South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-17
STUDENTS HAVE NO
IDEA OF WORK OF
VARIOUS FACULTIES
Average Students Blessedly
Ignorant of What Is Going
On in Research Work.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, May Ia
Undergraduate at Yale University,
In the belief of Prof Charles NJ.
Andrews. Farnam Professor Of
American History. have little idea
Of the research work carried out
by members of the various faculties.
To unlock the gates that the students
may view in adequate proportion
some of the result accomplished and
some of the tasks now being carried
out. Prof Andrews has made a re-
view. In a PREDATORY way the pro-
fessor SAYS: The undergraduate
concern himself with a good deal Of
extra-curriculum business, down 70
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 igno-
rant"
Research an publication have a
standing in certain quarters where
football scores and the glories OF
athletics are not always rated &C
cording to undergraduate standards,
the professor goes on to say, Yale
is the mother of the scholars as we'll
as Of man" he adds. and the dwell
ers in the undergraduate plains
might do worse than 10 find out
something of how the other half
lives and TO appreciate what the
upper (not the submerged tenth Is
doing for the institution in which 1t
| lives"
The Historical department has
turned out 10 volumes in nine years
/ in the tack Of enabling the world
I TO understand the significance of its
/ own past" Three more volumes are
4 in the press and five more well along
/ in preparation. OF the 70 published
volumes Il are doctoral disserta
/ tons OF the remainder two have
/ been contributed by writer's in other
institutions.
Professor-emeritus G. B. Adams 5
writing on early English legend and
constitutional history. Prof Allen
Johnson is completing The Chroni-
Giles of America. !" assisted by Profs
Farrand and Andrews. The last
named is working on early English
/ taxation and the colonial period OF
American history. Prof. 5. X Nit
chell. in a chapter on early English
taxation is describing the machinery
of local taxation and tracing il under
the sons of Henry II.
Prof G. Seymour is writing on
European diplomacy since 1914
Associate Professor c. II. Haring &:
outlining a history Of South America
4 u
working on a volume on the history
OF American Agriculture. Assistant
+ Professor X. I. Asakawa is studyins
the feudal regime i'm Japan. which
Will be the first work to treat with
the development OF feudal institu
tons in that country from a com
parative standpoint with view o,
contributing essential data TO an un.
Outstanding OF the place that feudal
ism occupies in the social evolution
OF men. Assistant Professor :. c
T Archer is working on Mohammed a.
a mystic Medieval English insti
tutions are being studied BY Assistant
r. A Professor Newall Assistant
f Professor J. ". s. Allison is writins
a life OF Theirs; Instructor Dumas
Malone is writing on the economist
Thomas Cooper; Instructor F
Manning IS examining Grea
Br.tains imperial defense Of tn,
colonies: and Instructor Van Slycl
is engaged upon story Of the cleo
,oral reform under the restoration
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 has little or M
KNOWLEDGE