The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-28

:, Professor Sanders retires from it's fac- uIty after a brief but extremely active | career as dean. During this time he has organized thoroughly and efi- cientIy the whole system Of scholarship aid to the students, and what is of yet more importance. of public service rem dered by those students in return for such aid.
 By the death of MT. Albert Sproull Wheeler, instructor in Roman law, We have lost one of the oldest members of the teaching force in the Law school. He left to Yale not only his law library, but nearly all his property, which will give us fund of some twenty thousand dollars for its mainte- nance.
 The academical department has been fortunate in the appointment of MT. Charles Montague BakeweI, now at | the University of California, to a pro- fessorship in philosophy. The close of the present year will mark the retire ment from the teaching -arce of this department of MT. Mark Bailey, who now completes fifty years of continuous service,-much the longest record of any one now connected with the teach ing force of the university.
 The figures of the deans report show the mischief which is done when the freshmen and sophomores sacrifice their intellectual prospects to their so- cial ones, real or supposed, by seeking Il the more luxurious and less democratic quarters which private houses afford. l Co nf l,oE the evil tends to correct itself But this is an unsatisfactory way of mak- ing the correction; and any parent who encourages his boy to room among a crowd of friends who care more for the lighter sides of college life than for the serious ones should know that it is likely to have an adverse effect upon his sons scholarship unless the boy has 8 much more than ordinary power of resisting temptation, .rs .....&. In the autumn of 1904 MT. Van Name expressed the wish to retire from duty as librarian at the close of the present academic year. In accepting his appli- cation for retirement, the corporation expressed the hope that the library might continue to have the benefit of his services in connection with the purchase of books; and to this request \ MT. Van Name hasAgenerously acceded His place at the head of the library will be filled by Professor John Chris i topher Schwab. Those of us who re- Imember his work at the Bicentennial | will feel assured that the exceedingly hard problems presented by the Yale library will be efficiently and success fully handled. @- These problems are particularly com Il plex at the present time on account of the proposed construction of a new .li- I brary building, from the money left4by the late MT. William B. Ross, as a me
 morial to pr. Jared Linsley, The arch itect selected was MT. Charles c. l Haight. The design adopted contem-
 plates the building of memorial sec tion close to the present Chittenden
 library in way which will provide the necessary facilities without invol-
 wing the destruction of any essential l part of the old library building. It is
 believed that as result of the adop-
 tion of this plan the beauty of that
 building will be enhanced rather than
 diminished. E8a
 Of gifts to our funds, announced pri-
 or to the time when this report goes
 to press, the largest.i is that of the late
 Levi c. Viets of Hartford, who left
 nearly his whole property, amounting
 to about two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars, to the university to be
 used for the benefit of the Sheffield Sci-
 entific school.
 Certain much needed gifts have been
 made to the Infirnafy. Mrs. Charles \ P. Taft of Cincinnati has promised fifteen thousand dollars for an addition iI to the building. Mrs. William H.
 Hurlbut of New York city, in provid-
 ing for a memorial room in ren1em-
 brance of her husband, a graduate of
 the class of 1860, has. given a fund of ten thousand dollars whose income is
 to be used for the benefit of the mfr mary, with special regard for the needs of poorer students; while Mrs. Dimocl and Miss Jennings of New York have collected a sum of over thirty thousand dallars for the general endowment of the institutions This has been supplemented by contribu- tions of over two thousand dollars from Cleveland; and we have the promise. of a considerable larger sum from Chicago in the immediate future. Professor Francis E. Looinis of the class of 1864, who in the year 1902 es- ! tablished fellowship in physics. has by an additional contribution of ten , thousand dollars established a similar
 fellowship in chemistry. s : A welcome gift of ten thousand dol- lars has been received from an anon
 ymous Harvard graduate, to consti- . ute a fund whose income is to be used . for the promotion of closer relations
 
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