The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-28
THE YALE CORPORATION.
IMPORTANT MEETING HELD
 YESTERDAY MORNING.
Designations of Professor Ladd and Hon. David Torrance Accepted--Pro- fessors George M. Duncan and Sheath Trnnsferred--New Chair to Train Teachers-sumnler School for 1s0s- New Appointments Made.


 An important meeting Of the Yale corporation was held yesterday. At this meeting the resignation of Profess sor Ladd from the chair of normal philosophy and metaphysics was &C., cepted. and also the resignation of Hon. David Torrance from the professorship of evidence in the law school. Professor George M. Duncan was transferred at his own request to chair of logic and metaphysics in the college, while Pro- lessor. Sheath was similarly transferred at his own request to chair of the theory and practice of education. Pro- lessor Sheath will organize courses specially designed 10 meet the needs of teachers. The purpose of the new chair is to train public and private school su- perfhtendents and principals and school teachers of all grades. An important feature of the work will be the organ ization of a summer school in 1905, af- fording opportunities to the teachers of the country to improve themselves in the subjects they are teaching and to strengthen themselves on the more dis tinctly professional side of their work in methodology, school administration, the history of pedagogy and psychology and philosophy of education, etc. Pro- lessor Sheath has offered university courses at Yale for a number of years along pedagogical lines and is in close touch with the teachers of the state.
 The following new appointments were authorized Charles Schuchert, as cura- tor of the geological collections in the Peabody museum and professor of his torical geology In the Sheffield scien- tiflc school Mir Schuchert will also become member of the governing board oe the scientific school. He was intimately associated with the late Pro- lessor Beecher in his palentological work. He has been in the employ of the United States government for many years and is at present assistant cura- tor of the palentological section of the national museum in Washington. Louis Doremus Huntoon, M. E., was elected assistant professor of mining and metallurgy in the Sheffield scientific school, and the following appointments in the college, Herbert Samuel Mallory, Ph. B., instructor in English; Award Longley Bishop, B. A., instructor in commercial geography; Fred Rogers Fairchild, B. A., instructor in econom- ics; Luther Allen Weigle, M. A., assist ant in psychology; James Brown, B. A., assistant in chemistry; Charles Paxton Flora, B. A., assistant in chemistry; Ralph Nelson Maxson, B. s., assistant in chemistry; Albert Hileman, B. A., assistant in chemistry; Joseph Lohn Kreider, B. S., assistant in chemistry; Raymond Harmon Ashley, B. S., assist ant in chemistry; David Lindsey Ram dall, assistant in chemistry; Julius Hall Parmelee, assistant in statistics; Ellis Earl Lawton, E. S, assistant in physics.
 Other important announcements made after the meeting of the corporation committee has completed the raising of the fund of 5000 necessary to restore the building on its original lines and put 1t into good sanitary condition. MT. Tyler's resignation of the treasurership of the university was accepted to take effect this fall. A special committed was appointed to draw up resolutions with reference to Mr. Tyler's services to the university. It was decided that l.. e II. ioI toI1 l become a quintennial and the directory of living graduates binennial publica- tion. Arrangements have been affect ed for the assumption by the university of the law schools budget. Up to the present the financial administration of the law school has been largely inde- pendent of the university. Professor George P. Adams was added to the uni versity library con1mittee.