New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-07
THIRD COLLEGE IDEA
OPPOSED BY HADLEY
Yale President, in Report,
Shows Projects Weak
Points.
SAYS S3,000,000
COST PROHIBITIVE
Calls on Graduates to Aid Uni
versity by Showing They
Value Intellectual Effort.

New Haven. Dec. 6.-Arthur T. Had
ley. president of Yale, in his annual
report made public to-day, vigorously
combats the proposal to establish
third college at New Haven, which has
been informally agitated in the univer-
sity press for nearly year and has
created considerable interest among
graduates.
Admitting that the project sounds
most attractive and confessing that
under the circumstances it seems al
most ungracious 10 point out oblec-
tions. he proceeds to emphasize what
he terms serious defects in the plan.
He estimates the cost at S3,0OOOOO
practically prohibitive, argues that
fundamental objection to the PROPOSE
ton is that the third college would fail
to satisfy either the schools. the stu
dents or the parents, and declares that
H. does not furnish intellectual slim
illus, which is even more fundamental
and lack of which he contends is the
principal difficulty that confronts Yale.
"Many believe that this lack of gem
eral interest in study is due to the
size Of the college and the heterogene-
ity of the student body the report
goes on. "Such men say, Make the
colleges smaller Instead Of having
two undergraduate departments, the
academic and scientific, have three or
perhaps more.
"As compared with our present or
ganization at Yale this would mean:
"A separation of the select course
from the Sheffield Scientific School
leaving that school, more exclusively
than it now is, college for the pro-
motion of the physical, natural and
mathematical sciences-to quote the
terms of the charter of the Sheffield
Trust This would probably involve
a loss of about one-third the present
membership of the department.
"A conservative policy in regard TO
academic entrance requirements, in or
der 10 secure a more homogeneous stu
dent body; and corresponding re-
strictiOn of the distinctively academic
teaching 10 meet the needs of those
who desire an education of the old
fashioned type. based on thorough pre-
paratory school work in foreign lam
guages.
How large number would thus be
excluded it is difficult to guess; per-
haps three hundred, or as many, in
round numbers. as now attend the Sc
loct course in the Scientific School.
"A gathering Of these two groups
into third college which does not re-
quire so much mathematics as is nee
essary for the student of science. nor
so much Latin as is necessary for those
who wish TO pursue college course Of
the old-fashioned type
In celebrating his assertion that a
third college would fail to satisfy the
three classes most affected, President
Hadley continues:
"To get the required three millions
it would be necessary to appeal TO large
donors, and so far as the experience of
this Office goes, the third college would
not furnish an effective ground of ap-
peal. One of the greatest difficulties
that Yale has had in securing money
has been the apparent duplication OF
teaching facilities in her two under
graduate departments. If we had three
instead Of two, we should have triplica-
tion instead of duplication.
"Still another defect of the plan. less
obvious but more fundamental than
those already analysed. is that il would
fail to satisfy either the schools, the
students or the parents.
"A boy goes to college not primarily
nor wholly for the sake of pursuing
certain studies, but for the sake of
breathing certain atmosphere, Of
competing for certain traditional re-
wards of undergraduate life. Such an
atmosphere and such intangible oppor-
tunities cannot be created in day. A
50 100000 endowment will not produce
them. II will simply prepare the
ground on which they can grow. Forty
years ago the Scientific School had an
admirable course of instruction. Edu-
cationally it was a college Of the first
rank. But its numbers were kept down
by the fact that it did not as yet have
the traditions of a college-the associ-
ations that are created outside of the
laboratory and the classroom. Since
that time these have grown, and it now
stands side by side with the academic
department as a coordinate member of
the university"
President Hadey laments that the
boy who goes to college neglects his
opportunities. He therefore calls on
the graduates Of Yale to render what
he terms the greatest possible service
by showing that they value intellectual
attachments and the opportunities for
culture that Yale gives. In extra-cur-
riculum activities also, the president
holds, the graduate may accomplish
much by insisting that these activities
shall be in "A true sense educational;
that thy shall call for honest effort
and achievement, rathe. than a parade
of effort or a semblanee Of achieve
ment
The report goes e.. length into the
subject Of university ideals. always
with the idea of emphasizing the need
for creating the greatest possible in
tensity of intellectual life.