The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12
THE ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE DEAN OF TALE UNI
 VERSITY

DormItorIes For Graduate Students Growth of the UniveFsity-smalI Rise in the Age of GrnduatiOn- Features of Academic Life.
 The annual report of Dean Henry P. Wright of the academical depart ment of Yale university, is an inter- esting document this year, giving many statistics which throw valuable side lights on the makeup of the depart ment. Professor Wright's report shows that there were 1,240 students in the department at the beginning of the last college year. This is just one less than the highest number ever re- corded, which was 1,241, in 1S97
 The total number enrolled in the past ten years was as follows: 1891, SSS; 1892 96s; 1893, 1,OS6; 1894, 1,150; 1895. 1,199; 1896, 1,237; 1897, LIZA; 1898, 1,224; 1899, 1,224; 1900, 1,190.
 The report states that 20 per cent. of those taking final examinations for admission to the class of 1905 failed, while 29 per cent. of those taking pre- liminary examinations failed. Of those entering college with conditions in one or more subjects, 45 per cent. were in mathematics, 30 per cent. in Greek, 15 per cent. in Latin, per cent. in Eng fish, and per cent. in modern lan- guages.
 Professor Wright calls attention to the greatly increased interest taken in the study of Spanish since the United States has come into possession of the Philippines and Porto Rico. Before the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, the courses in Spanish were not chosen by more than 20 or 30 students each year. In 1899 the number was doubled and in the past year it rose to 10S, mak- ing it necessary to apoint an additional Instructor in Spanish.
 The average age at graduation from college is a topic of general interest From 1863 to 1873, the average was g years, months and 1 day; for the next decade it was 2 years, 5 months and 13 days; for the next, p years, ' months and days, and for the last 10 years, g years, 9 months and 27 days.
 Tn discussing this advance in the age of graduation, Dean Wright says:
 ..This rise in the age of graduation seems small when we remember the great advance in the amount and kind of preparation needed in order to pass the examinations for admission.
 ITO be properly prepared in the sub jects now acquired for admission to Yale, the average boy must somewhere find room for from one and one-half to two years more of work than was needed in 1859 and must be prepared to pass an examination much more diff cult in kind'
 Graduate students at Yale have long been urging that the y be permitted to rent campus rooms, and so be able to retain through the years of graduate study the rooms which they occupied while undergraduates. Prof. Wright is in sympathy with the subject as is shown by his words:
 ''The good fellowship the democratic spirit and independence of a college dormitory are among the pleasantest and most desirable features of academic life. Our dormitory accommodations ought to be ample enough not only to take in all undergraduates, but to ex- 5 tend their privileges to graduates also. If graduates of the college were allow ed to retain their rooms, it would be to many strong inducement to continue graduate or professional studies in New Haven; and body of graduates located in the college buildings would have a healthful influence upon the life of the undergraduate community"