New-York tribune., 1901-10-13

satisfactory. The students riotous. the
tutors immature, the rectors resident in other
places and IN 1116, after prolonged struggle,
the Board of Trustees voted to remove to New
Haven. The first commencement held In
New Haven on September II. 1711, and two
weeks later the first building started. At
about this time a large assortment of books
we're presented by English friends. among whom
were Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Edmond Andros
and Governor Elihu Yale; the Connecticut AS
sembly voted $500 and the school began to
prosper.
But it was twenty-five years before the college
secured footing strong enough 20 promise
future. Governor Elihu Yale made the first
substantial gift in 171S. and so overjoyed was
the corporation that at commencement in that
year the institution named Yale College
and the building so called. Two rectors
intervened before President Clap took office in
1893 Timothy Cutler. who nearly ran the col
leee out of business and who went over to the
Church of England, and summarily dis
missed and Elisha Williams gifted clergy
man, but poor president who afterward found
his true vocation in politics, where he was
successful and became Colonial Ambassador
to England Williams secured from Bishop
Berkeley the gift of his splendid estate near
Newport, but unwisely leased it for T)9 years
at I'll a year. President Clap old
IaSnlOneO OrlnOlOA anu liIc 'OII'6' III
rculum was rather narrow under his admins
tration But he began the old Brick Row, with
South Middle, which is still standing. and really
put the college on its feet. Ezra Stiles was
president from ITS to 119J, and while still
religiously narrow. the college was handed over
10 Timothy Dwight with something like
foundation upon which to work.
Modern Yale dates from the first Timothy
Dwight administration which was marked by
great progress Under Dwight there rose two
distinct schools at Yale, the literary move
ment, known as the "IIartford Wits" and in
Guiding Joel Barlow, John Trumbull and Dwight
himself and the first of Yale's great scientific
movements. under Sman. Day and Olmsted
No factor was potent in the Development
OF Yale than this group of scientists. Silliman
popu,ariZed geology Omsted pOpularzed as
tronomy, and Day popularized natural science.
President Dwight built Lyceum and North Mid
die in the Brick Row. and greatly broadened
the curriculum. He made possible the great
strides in advance that were taken by his sue
ressors.
TIE long terms of Presidents Day, Woolsey
and Porter added each to Yae's progress. while
In this period students began to come frssn all
parts of the country. Woolsey was perhaps the
greatest of this group Of Yale leaders. Far
ahead of his and broadminded. he founded
the Sheffield Scientific Schoo', the Art School
and the Graduate School, reconstructed along
broad lines the theological ana medical depart
,lcuts began the series of noble buildings that
aoW surround the Old campus. multiplied the
university funds, and remodelled the curricu-
lum modern lines. In the quarter century
In which he ruled over Yales affairs the college
expanded maryellously, and paved the way for
the later constructive work of President Dwight
President Noah Porter. in quieter way.
ried Woosey's work, so that when President
Timothy Dwight took the reinS he found ma
terial at hand with which to build a university
1t is still too early to know completely the
great work of the second Dwight. That he
found Yale college and left her university
Is perhaps the most striking feature of his ad-
Eninistration- But he also did countless other