The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-06-29
YALE PRESIDENTS REPORT.
READ IN ALUMNI HALL YES
TERDAY.
AN Exceptionally Prosperous Year
The FInances-An Alumni Council
Talked OF.

The F1nances-An Alumni Council
Talked Of
The year which is just closing has
been an exceptionally prosperous one.
The number of students is larger than
ever before. The standards of scholar
ship have been fully maintained, and
in many instances improved. The
health and order of the university have
been good; its financial condition has
been on the whole satisfactory. The
gifts and requests which have been
made to us have exceeded half a mill
lion dollars In amount; and the provi-
sions regarding the use of those gifts
have been without exception liberal and
wise.
For an account of what is being done
in the work Of instruction In the seve-
raj departments of the university, ref
erence must be made to the valuable
reports of their several deans and di-
rectors. As matters of special interest,
we need only refer to the proposed es-
Establishment Of a summer school and a
professorship Of the theory and practice
of education by the academic faculty,
to the development of the course in
mining, engineering in the Sheffield Sci
entffic school, and to the measures
which have been taken to bring the
Law school into closer connection and
coordination with that Of the rest of
the university.
We have lost two professors by death
during the year-Charles Emerson
Beecher of the Peabody Museum, and
Francis Wayland of the Law school.
Mr.. Beecher was worthy successor OF
Professor Marsh, who combined with
the highest reputation as productive
investigator, power as a teacher, and
charming character as a man. In his
hands the scientific interests of the
university were securely guarded. We
are fortunate in being able to secure,
as his successor, Mr.. Charles Schuchert
of Washington, whose work has fol-
lowed so closely in the lines pursued by
Mr.. Beecher. Mr.. Wayland. by his de-
voted service and courteous character
as a gentleman, has made himself a
central figure in the work of the uni
yersity for q generation past We val
ned him for what he had done for the
Law school, for what he had done out
side of the Law school, and most of all
for what he had been in himself. Al
though he had discontinued his active
connection with our teaching force, the
influence of his personality was not lost,
and never can be.
The most important among the addi-
lions to the resources of the university
are: l. Al gift of one hundred thousand
dollars from Mr.. Hammond to the
ShefaeId trust, for a mining laboratory
for the use Of the university in the
course of Mining Engineering now be-
ing developed. 2. requests from the
late Mrs. Henry Farnam of about fifty
thousand dollars to the Medical school
ana a littla less than forty thousand
dollars to tn elibrary funds. 8. r be-
uuest Of two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars from Mr.. William B. Ross
of New York city, of the class Of 1852,
for the construction and maintenance
of building in memory Of DR.. Jared
Iinsly. The gift of Mr.. Ross is to be
used for the construction of the much
needed central section Of the university
library-a thing in which DIR. Linsly
was specially interested
The details of the plan for the library
building cannot be announced at pres
ct. A library meets so many needs and
affects so many kinds of interests that
1T takes longer time to plan than any
other building which exists. In the
case of library for Yale university
there Is a special source Of perplexity,
due to the fact that we already have
Important library buildings which we
cannot and ought not to destroy. To
locate and devise a main or central
building which shall give the accommo-
dalton which we need, and shall SO con-
meet with the Chittenden wing as to
give full economical access to it's seve-
raj floors and use its storage capacity
to full advantage; to preserve as far as
possible that old library building which,
with all it's faults, is the most academic
and perhaps the most beautiful Of all
the buildings which we have on the
ground; to provide the needed space
for the present and the needed posi-
bilities of growth for the future; all
this constitutes a difficult problem and
furnishes a good excuse for the neees-
sary slowness in it's solution. It may
De unQeEStUOU ludC every GfLOrC Will De
made to retain, with as little impair
Inent as possible the lines of the old IL
brary building. The completion of the
South Middle guarantee fund has rem
dered it certain that that building will
be preserved, and has so far commit
ted us to the modification of the plan
of an unbroken quadrangle as to leave
our hands freer than this would other
wise have been in the matter of library
construction.
The Bicentennial buildings have
proved more useful to the university
than its most sanguine friends antici-
pated. The success of Woolsey Hall in
connection with the work Of the Sym
phony orchestra and on other occasions,
has been remarkable. After a period
of much perplexity, the dining hall has
at length, under the management of
Captain Smoke, been put on a basis
where it is at once self-sustaining and
popular.
After five years of arduous service as
treasurer, Mr.. Tyler feels 1t necessary
to lay down the burdens of the office.
During the period of his incumbency he
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