The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
WRIGHT TO STB
 AS YALE'S D
Dean Prevailed Upon to H Charge of Academic 4 partment Till June, |
 1909.
ROUNDS QUARTER cEN
Splendid Record Made by Rem Man at the Head of Coll lf Office Through Lengthy
 Term.
Announcement wiIl be ofticis

Announcement will be officially nj this morning that Dean Henry
 Wright, of the academic departrnel 2 at Yale, will serve for another yeaEs after this one in his present capacitygs Dean Wright handed in his resignation3 some time ago to take effect with th6S close of t1le present academic year, iis June. His present decision, it is under3} stood, comes after the earnest solicita- ton of the committee, headed by Pro- lessor Seymour, which has been ap- pointed to select a new dean for the academic department and has found It's task no easy one. With June now com ing rapidly on, the committee has real ized that 1t will have more and more difficulty in getting another man of Dean Wright's caliber. If, indeed. such a man could be found and be induced to take up the work even if the com. Emittee had plenty of time at it's dis3f lposal
 As a result the committee went to' the dean and put the matter before him in that light and asked him to postpone his retirement for another year Dean Wright has decided that he will do so. But, as one has said, Tt is Merely putting off the evil day. 's l There is a certain fact of great in terest to his thousands of admirers In, this decision, in that at the end of tf.e scholastic year ending June, 1909 Dean Wright will have served in his present capacity, as dean of the aca- ldemic department for a round quarter lcentury. He began his work as dean lin 1884 The regular age limit set by |the university, SS. will have been lreached next June, at the time origin
 ally set by Dean Wright for his retire. 1 ment But, just as Dean Wright has
 made a remarkable dean in every re-
 spect, just so at 6S he may be looked
 on ais young for retirement.
 I The difficulties encountered in try ling to find 9 successor to Dean Wright
 have not been few. He has combined
 rare qualities As a teacher as an
 adviser as disciplinarian and as 3
 friend, he has won his place in [
 hearts of all with whaYn lsH l5lsssssz IT;
 in contact. He is the one fignSe rna'' ' stands out in boldest relief in the hisl
 tory of the academic department dirl
 ing the last twenty-five years Tht committee which will choose another
 to take his place will have no easy
 task to find another such man, and
 having got him, to be able to lool
 forward for another quarter century < lin the development of Yale and Yale life, and feel convinced that this mar can make as enviable a record as hi
 predecessor has set as a model fo,
 him.
 } In treating of the deans new de
 cision the Yale Alumni Weekly thi morning will give a summary of tn, development of the dean's office, a.
 follows:
 Tn the early days the president wa the only permanent officer, the tutor
 being his assistants oh temporary ap
 pointment The president gave all Q
 the instruction that the seniors re
 ceived and more too, the other classe being under the charge of the tutors : By 179s the freshman class (1s02) wa 3 So charge that it was divided into o7tw t divisions, a tutor having charge of tn s recitations and discipline of each sec 8 tion. h 1922 the freshman class (1S2e ' was divided into three sections. an
 this arrangement, says Dean Wrigh s in his report for 190S-4 from which tn : facts are taken, remained in force fc : many years. In 1S2s-3o Horace Bush - nell, then a freshman tutor, urged d change which would bring each tutc y into association by rotation, with a