everyone connected
with the college, and his reputation as
| a theologian and educator is as wide
| spread as higher education itself. He
has been strict without being mar
tinet, and while attached to all that
was good in the systems of the past, he
| has never hesitated to adopt improve
ments simply because they were new.
| Firm in his religious faith, his mind
and heart are too broad for bigotry,
and he readily accords to others that
| right of conscientious conviction which
| he asserts for himself
While President Dwight was chief of
| Yale but little more than twelve years
he transformed it in that time from a
college into a university, he cast aside
old fashioned ideas that INSTRUCTED the
progress of the institution, and he
abandoned the "penny-Wise, pound
foolish" methods which held the college
in the leading strings of short-sighted
economy. Fifteen new university build
ing have been erected, five altered or
enlarged, and one acquired by pur-
chase. A great deal of land has been
added to the college domain, new
scholarships and new professorships
have been created, the number of in
structors has been doubled, and the
number of students has increased from
about one thousand in 1886 to over two
thousand five hundred at present. The
graduate and musical departments
have been established, and women have
been admitted to the graduate schools
The architectural appearance of the
college and it's surroundings have been
greatly improved, and old structures
have been RACED to give place to new,
without regard to sentiment when 1t
interfered with usefulness.
These changes involved extensive
transactions, in all of which Dr.
Dwight proved himself to be thor
oughly up-to-date business man, keen
in exacting the fulfillment of contracts,
and equally faithful, on his own part,
in adhering to agreements. And amid
all these cares, he remained the same
refined and conservative scholar, the
same prince of intellect that he had
been as tutor and professor. 1t would
not be going too far to call ex-Presi-
dent Dwight the second founder of
Yale. He has certainly effected trans
formation which amounts to the crea-
ton of an institution abreast of other
leading universities of the old world
and the new.
Timothy Dwight's chief Characters
tic is thoroughness He does nothing
half way, and does not allow others to
do their work half way, if he can pre-
vent it. Il have gone over my lesson
said one of his students. THAT will not
do replied Dwight, you must not
only go over your lesson, but under it,
around it, and all through it." That
was the way that the great organizer
built UP Yale collge.
The retirement of such man from
the seat of learning which he has hon.
ored, is a memorable event. The world
has too few Dwights. 1t has too many
so-ealled scholars, who occupy the
inches they have found prepared for
them, and perform their duties in
perfunctory way Timothy Dwight has
shown that the old New England stock
has not lost it's power of upbulding
and progress; that it is as capable as
ever of grand leadership in the college
as in the forum, and that the descend
ants of the men who laid fast and sure
the foundations of the Republic will
not be swept from the van by the tide
of later immigration.
1t is hard to imagine such a leader
in retirement His Influence will con-
tinue to be pervasive in American ed
ucation, no matter where he secludes
and his example will always
be most potent and inspiring, not only
in the great institution of learning
identified with his name and his career,
but wherever the interests of higher
are held at their proper
value.