The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
YALE PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY TO PARK R||| CITY BOYS {
Hf3f,fl.i M Bridgeporters May, Profit Much
 by New Haven Institution, Says Wilder.

The Yale Alumni ASSOc1at1On or
 Fairfield County gathered last evening
 in the University club and heard Amas P. Wilder. former United States con
 sul to Chinna,. discuss their Alma
 Mater. MT. Wilder declared Bridge port boys have an exceptional oppor-
 tunity for getting theb est education
 because of the proximity of the uni-
 versity to this city.
 Colored slides of Oriental life were shown. A dinner was served at 7:30 o'clock MT. Wilder said:
 ''No city, next to New Haven, may profit so much by Yale as Bridgeport. It is only 30 minutes distant by rail; many families live equally distant by trolley from the Yale campus and their children enjoy matchless op-
 portunities. The medical school now admits young women. It has full professors and six assistant profes- lsors; it has a new vital Seqppeetion with the New Haven hospital. Many an ambitious Bridgepbrt hos.sscan enter this open door if he. wills Only one law school (Harvard) has 1arg- CT permanent faculty than Yale, with it's 10 full-time teachers. The new Dean-Swan, late of Chicago, is a choice man. Standards have been rufhless1y raised in this departm In 190S-9 there were ASA regular stu dents in3ths Yale law school, plus 200 The next year aadmission was conditioneds9 Oh having ? years
 work in college, and in 1911 col 1ege degree was made essential to ad- mission. The effect was, to cut the student body down to 130 (the present number), but Yale's ambition to have the law school in the front~rank will be attained The school of religion is a broader place under Dean Charles R. Brown, who vas brought from the Pacific coast few years ago. He is a powerful preacher; the students
 voted him recently their fayorite. He is an Abraham Lincoln sort of man from the Middle West-without sfriz- zes, with grippy conl1non sense. .In sixteen years the Forestry , school has sent out 500 trained for esters; $50 of them with the full de- gree. Clifford Pinchot, and his suc- cessors have been Yale men in the main- At present Dean sToomey is projecting the influence of his school into South America and China, where he has some clever graduates.
 MT. Wilder spoke of the Hardness
 gift of $3,0O0,000 which will make it possible to house all the students on
 the campus and the revenue from rents will be most acceptable. Of { the intellectual life ,offthe campus, he said history and English literature are more stressed than in his day There Z is movement to make, the Sheffield xrn fn11y txy<,<ar ar. O lect course is much criticised as a shortcut to culture and a Yale de- gree; it is felt that scientific school should deal in science. It is a delight to live among the enthusiastic, poten-
 tial young fellows who constitute the
 student body. Youth is always at tractive-it is genuine, disinterested
 and looking for the hard thing to do. The responsibility of those who can touch young lives like these is great. One can do most anything with boy
 at that age. At New Haven, as at all
 such places, he is subjected to influen-
 ces good and bad. The call of the class room and of the intellectual and
 religious activities of the place is bracing; mo student can wholly es- cape theses < Thus he is better off than many as young man in a factory or otherwise at work. On the other hand there are reckless youths some with too much money-Or otherwise unwholesome-and how a lad will stand up to this depends a good deal
 on his home and previous training. It seems strange that colleges should be such time of sitting for youth,
 but it has ever been so. The sspeaker said that sas he grew older: cha acter
 was theFehief paFt of the educat onal game. hs hsa aesonld analyze 1t, the thing to do is to, get our boys
 under the right sort of men and .wo-
 men those, who will call ont their
 best side. For sthis reason, too, the
 best friends ofs }, Y ale will emphasize her serions and earnest interests The
 others will be well cared for by en-
 thusiasts."