The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-14
PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP.


 PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP.
 Not long ago the Harvard Bulletin published some of it's findings in re- gard to the Harvard faculty Among them it was shown that SS per cent. of the Harvard faculty was made up of non-H Harvard men, who came from half a dozen different countries. The Boston Transcript took the matter up | and made some seemingly worthy | comments.
 The Transcript showed the great advantages that accrued from cos mopolitan faculty. It was mighty good chance for Harvard to pat liar yard on the back and Harvard was not loath to take advantage of the chance. The fact at once suggested a sure proof of the legitimacy of every faculty policy at Harvard. Keep ing in mind some of Harvard's faculty decisions in football and other mat ters. there could not have been Yale man who disagreed with the Tran script when it said: Whatever views the academic world at large may en- certain regarding the soundness of Harvard's educational methods, there are few who will seriously gainsay her primacy in new and suggestive aca- demic undertakings The only matter that could be questioned was what it was Suggestive" of. But the Yale readers began to vince when the Transcript cast reflections on Old Ell, saving: Ut might be interesting to know, if 1t were not too hazardous to ask, how many members of the Yale faculty are not graduates of Yale col lege," and added sarcastically: The curse of inbreeding is doubtless as fatal to institutions as to men, as dis astrous to intellectual virility and spontaneity. In the ac- ademic cosmopolitanism of her facul- \ ty Harvard appears to have possessed herself of one of the most effective agencies of progressive leadership
 The slur sank deep in Yale hearts Intellectual virility and spontaneity," :" "agencies of progressive leadership were these things lacking at Yale, in deed? But (prase bel the Yale Alumni Weekly has come forward just in the nick of time with the very fig ures desired to meet the Transcript. In it's last number the Weekly shows that there are at present 190 teach CTS at Yale In the "college," Shelf" and in the graduate school faculties. Of these 190 there are seventy one or Ss per cent that are not Yale men. As the Transcripts figures of 93 per cent. were relative to the Harvard arts and sciences faculty just comparison can be made. Among the full profes- sors at Yale 37 per cent. are non Yale men: among the assistant pro fessors 33 per cent are non-Yale; and among the instructors fully 40 per cent. are Yale. Thus 1t may be clearly seen that whatever credit Harvard may claim for herself be- cause of her cosmopolitan" faculty like credit to an even greater degree
 may be claimed by Yale.
 Thus Yale. too. has some sort of a claim to intellectual virility' and progressive leadership" The las thirty years, and particularly the years since pr. Hadley took the reins a : Yale in 1899 have seen grea : change in the faculty policy in thi. regard. Before 1877 but one Yal, 1, professorship had been held by non ; Yale man Even that man had stud 5 jed two years at Yale and was no ? without his knowledge of Yale GUS : toms and ways even though he hat | not graduated. An idea of how thi . policy has been changed can in n, . way be better shown than by men { tioning the fact that in the "college, ] in the last thirty years. there hay e been forty-eight appointments to ful . professorships, of whom twenty-sever . or 56 per cent, have not been Yal } graduates. Since Professor Hadley' $ coming there have been twenty-thre :. permanent professors appointed in tn - college" in "Sheff.." and in the grad Q uate school. Of these thirteen, or , |. per cent, have not been Yale grad . uates.
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