New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-01-25
YALE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL,
NEW BUILDINGS WHICH WILL ADD TO
EFFICIENCY OF SHEFFIELD.

New Haven. Conn, Jan. "a (SpeciaD.-Through
the generosity of Frederick w. Vanderbilt, of
New-York City, a graduate of the class of 10
Sht f.. the Yale Sheffield Scientific School is
just now launched on the most important era of
development of its history. Mr.. Vanderbilt has
il Ike last year purchased for the scientific
hool 4 cOnsIdera BILE tract Of land directly ad
C.nmg the Shelf. block of Ia Ooratories, and work
E@s already begun for the erection of the first
Cf a series of dormtOry buildings, which in time
Nil inclose the block bounded by College, Wall.
Temple and Grove SITS This first dormtOry will
occupy most of the frontage of this block in
WaIi-st. Announcement is further made this
week by Director Russell II. Chittenden of the
scientific school that second Vanderbilt Shelf.
dormitory will shortly be begun on the Col
lege-st. side of the block, this second building
to be placed between Byers Hall, at Grove and
College SITS. and the St. Anthony Society Hall,
at College and Wall SITS. BY the spring of 1904
it is expected that both of these dormitories
will be nearly. if not entirely, completed
While the development and growth of Yale in
the academic department. the medical and the
law schools has been remarkable in the last
few years, Sheffield Scientific School has not
only kept UP with its sister departments but
has even forged ahead of several of them. The
scientific school which is one of the two great
undergraduate departments of Yale University,
has in the last three or four years undergone
marked development and is now entering on
new era which is the most remarkable in its
history. Noted since its beginning in 1916
one Of the foremost schools of science in the
country. it has steadily grown in strength and
numbers, and has maintained a constantly in
creasng standard of scholarship and to-day is
to be regarded the threshold of still greater
advancement. Although the department of a
university, Sheffield Scientific School has grown
so that it is in reality now college in ITSELF
compared with the attendance at other institu-
tons. There at present 1872 students on its
rolls, of whom go are freshmen and 40 gradu-
ate students. 1t has a faculty of seventy-eight
which is nearly in the proportion of one for
every ten students.
Besides the two dormitories given bv Mr.
Vanderbilt, Shelf. has just completed another
building which is to be combination of Young
Mems Christian Association and dormitory-
Byers Hail-and has Just broken ground for an
other laboratory, Kirkland Hall.
The most interesting phase perhaps of the
scientific schools recent expansion and the de-
velopment that promises in the near future is
the change which the new doTmitOry system in
stituted by Mr.. Vanderbilt Will bring in the life
OF the undergraduates of the department. Up to
now the academic department, with its great
system Of dormitories and campuses, constantly
being added TO by wealthy graduates and friends |
Of the university, has had this advantage over |
She ff.-that its students have had for gen /
eratiOns a common meeting and living place, |
which in turn fosters the social side of under |
graduate life. Because of the fact that Shelf |
has had dormitoreS a ali the undergradu- |
ates have either been forced to live in boarding
houses near the school to form clubs and live !
N costly slIrnDtuOuS. society buildings with |
HIGH the streets and avenues near the school /