New-York tribune., 1909-06-30
YALE'S LOVING TRIBUTE
REWARDS OLD TEACHERS.
DR.. Hadlegs Report Presages Adop-
ton of English "HOnor" System.

New Haven, June 20 (SpeciaD-Never before has
a group OF retiring Yale professors been honored
Dean Henry F Wright. William Graham Sum
ner, Charles B. Richards and Bernadotte Perrin
were honored to-day. They cease active work at
the end of the present college year, and at the
general alumni meeting this morning they received
r"7rV tributes. being euoeized by President Had
ley in his annual report and by Clifford Pinchot
oy, aid every other aumnus who spoke at the
meeting
A fund was started by Cornelius Vanderbilt, %.
in honor of Professor Wright, who has been dean
of the graduate department for twenty-five years
Mr. Vanderbilt gave $1,000 for the purpose, and
made a member of the committee 10 take
charge of subscriptions TO the fund and to confer
with the Yale officials relative to its disposal The
other members of the committee Henry +.
Rogers, IS: Charles W Bingham, '6S David
Daggett, 70; Louis c Hay. 81; William Kent,
81; Wallace D. Simmons, 81: Noah H. Swayne'
I'd, '93. and Thomas Arbuthnot, 81
President Hadleys report for the current year
discusses the dminution in the study of Greek.
and its effect: the possibility of combining modern
culture studies with the od-fashioned requirement
OF hard work the considerations which should
govern the choice Of professors and the posi-
bility Of introducing honor courses like those OF
oxford Cambridge into the American college.
In his comment On the present position Of Greek
he starts from the statements made by President
Garfield of Williams College that both the Ian
guage and the method of instruction have been
and partly because il has been studied long enough
for teachers TO agree upon certain fixed order or
reading the different authors and that these con-
sideratons. in the words OF President Garfield.
give to Greek, to Latin. peculiar claim 10
consideration a discipline, wholly aside from
tie question of literary quality and historic value
President Hadey continues follows
What does this last clause mean It means.
think that il man has passed an examination IN
Greek you know that he has studied Greek to some
purpose. ana is likely work to the same pur-
pose in other things he may take up. Greek is an
intellectual where the umpire5 know the
rules better than they know the rules in the game
of French for instance or history or botany. \
mans rating in examination any one Of
these last three subjects is largely the result Of
skiiful mans rating in Greek, the other
hand, means something. There never We're intel
lectual competitions keener than the classical com
petitions at oxford in the days when the best men
In England wanted their sons 10 learn that par
tIculaT game.
Unfortunately, a large number of the strongest
men, both in England and in the United States
have decided that this game takes more time than
II IS worth. Personally, believe that this change
Of mind was in many respects a misfortune; that
in trying 10 get more practical results in the way
OF knowledge or culture a great many American
college boys have lost the training which the GTes
would have given them and gained nothing of
equal value in its place. But colleges cannot teach
a thing 10 a public which does not want 10 study
II: and we must recognize the fact that in
creasing part OF the American public does not care
effective of the Greek language s a means Of
n fEFlu