The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-27

take the time and not take the Greek
 must find something that will presen
 corresponding obstacles to overcome
 some requirement which cannot be me
 by years residence in Europe or
 years amusement in laboratory. Un less we guard ourselves against thls
 danger, students will come to our col 1eges prepared to play rather than tt
 work We shall subject ourselves tC
 the same difficulty under which the
 common school suffers in dealing witt
 the kindergarten- trained child. When
 we have something to put in the place
 of Creek which can similarly tax and
 develop the students powers of appli-
 cation, the time will come for the
 change. In the present stage of dis
 cussion the academic faculty is con
 sidering where, if anywhere, such
 real equivalent can be found, With
 any nominal equivalent which looks
 well on paper and works badly in practice, it will not rest satisfied.
 "Side by side with these changes in
 the curriculum changes in the society
 system are working themselves out
 among the student body, The abolition
 of the sophomore societies has left
 room for the further development of
 the fraternities: which in future, ln-
 stead of beginning their life with jun
 for year. will take in members Of the
 sophomore class also. Nearly all
 graduates regard this as healthful
 change. It is, however, unlikely that
 the societies will occupy in the col
 lege world of the future the dominant
 place which they held generation
 ago. The college has outgrown their
 framework It is too large. It has | too many kinds of interests. It has
 become part of a university coming into
 daily contact with many phases of life outside of itself. The fact that the
 senior society membership is too small to reward all kinds of promi-
 hence will not result in making these other kinds of prominence less valu- able, but will lave the effect of pre- venting the senior societies from being an exclusive goal of student ambition
 They will fall into their true function, as clubs for mutual improvement rath- CT than as prizes for remorseless com- petition.
 "Of material improvements in the work of the academica department. the most important is the enlargement of the chemical laboratory, made pos sble through the bequest of S50,oOO wherewith MT. A. E. Kent concluded series of benefactions to the college. That money has been so spent that the facilities for the study of elementary chemistry will be practically doubled.
 Through the genrosity of Mrs. A. M. Byers. of Allegheny, Pa, arrange ments have been made for the con- struction, on the southeast corner of College and Grove streets of a build ing which Is designed to serve as center of collegiate life for the Shef- field scientific school, in which the donors son, the late MT. Alexander Byers, was a graduate of the class of 1894. To this son his father had de- l signed to erect such a memorial; since his fathers death 1t becomes a monu- ment to him and to his son at once. In material and design it is to be in harmony with blcentennial buildings on the west side of the street-of which group, in fact, it may almost be | said to form a part. The basement | and first story of the new building are lO CDIlldiH Ntll-liltcb tiub Iooiilos tbC | second story is to be devoted to the | use of the Young Mems Christian as- sociation of the Sheffield scientific school and the religious work connect ed with it. while the third story, which has separate entrance on Grove street, is to be devoted to students rooms. The day is past when the stu dent body of the Sheffield school con sisted of zealous scientific specialists, each of whom could live his life in any house that proved itself convenient without loss of benefit through the want of association with his fellows, or danger of evil through somewhat contact with the condi- tions of the modern city.
 Professor Fishers place in the Di- vinity school is so large that it takes two men to fill 1t. To his work as dean of the department the succession falls on Professor Sanders, who has been transferred from the Woolsey .hair of the academical department with that end in view. His work in history will be taken up oy Professor Williston Walker, who comes to us from Hartford Theological otIlllIldl anu 10 " s,e'i uSu cb iiiS ludil lbove all others for the place.
 In the problems that come before he Yale Divinity school in the imme- Hate future, we shall have full need of he exercises of Professor Sanders or ability and business strength t is not solely nor chiefly on account If the need of raising money for pur- poses connected with the school hough this is in no wise unimport- nt--but for the sake of bringing the , ourse of study, the men into more 'ital connection with the life of the { American nation. The need of pro- ress in methods of theological instruc- S ion is perhaps felt more strongly than f nywhere else, because the ministry f as been more radically affected by f ertain changes of modern life than has , een the case with any other profess r ion. The lawyer, or doctor, or engi- r ger is called upon for the same pur- q ose for which men called him hun o red years ago-to try a case, to cure G disease, to build a bridge. But the minister is not called upon for the z. anne purpose. The attitude of the I, ublic mind toward sermons has < hanged. A hundred years ago near a / everybody wanted to hear them. :,