The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-12

nave ample opportunity To conduct graduate courses. A number of fellowsh:ps were se- cured; and Professor Arthur T. Hadley was appointed the first dean If the graduate faculty, to be succeeded two years later by Professor Andrew W. Phil lips.
 As the years passed, these improvements were offset by the larger demands for gradu- ate instruction occasioned by an increase in the number of stu dents. Though excellent work was still done in several depart- ments, the tendency was to es- tablish courses of study differ ing in no essentials from those in the undergraduate schools. And even of these courses the number that could be given in any year was dependent upon the load of elementary teach ing, always uncertain, that the professors might be called upon to bear. Nor was there any one body responsible for main- taining uniform standard for degrees. The M. A. degree was then, as it always had been, under the jurisdiction of the faculty of Yale college. Though no longer granted for fee, it was of two kinds. It was con- ferred upon graduates of Yale college for essays based upon reading pursued in absentia un- der the general direction of some member of the faculty, or upon graduates of similar insti- tutions who came into residence for a year, provided they could meet the requirements of the curriculum of Yale college in the Latin language and litera- ture. Because of an insufficient knowledge of Latin, graduates of the Sheffield Scientific school were Ineligible for the M. A. degree; and to meet the situa- tion, the Sheffield Scientific school was permitted by the corporation to supply the M. S. degree, in addition to the form CT degrees in engineering, for it's graduates and for others in whose education Latin had played a minor part. The only degree within the sole jurisdic- tion of the graduate faculty was the Ph, p. degree. which was administered by committee whose chairman, called Dean. was an active member of the faculty of Yale college.
 Such was the situation that tnI he was appointed dean of the graduate faculty in 1911. Dur Ing his term of office, which was unfortunately short, the corporation, with the consent of the faculty of Yale college, transferred to his Jurisdiction the administration of the M. A. degree. The requirements for this degree were soon put upon a sound basis. No work done in absen.ia was 70 be any longer accepted; and the period of study was to be extended to two years. Owing, however. to many commitments the new program could not go into complete effect until 1916; and to. Dean Oertels great disap- pointment an attempt to create a graduate school coordinate with the :. other schools of the university met with a resistance so obstinate that 1t could not be overcome. There was as yet no graduate school. Professor Ger tel, still retaining his professor ship in Yale college, was only dean of a section of the old faculty of the department of philosophy and the arts.
 By 1916, when I came to the clearing. With unanimous con- sent there were organized at once three faculties called divi- sions: to wit, Language, Litera- ture, and the Arts, History and the Social Sciences, and Mathe- matics and the Natural Sciences. which, while reserving certain educational functions. placed the general administration in the hands of an executive board composed of professors of the first rank whose interests were mainly n graduate studies. A long step vas thus taken to- wards a graduate school in fact as well as in name. As the next step the executive board, at a meeting on November 29, 1918. voted 10 transmit to the corpo- ration tor its information and for such action as that body might think proper the follow ing resolutions as expressing the opinion of the executive board on the organization and development of the graduate school:
 l. That the sphere of the graduate school and the author rately determined.
 2. That immediate considera- tion be given to the question of placing under the Jurisdiction of the graduate school the ad- ministration of all advanced degrees and certificates in science, comprising at present the degree of Master of Science, the Certificate in Public Health and the higher engineering de- grees.
 3. That consideration be given to transferring from the under graduate faculties professors whose work should lie pri- marily m the graduate school.
 4. That efforts be made to secure general endowment for the maintenance and develop ment of the graduate school.
 5. That efforts be made to se- cure endowment for a sub stantial increase in the number of adequately supported uni versity professorships to be assigned by the corporation to the graduate school.
 Among the subjects in which there is now pressing need for such nrofessorships are the following: (a) Political Science, (b) Physical Chemistry, (c) Geography, (d) Philosophy. (e) Education. (f) the Literature and Civilization of the Latin Races.
 6. That an adequately en- dowm.nt and equipped depart ment of education represents one of the university's great needs and large opportunities for public service.
 2. That efforts be made to