The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-23

German type tends to predominant. In
universities like Princeton, and perhaps
to a still greater degree in the large
body of smaller colleges of the country,
like Dartmouth or Amherst or Will
Jams, which do not call themselves uni
versities, the English type and ideal
finds expression. In places like Yale
or Harvard the two systems Of educa-
ton exist side by side. We have the
college, Which constitutes tire end Of
the play time, and the professional Or
graduate school, which constitutes the
beginning of the work time. Even
when the undergraduate and the
graduate are pursuing the same studies
they tend to pursue them with differ
ent purposes. The undergraduate
studies a subject because he wan to
know 1t, the graduate because he wants
to teach it.
"For the present I regard it as a
fortunate, even If somewhat illogical,
thing that we have not made definite
choice between these two conceptions
of a university, We need the under
graduate life to make a centre of cul-
ture in a community too prone to value
things on a practical basis. alone. We
need the graduate and professional
schools to give an example of ,vigor
of work I'M intensity of application,
without which culture alone SO easily
|degenerates into idleness.
Contrasts Harvard and Yalc.
II have spoken of Yale and Harvard
as representing the combination Of
these two university ideals in equal
measure. But in regard to the relation
of these two parts of university life to
one another there is an important diff
ference in the spirit of the two places.
It is the Harvard idea to keep them
apart; it is the Yale idea to tie them
together. Harvard stands for the DO
sition that a man should complete his
college course before beginning pro-
fessional study. Let it be a short
course, If he Wnl-three years instead
of four-but let him be devoting those
three years to culture and not to pro-
fessional work. Yale, on the other
hand, encourages a man to study the
theory of his profession as a part of
the work for the bachelors degree. In
the scientific school this Is the funda-
mental principle on which the course is
arranged. In the academic department
it becomes an increasingly important
element in the choice of electives. We
believe in this policy, not simply b.
cause it saves the time of the student,
though his is a great Incidental adj
vantage, but because 1t also increases
the students intensity of application.
Where Harvard insists on making the
student broad, at the risk of allowing
him to grow weak, Yale insists on max
ing him strong, at the, risk of allowing
him to grow narrow. Time alone can
show which of these principles is the
better. Each place has problems
enough of it's own not so spend time
cri,icising the work of others.
THE great need that meets us in the
solution of our problem is the need for
men who are competent to take tile
lead in teaching. There are needed in
every generation disinterested students
of cienee and letters who viii prefer
the meager rewards, of the teaching
profession to&the larger returns which
would a~waitSthem as practitioners III
their various lines. But the supply IT
such men never has been equal to the
need: and in recent years the number
of inspiring teachers has not kept pace
with the increase in the number Of
earnest students.
Secon6-Rate Professors.
Our faculties and presidents can 10
something to meet this difficulty by in
sistiEg on having a few flrst-rate pro-
fessors instead of spending the same
amour Of money for Il number OF
s~econd-rate ones. But the real reform
must come from outside. 1t must come
in a recognition of the fact that plain
living and high thinking, however at
tractive as an ideal OF life, is not al
ways an a~lluring prospect for the man
of practical ambition with a family to
support.
''The problem for the American uni /
versities of the next generation is not
primarily a problem of organization,
important as organization must be. 1T
il primarily a problem of maintaining
and Nevating the character of the men
go into university teaching as a
career" 4
DR.. Stephen Pierson, of Morristown.
of the class of 'GS, responded to the
toast Medical Men"
John J. Hogan. a Yale. man, and
graduate of 1905, deputy Commissioners
of street cleaning in New York city,
gave a ak on Muck Rakers.'