New-York tribune., 1907-06-26

annual report which begins WITH the following
table, comparing the registration Of students in
1899 with that IN 1906:
Graauas sehoo School resident ,nti:a, 235 $6
sRe5sid scientific school 4o5 sos
Art School -..-..'.'.--' -
Bt1intty ii9 g''''t School je1ciudinG graduate
Medeai school l35 ISt
Law school 1875 29i
Referring to the table President Hadley points
out the increase ed demand for education In law ana
medicine and the diminished demand for education
in theology But he says the new requirements Tor
admission two years hence Will probably exclude
half the Law School students and IAN oyerwhelm-
ingIy large number Of those now have In the
Medical School" though in the Law school no
thinks the losses will be but temporary. In con-
nectlon with the change in the Medical School re-
quirements for admission he says:
I'VE should. however. make great mistake II
we let these difficulties and this probability of loss
Of numbers deter US from raising the standard Of
the Medical School. II We have a medical school
at all 1t must be n good one. II Is far better for
US TO have twenty men VINO are captpiS OF ap,
preclatinG their opportunities than two hundred
who not. A medical school which IS part
of a university is not in exactly the same situa-
tion Il separate medical school in some large
city The separate medical school finds its pri-
mary duty in turning out as large number as
possible OF reasonably we'll equipped physicians.
The university medical school ought 10 train men
In the scientific spirit"
President Hadley adds that the same principle
applies TO the Divinity School and he argues for n
tuition charge in the institution.
President Hadley calls attention also 70 the fact
that. while the academic department has remained
almost stationary in numbers the Scientific School
has almost doubled. This. ne says has been at
tribued increased interest I'm science. a dislike
for the study Of Creek and demand for three
wears course In the academic department.. RE
says. however, that the Scientific School is pri-
marily Il college. and that student there must
pursue more literary studies to get any kind Of a
degree than In Harvard College TO get tho arts de-
gree Among parents he finds only minority
that object to Greek. As to the shortening OF the
academic course he says:
ehO on 10 n IN
desirable Such a plan involves a disruption Of
traditions and ideals and social arrangements
greater than those who have not lived through a
college life can conceive. II would De especiaIy
great Yale College. because Yale College has
unusually large number Of these traditions and
social Influences
TO maintain a four years course in which most
of the students substitute other culture studies for
Greek is likely TO be increasingly difficult Multi
plicty OF subjects. without some definite aim and
purpose at the end, tends 20 sort of intellectual
dissipation. 1t is demoralizing 70 the poor men
and fatguing to the better ones.
we must apparently experiment with policy
which will allow the introduction in larger and
larger measure Of courses which really profess
sonal within the framework OF the undergraduate
electives
"Our students already able to include in their
list of Undergraduate electives enough studies in
law medicine TO save themselves year. hope
this matter will be carried further"
President Hadley calls attention the gift to the
endowment fund Of 100000 by Mrs. William w.
Seely. OF Cincinnati. and in regard to that fund
adds:
THE university endowment and extension fund
has made rather slower progress than expect
ed owing to the depression now prevailing in the
security markets of the country. We have. how
ever during the last two years secured enough
additional pledges TO raise the total amount to
$3OO0,0o-a specially gratifying result, because one
OF the pledges Of $00O0 received two years ago had
been made contingent upon our raising this amount
within n reasonable time"
Mr.. Davenport introduced. after Dr. HadIey John
K. Beach, of New Haven. who spoke for the class
or n; lie was presented as one for whom. it was
hoped the future had greater hOnors in store This
remark. alluding TO his candidacy for the seat Of
the late Judge William K. Townsend. of the United
States Circuit Court applauded.
This is stockholders meeting and no man
may speak for all tho rest, but for the class of
TT bespeak appreciation of tho administration of
the affairs Of the university A wise diplomacy
fighting big dangers not suspected by many of
us. We hear now and then the phrase new
Yale. but that is used in very superficial
sense. for in all things essential Yale has re-
mained. AS we get along in years every of
parts to her graduates II Is the possession of this
that marks the difference between the college
graduate and his less fortunate brother.
yale is also optimistic institution. These
strenuous times for constitutions and corpora
tons and sufficient unto Chancellor Day is the evil
thereof but we observe that the Constitution still
exists and that the courts have not been swept
away and finally see the railroads. a little
ceansed and purged by their experience, crying
Come in boys the waters fine And a word I
would say, that, although Harvard has now the
President, II will be turn next"
This reference to the candidacy of Secretary Taft
warmly applauded
Sidney Laselle, 49, said that he chosen TO
speak Tor MS Glass; he supposed because he nau
come from the China Sea. further than any other
alumnus present. He narrated many experiences
a missionary in China I'VE who live along the
China coast" said he had a peculiar thrill OF
pleasure when we learned that Yale alumni asso-
citation had been formed in China.
President Cyrus Northrop of the University or
Minnesota, representing the em-centennial class
of 81, received prolonged applause. He said: THE
class of 81 graduated 107 members. There are
fOrty-three alive and thirty-three here to-day.
We have bowed heads down and lifted them 10
the sunshine for fifty years and our hearts are AS
young to-day when left the home OF our
mother. Yale.
Professor William T. Sedgwick, II, of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, said To-day
proud to know that learning is interda
pendent, and we proud that our own president
is to go to Germany hold professorship while
a German professor is coming to u.s.
Senator Philander {. Knox, of Pennsylvania, who
delivered the annual Grafton at the Yale Law
School yesterday, was the guest OF honor at an
elaborate dinner given to-day by Judge Simeon z.
Baldwin. chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme
Court at his home in this city. Senator Knox will