The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
WRIGHT TO STAY
 AS YALE'S DEAN
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 the members of a class, and this plan was put into effect Under the first President Dwight permanent profes- sors were appointed who, with the president and tutors, formed the facul- ty. By 1S49 the tutors board which had some charge of the students prac- tically went out of existence, but di- vision officers still maoe recommenda-
 tions to the faculty, and out of this practice grew the class faculties.
 In 1881 the increase in the number of subjects taught to each senior class had become so great that there was return to the single administration off fcers. and members of the permanent faculty were appointed to that office
 rotation.
 Prof Newton served as senior class officer in 18S1-2, Prof. Peck in 1882
 8, and Prof Ladd in 1884. In 1884 a further change was made on account of the much wider extension of the
 elective system in the senior and jun for classes. An administrative officer
 for the two classes was appointed by 1 the president, and the selection was
 then made of Dean Wright Dean
 Wright proved of such remarkable eff
 fciency and personal strength in the
 office that he has been the dean of the college continuously since then, though there exists no official record of a vote for the establishment of the deanship nor was he in fact, ever ap- pointed to It. At first, says Dead Wright, in his report, only duties like
 those of a division or class officer de'
 volved upon him, and he met the stu
 dents in his private room, Ss North
 Middle college, where he had before
 met the members of division For
 Inc past two years all the work oi
 the office, including the recording oi
 absences, the interviewing of students
 md the correspondence with parents
 vas done by the officer in charge with, out assistance, who had in addition
 fourteen hours of teaching each week
 during two-thirds of the year.
 Under Dean Wright, and largely because conditions found in him thu man to settle them, the office has seer steady development and reorganiza ton until now 1t amounts to the lead $ ership of the academic faculty, if no : the practical presidency of the college The dean now appoints the facult. Z lcomnittees, is called upon to act 2 : umpire in various disputes, and in : broad way leads the department. Tn many calls on his time and though 7 have brought about a complete husi z ness organization of the office, so thai besides the registrar, A. I1 Merritt 7. OS, the dean has a number of regu ' arly appointed assistants who carr 2 out the detailed work of recording tn 7 the undergraduate scholarship an o conduct,
 [, "The deans office was transferre Y from North Middle to 1S6 Farnam Ha e in 1888 and to 135 Elm street in 1S0 r the house long occupied by Professc 4 Newton. In 1904 it was removed j. t.ampson Lyceum where it now Is. Tn 1T flee of "dean'' was recognized in tt |. catalogue for 1885, but not until 1S' y did the title "Dean of the College Fat $ ulty" appear in the list of unlversit W V officers. While the three upper classt n have come under the present Dean p charge the freshmen are still under freshman committee, where they rt d ceive that personal and individual cal y that college neophytes call for"