The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-26


 elective system as administered at present-but we should also permit i him when he has found out what he Is ! good for, to begin seriously the work of professional study. Our students are already able to include in their list of undergraduate electives enough studies in law or medicine to save themselves a year. I hope that this matter will be carried farther, so that the Academic student can at any time after the close of his Sophomore year begin serious preparation for engineer { ing or divinity or anything else to which he has made up his mind. A great many changes will have to be made before this result Is reached; but the drift of events is in that direction and there appears to be no equally practicable alternative.
 The death of Samuel Lewis Pen field was a severe loss to Yale. He was scientific man of type which the university needs in order to preserve and promote it's best ideals. William Kneeland Townsend has been so long known to the world of Yale graduates that no words are needed to remind us of the large va cancy which his departure has left in our ranks Five members of our pro l fessional body will, at the close of the year, take their place In the ranks of the emeritii: Robert Brown. Lewis Orsmon Brastow. Daniel Cady Eaton, William Henry Carmalt, and Addison Emery Verril.
 It has not been found easy to fill any i of the places which have been left va 1 cant. The standard of what Yale pro- fessorship should mean is being pushed higher and higher. The faculties have adopted the policy-whlch is unques- tionably wise one--of holding that there never is a vacancy in any Yale professorship which must be filled un- less there is a man of professional calibre to fill It. If there is not, the teaching and organizing work of the place must be done by an assistant pro- lessor until the right man is found. Professor Brastow's place is to be talk en by the Reverend Ambrose White Vernon. Professor Vernon Is a gradu- ate of Princeton college, who comes to us from Dartmouth, where he has served successfully both as professor in the college and as preacher at a church which has been largely attended by the students. Professor Penfeld's place in mineralogy we have not as yet filled; but the governing board of Scientific school has strengthened itself on a | o11t l,, f,o ot,,t, ~fa,,t of John Duer Irving as professor of economic geology. Professor Irving Is a graduate of Columbia, who, after service with the United States geologi- ! cal survey and elsewhere, has in recent years been connected with Lehigh uni- versity. His ability as teacher and n- vestigator, and his influential position as editor of the journal Economic Ge- ology, will make him strong addition to the faculty. In the Academic de- Apartment, three assistant professors have obtained well-deserved promotion | to full rank. Messrs. Give Day, Charles Hubbard Judd. and Albert Galloway Keller Very important progress has been made by the Medical school in Its relations to the New Haven hospital. | For the first time we are able to give to our professors of medicine and sur , gery, not merely the general assurance | that privileges of continuous services In the hospital will be accorded them as a personal favor, but definite and posi- tive statement that they have certain 1 rights in that institution which will en- sure them the necessary basis for nlak- ing their teaching effective, while at the same time promoting the proper work of the hospital itself. The Summer 1 school has been exceedingly successful on the teaching side, but not on the financial side. It is the opinion of the l committee on the Summer school that I such an institution can only succeed 1 when we have in the university a de- partment of education which Is vitally and continuously active all through the 1 year. When we can find man who Is fitted to take the headship of that de- | partment we shall have key to the situation, and not till then.
 The construction of the new library | building has made excellent progress. The plans. attractive from the first, | give more and more satisfaction as they are worked out in detail. The | university is under obligation to MT. Haight, the architect, for the manner in which he has entered, heart and soul. into the work of meeting the dis tirctive needs of a university library. | MT. Sehwab has shown himself fully 1 eoual to the heavy burdens that have been placed upon him and he has been ably seconded by MT. Keogh. The uni- versity has appropriated the sum of s1O.000 a year for three years to pay for the work of rearranging and re- cataloguing the library as promptly as possible.
 The university endowment and ex- tention fund has made rather slower progress than was expected, owing to the depression now prevailing in the security markets of the country, We lhave, however, during the last two years secured enough additional pledges to raise the total amount to $S, 900, ,OOO--a specially gratifying result, because one of the pledges of s25o,- 900 received two years ago had been made contingent upon our raising this amount within a reasonable time.
 Of the gifts to university endowment during the year, the largest is fund of $100,000 given by Mrs. Seely of Cln- cinnati in memory of her husband, Dr. William Wallace seely of the class of 1S6l-a man much honored and Iio..o5 h,, oil va1a ora diia tpg If his