The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-28
REPORT BY PRES. HADLEY
DISCUSSES WORK OF THE UNI
 TERSITK.

University Policy Clearly Defned-Dis-
 tinct Event of the Year the Purchase
 of saehem's Wood Estate-Dehcit
 wiped Out and University SeIf-Sup-
 porting-ReIatiOn of the University
 to It's students-The Private DOrmi- tory Abuse Criticized-The Entrance
 Demands.
 The most distinctive event in the his- tory of Yale for the past year has been the arrangement for the purchase of the Sachems Wood estate, commonly known as the Hillhouse property" This estate contains about thirty-three acres. The present funds of the uniVer- sity will not be drawn upon either for its purchase or maintenance.
 The late owner of the property, MISS Hillhouse, was devoted lover of trees, and her interest in Yale connected It. self chiefly with the Forest school and botanical garden. It is perhaps not too much to say that it was this interest that made the acquisition of the prop erty possible; and it is the hope and expectation that some of its best parts will be used for the development of forestry and botany. But the uniyer- sity is wisely left free to use the land, for any of it's more public purposes for any buildings, in short, which are not wholly or mainly of the nature of dormitories. It offers an almost unrt- walled site for museums and bureaus of research. A school of irrigation, an Institute of Colonial Administrations or any of the other educational prospects in which Yale is prepared to take the lead as soon as the endowment is fur nished, might here find a fitting home.
 The services of MT. Frederick Law Olmsted have been secured as land- scape architect to give advice with ref erenee to the development of the prop erty and the location of buildings upon 1t.
 This purchase not only gives Yale all the new land which it now needs for its public purposes, but much greater freedom in using for It's own private purposes the land which it previously held. If we can put our museums and special schools on the Hillhouse estate, we are free to use our land in the city for dormitories and recitation rooms. The amount of this city land, though it was far from adequate to meet all our wants, is very much more nearly adequate for meeting the fraction of then-not over -third-which arises out of the need of housing our stu dents properly.
 A university has to deal with two classes of problems which arise out of its relations to its students, and those which arise out of it's relations to the general public. Most discussions of university work concern themselves chiefly with the relations of the insti- tuition to the student body. We try to arrange a course which shall meet the needs of the students; we organize the work of the professors with the same end in view. Three-quarters of the time of the corporation and more than nine-tenths of the time of the faculties is occupied with the consideration of problems involving the welfare of the !. students primarily or exclusively.
 But this is not the whole work of a university. It must care for its stu dents in this way; but 1t must do something far more than this. Its re lations to the general public are, be- lieve, quite as important as it's rela- tions to it's students. It is something more than a large school or group oi schools. Its professors can be occupied with something better than the discus sion of student discipline. The work ot a university is to maintain standards It can hardly succeed in that work il it confines it's inspiration to the reIa lively small number who have had the go odfortune to live within it's walls It must appeal at once to it's smaller constituency within its walls and to its much larger possible constituency without them, if
 Yale men have always recognized the responsibility and have done grea1 deal of work for the community. But Yale has taken less credit and less ad.