The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
YALE PROFESSORS
 ARE WRITING MANY
 HISTORICAL WORKS
Studies Being Made of Early American History-Nine- teen Volumes Published
 in Recent Years

New Haven, Conn, May 20.-Un- dergraduates at Yale University, in the belief of Prof. Charles M. An drews. Farnam Professor of Ameri- can History, have little idea of the research work carried out by mem bers of the various faculties. To un- lock the gates that the students may view in adequate proportion some of the results accomplished and some of the tasks now being carried out, Prof Andrews has made a review. In predatory way the professor says: The undergraduate concerns himself business. down to that of the janitors and old clothes men. but of the work that centers in the administration building of the Graduate School he Is blessedly ignorant"
 Research and publication have d stsnding in certain quarters where football scores and th7 glories of athletics are not always rated accord ing to undergraduate standards, the professor goes on to say, Yale is the mother of scholars as well as of men" he adds, and the dwellers in the undergraduate plains might do worse than to find out something of how the other half lives and to ap- preeiate that the upper tnot the sub merged) tenth is doing for tn 1sti- tuition in which it lives"
 Print Ninteen Volumes
 The Historical department has turned out nineteen volumes in nine years in the task Of enabling the world to understand the significance of it's own past" Three more vol umes are in the rress and five more we'll along in prepa ion. Of the nineteen published volumes eleven are doctoral dissertations. Of the re- matnder two have Teen contributed by writers in other inf itutions.
 Professor emeritus c. B. Adams is writing on early English legal and constitutional history. Professor Allen Johnson is completing The Chronicles of America assisted by Profs. Farrand and / ndrews The last named Is working on early Eng fish taxation and the colonial period of American history. Prof. S. K Mitchell in a chapter on early Eng fish ta-ation is describi; the mach inery of local taxation and tracing it under the sons of Henry II.
 Prof. C. Seymour writing on European diplomacy ince 1e14. As- sociate Professor C. H. Haring is out lining a history of South America: Assistant Professor R. H. Gabriel is working on volume on the history of American Agriculture: Assistant Professor K. l. Asakawa is studying the feudal regime in Japan which will b the first work to treat with the development of feudal institu- tfons in that country from a com9ar- ative standpoint. with a view of con tributing essential data to an under standing ofsth place that feudalism occupies in the social evolution of man. Assistant Professor I. C. Archer + working on Mohammed as mystic. Medieval English insti- lions are being studied by Assist ant Professor R. A. Newhall: Assist ant Professor J. M. s. Allison Is writing a life of TLiers: Instructor Dumas Malone is writing on the economist, Thomas Cooper; Instruct or F. J. Manning Is examining Great Britair's imperial defens of the colonies; and Instructo Van Slyck Is engaged upon a story of the slect- oral reform der he esterati. n and the July monarchy in France. Every member of the historical de- partment is at work or is outlining tasks. Prof. Andrews says. of which the undergraduate as little or 10 knowledge.