The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-21
NEW YALE GRADUATE COURSE Elective Changes Announced for the
 Coming Year

! Important changes are planned a
 Yale in the Graduate school for the
 coming year than in any other depart.
 ment of the university. The prospec.
 tus for the school, issued by Professor
 Andrew w. Phillips, the dean, shows a total of four hundred and thirty-foul
 courses will be offered next year, ot
 which ninety are to be given for the
 first time A total of eighteen clubs have been formed in the school for re-
 search and criticism and special de- partment libraries, and lecture courses
 have been arranged which have com
 pletely changed the scope of the school
 the past few years. Two new prizes
 are to be given in this department next
 year for the first time, the John Addi-
 son Porter memorial fellowship of five
 thousand dollars, which is to be added
 to the Porter memorial fellowship of
 five thousand dollars which has been
 available for the department for some time. This gift is by the widow of J. A.
 Porter in memory of her husband, who
 was an enthusiastic Yale alumnus.
 The five thousand dollar scholarship | founded by members of the class of '76, named the "Hadley scholarship in honor of President Arthur T. Hadley, who was member of the class, will yield two hundred and twenty-five dol lars annually, which will be devoted to defraying the expenses of the publica tion of these and other similar matters incident to the original work of mem hers of the graduate course.
 Most of the new courses given are for advanced undergraduate work. Some of the more interesting of the new courses are:
 The anti-theistic theories, by Profess sor Stevens; practical pedagogy, Dr. Rowe; school organization, equipment and organiza ton, Dr. Rowe; equipment and methods of a teacher, by fourteen members of the faculty, who will mar rate personal experiences; modern pam theism and pessimism, Professor Ladd; paupersm and crime, Professor Far nam; theory of capital Professor Fish CT; the speculative market, Professor Emery; public control of trade and in- dustry, Professor Robinson; general church history, Professor Walker life and work of Calvin Professor Walker: New England colonial society, Profess sor Baldwin the Southern States be- fore 1S60 Professor eWlls: the Spanish drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Professor Schwill; sanitary water analysis, Professor Wells; geolo- gy of Connecticut, Professor Gregory: meteorology, l.. M. Tarr of the United States Weather Bureau; and the phi .f
 The summary of the courses which are offered is as follows: Philosophy fifty; social science, history and aw, seven; semitic languages and Biblical fifty nine; classical and Irido Branian philology, fifty-nine: modern languages, sixtyfive; physical and | natural sciences, eighty-one; mathe- | matics. twenty-nlne; fine arts, four; | music, seven; and physical culture, | eight.
 The school has three hundred and | forty-one students registered at the | present time, as against three hundred. and twelve last year, and teaching | force correspondingly increased to two hundred and thirty-two.
 In the department of psychology, ethics and philosophy, there is an in- crease in the number of courses from forty to fifty. One of the features this year is in some of the courses being given by men In other departments, as Professor Hopkins course, "Compara- i've Religion" and Professor Stevens n "Theistic Theories" Dr. Judd, who tt the present time is professor at the of Cincinnati, will take in all three branches. Dr. ". l. Taylor, who received his degree of oh. D. in philosophy here last year and vho has a large practical experience in public schools will give new and in- eresting course in the "History of Ed lcation.' With this course and two ther new ones beside the combination curse, the subject of Pedagogics is cry carefully covered. The combina- ion course, the Equipment and Meth ds of the Teacher" as 1t is, by a series f informal lectures on the above sub- ect by thirteen different professors, prominent in their respective depart 1ents and based on the results of their xperience. In this and other depart 1ents many of the old professors have I many cases given new courses or
  he course more instructive and inter- sting. I The social science department in- t rease of six courses does not represent U S real strength. The value of Profess T. pr Summers courses in the history of uman society is well known. Profes- 1r Schwab will return to take up his III work again and all of the old pro- ,ssors have very complete courses in leir special lines. Assistant Professor ay has opened up what may develop ito new field by combining history ith economies In his Economic His ny of Europe" pr. Norton and MT. acCurdv each have new courses. the = rmer on '"rhe Statistical Theory of e Evolution of Man" and Trade Sta stics," the latter on Physical Authro- )iogy' and Physical Anthropology." Beginning with two courses in fun ,mental historical work, the scheme r
 the historical department is so ar I ,nged that the work is divided into cups from ancient through mediaevaI
 modern, covering every field with markable thoroughness The differ ipIc | -