The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-12
FACULTY CHANGES AT YALE
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on President Woolsey in connection with the formal opening of Woolsey hall, which will take place on the Sat urday evening before commencement.
 In this connection it was decided, that as the bacealeaureate sermon is a nrli- versity as distinct from a college func- tion, it will be given this year in the new auditorium, Woolsey hall. % The corporation has decided to es- tablish a bureau of publication to look after the publishing of university theses and devise plans if. possible for co-ordinating various publications now issued by departments or groups of professors. This does not mean the 9es- tablishment of a university press, but the appointment Of committee which will look after the various publications, especially theses now issued by in- dividuals without any uniformity or regularity. "a .rs5 .3 q /
 The corporation passed several years ago a vote allowing professors and other officers of the university on per. manent appointments to retire volun- tarily when reaching the age of sixty. five years. This action has been to- day still further supplemented by the passing of a vote which: will make 1t the general rule after three years from this date, for professors to be retired on reaching the age of sixty-eight years, except when specially requested by the corporation to continue actively in their professorships.
 It is announced that the requirements for admission to Yale college (academ- jical department of Yale university have been changed so as to, allow for the possible substitution for Greek of an equivalent amount of advanced nlathe- matics or advanced modern languages. French or German. The subjects at present required for admissionSafe Eng fish, ancient history, Latin, Greek, ,math- ernatics. and one modern language. namely. French or German. The new reuuirements, which will go into effect in 1904, leave English, ancient history and Latin unchanged, but will allow Greek to be wholly or in part supersed- ed by an additional amount of mathe- matics or by a thorough knowledge of either French or German. These changes are the natural result of the changes to be made in the college curriculum.
 The changes in the curriculum (of Yale college) announced to-day affect the course Of study in freshman year and bring to conclusion movement begun rlinetean years ago to introduce flexibility and continuity into the coll lege course. Hereafter. the following eight courses will be open to a fresh- man: Greek, Latin French, German, English, mathematics, chemistry and history. Of these eight courses a fresh man will choose five, but under this re- striction. that three of his course must be in continuation Of three of the five studies (Greek, Latin, English, nlathe- matics or modern language) already pursued in the secondary school. By this restriction a connection between the work Of the school and the college will be preserved. and every freshman will be required to continue the study of at least one of three leading sub- jects Greek, Latin or mathematics, to which he gave the longestf time in his school preoaration.
 The college curriculum, as now com pleted, may be described as follows: The unit of requirement. is a course of study, one hour a week through one year. The completion of sixty hours is required for the attainment, Of the bachelor of arts degree. a considerably larger amount than is called for at institutions similar to Yale. These sixty hours the student divides between the four years of his course. Mature, we'll prepared and dil- igent students can in exceptional cases cover the sixty hours and attain their degree in three years. All the courses of study are arranged in three grades: A, B and c, which are naturally taken in successive years. The A courses are generally elementary and introductory to the more advanced B courses. These open the way to the c courses. which are most advanced and involve individual research. All the studies are, moreover, classi- fled under three divisions: I, Language and literature. II, Mathematic and the natural and physical sciences. III, Phil osophy. history and the social sciences. Every. student must complete before graduation two majors and three minors and these must be so arranged that not more than two of these five units shall be in one of the above divisions of study. A major unit consists of connected courses of grade A, B and c, aggregat- ing at least seven hours week; a minor unit consists of connected courses of grades A and B. aggregating at least five hours a week. This double provision aims on the one hand to encourage con- tinuous work along some lines and a certain degree of specialization along one line as evidenced by the individual research involved in the c courses: on the other hand it aims to encourage the students spreading their work over a variety of fields and thereby laying a broad foundation to their knowledge.
 So much of the above scheme as ap- plies to the three upper classes has practically been in operation during several years, and has given marked satisfaction. The threefold gradation of courses has especially commended itself as a stimulus to effective and interested work by the students. The. system, orig mating at Yale, has already been, copied by number of other colleges as a great improvement both. on the rigid system or exclusively required courses, and the indiscriminate elective system. F.,
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