The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-26
PRES. HADLEY'S REPOaT.
MADE AT TALE COMMENCEMENT
 YESTERDAY.

MADE AT TALE COMMENCEMENT
 YESTERDAY.
 College Education Not on Essential
 Qualification for Entering Profes-
 sionaI schooIs-New YaIe Mission to
 Chtnn.-Control OfAthIetics--summ mary
 of New G.fts-Divinity studentS Tu-
 ftion.
 The annual report of President Had ley of Yale University was made public yesterday. The report describes the present condition and prospective uses of the Bicentennial buildings, of Byers Hall of the Clinical building and the proposed Lampson Lyceum. It enume- rates the more considerable gifts to the university, among which the largest, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, come by the will of the late Senator McPherson, but will not be in actual possessionof the university until the lapse of a number of years. Other large gifts were the fund left the libra a y pJ tiiS W Ol IAdN dld w cllS pOulIl- worth; the new building for instruction and mineralogy, to be known as Mirt- land Hall; and the Isaac Smith fund of thirty thousand dollars for the academ- ic department, given by the wife and sons of the late Edward A. Simth of the class of 1856.
 Title to the Yale Field has finally been adopted, which, says the report while leaving the final responsibility in the hands of the students, provides for such graduate advice in their delib erations as will ensure conservative &C., tion. Much pressure has been brought to bear upon us from outside to have the faculties or council take a larger degree of control than this; but none of the men who have been most versed in the history of Yale athletics is prepared to advise such step. We are anxious to cooperate with every movement to raise the standard of inter- collegiate athletics; but we believe that the re- sponsibility for the carrying out of measures intended to promote this end must be borne by the academic body as a whole, graduate and undergraduate alike; that in the absence of a self-en- forced code depending on the public sentiment of that body the rules will be evaded; and that any action of a faculty which is construed as assuming this responsibility tends to weaken it's force in the places where it can really be made effective. The faculties must indeed prescribe the conditions of scholarship to which students shall conform in order to be regarded as full members of the university; and where participation in inter-c collegiate con- tests calls for the grant of special privileges it may be thought necessary to make special scholarship rules to prevent evil results from the abuse of these privileges. But every such neces- sity for special legislation is to be re- garded as a misfortune"
 Allusion is made to an important movement which though not officially connected with the university, has been planned by Yale men and has the sym pathy of the university authorities-the proposed Yale mission in China, mod eled on the general plan of the Oxford and Cambridge universities missions, and intended to be a center of educa- tional influences of every kind in the heart of the Chinese empire.
 No action has been taken looking to- ward the abolition of the Greek require- rnent for the academic department.
 That part of the report which has the widest general interest is the one which deals with the relations between the professional schools, the colleges and the secondary schools. It is we'll known that there is a strong movement in favor of requiring bachelors de- gree as condition of admission to the schools of law and medicine. With this view President Hadley takes issue. Although he admits the brilliant suc- cess of some schools which have pur- sued this policy, and concurs heartily in the belief that collegiate training is of the highest value to the professional man, he believes that the proposed change is a mistake, and involves de- reliction of public duty none the less grave because it is unconscious.
 "The requirement. that every man who begins professional study in law or medicine should have had already a college course of secondary study is good so far as it secures maturity of mind. It is bad so far as it makes him late in entering upon his ca- reer of active service in the world Whether the evil outweighs the good will depend upon the individual. To the man who has plenty of money for his support during his education and professional career the advantage of in- creased maturity probably outweighs the disadvantage of enforced delay. For the poor man the balance is likely to turn in the other direction. Many years must now intervene before the man who begins the study of law or medicine can hope to reach moderate competence This we cannot help. The public demands technical training, and has right to demand it. Each in- crease of human knowledge makes it harder for the young professional man .