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YALG-DANJGIZ AND PGD'l1PCDUl2l2l sites upon which will stand any of the new units. They have, in general, attempted to avoid all personal names belonging to the last century-in other words to forego in- cursion into the realm of contemporary af- fairs, with the inevitably acute controversial atmosphere likely to attach to such proce- dure. Finally, they have tried to exercise due regard to the outstanding figures, or events, in Yale history and in the history of the New Haven Colony. With these considerations in mind, they propose to retain three names now in use. The buildings on the southeast corner of Elm and High Streets will be called Berkeley College, after Bishop George Berkeley, thus leaving unchanged a name already asso- ciated with this location for about twenty years, the name of one of the most eminent of British thinkers and one of the most gen- erous of the early benefactors of Yale. The Memorial Quadrangle, as has been repeat- edly announced, is to be divided into two units, the one fronting on Elm Street, in which is found Saybrook Court, will be known as Saybrook College, carrying for- The Sterling Law Buildings -3 ' J ward the name of the town where the Col- legiate School of Connecticut was first defi- nitely established. The unit facing Branford Court will be called Branford College, thus perpetuating one of the fine old names in Yale's early history. Of the two new units now in process of construction, the one fac- ing Park Street will carry the name of Abra- ham Pierson, the first Rector of the College and will be known as Pierson College. The one coming through on to York Street will be named after john Davenport, the founder of the New Haven Colony, who originally and persistently insisted that a college should be planted here, and this will be known as Davenport College. The Committee is still at work on names for the remaining colleges. Those already determined upon have been wisely chosen. They not only mark men or places of out- standing significance in Yale and New Ha- ven history, but they also have the not unimportant merit of being at once eupho- nious and possessed of a certain intrinsic dignity. Another question with which the Com- mittee has dealt is the title of the men to be in charge of the Colleges. Here a super- abundance of riches was encountered:- Provost, Warden, Dean, Principal, Presi- dent, Master--the list is long. The Commit- tee finally settled upon the term Master and the Corporation has accepted the pro- posal. Associated with him will be the Fel- lows of the College, many of whom we ex- pect to live in College, but not necessarily all. Houses are being erected for the Mas- ters in, or in conjunction with, the Colleges, and there they and their families will ordi- narily live. As has been made clear in the presenta- tion of the program during the last year or two, we anticipate rather fundamental changes in the character of the undergradu- ate life, and not the least of these promises to spring from a growth of interest in intra- mural, as contrasted with intercollegiate athletics. The change comes at a time when many other influences were contributing to bring about a like result, and, for my own part, l look forward to it with the utmost enthusiasm. ln general, l have felt that Yale athletics were being conducted in accordance with thoroughly high ideals and, for the most part, with effectiveness. Of course, the high moral position accorded us in the report of the Carnegie Foundation survey does little to assuage the grief and wrath of those graduates who have made loyal, but finan- cially ill-advised, wagers upon football con- tests., l myself have not been too greatly disturbed by the loss of a few games, but I I5
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YALG-PANSIGII AND PGJ'l1PGDUl2l2 l i THE NEW YALE By james Rowland Angell N addition to the many compelling prob- lems which have already been brought to light in earlier discussions of the Quad- rangle Plan, the new program presents not a few questions affecting terminology which must be settled-at least provisionally. We have had a committee at work on the issue, consisting of the Secretary of the University and the Dean of Yale College, who have in- vited many other persons into conference, and the Corporation has approved their re- ort. p ln the first place, what generic designa- tion shall be given these new units? Har- vard calls its corresponding establishments l-louses. We have been calling ours Quadrangles. Others have wished to call them Halls, None of these practices seems to our Committee quite expedient for Yale, and, after due deliberation, we have decided to revert to an earlier Yale practice, in common use as late as l888, and call them Colleges The only material objec- tions which to my knowledge have been of- fered to this proposal are, first, the con- flict with the prevailing American usage whereby an educational institution in its entirety is called a College, for example, Amherst College, or Williams Collegeg and, second, the possible confusion with the teaching and educational unit now known as Yale College. To be sure, the undergradu- ate never speaks of the College, but more conveniently, if less elegantly, of Ac. But the graduates of the more recent decades have come to entertain a possibly hyper- sensitive regard for the title Yale College as the designation of a special portion of the undergraduate organization. Until i887 Yale College was the corporate name of what we now know as Yale University, and included not only the academical depart- ment, so-called in the official publications, but also Law, Medicine, Divinity, and the Sheffield Scientific School. But there will be many graduates in this audience who will recall the titles Farnam College, South Col- lege, North College, Durfee College, and so forth, all names clearly designating dormi- tory buildings and used without derogation from the significance of the title Yale Col- lege as the inclusive educational term. There is, in addition to the traditional reason for resuscitating this Yale usage, only recently discontinued-recently at least if one has regard to the full 230 years of the life of the institution-the further consideration that, as the plan is now conceived, there promises to be no little distinctly educa- I4 tional work carried on by these new units, not in separation from the educational con- trol of the College and the Scientific School, but supplementary to these and constituting intrinsic portions of the general educational program whose culmination is marked by the conferring of degrees under the primary jurisdiction of these older groups. This work promises to be in appreciable measure of a tutorial character, and if the term College as employed in current usage is felt to stress explicitly educational organizations, rather than residential establishments, this teach- ing function to which I have referred may still further justify the proposed procedure. The Alumni Board has been consulted, as well as its Committee on the College, and no objection has been raised in either quar- ter. So we start our program with the term College once more in active use as a title for the new residential units. Having proceeded thus far, the Commit- tee turned its attention to the specific names which might wisely be used for the first of the new Colleges. As far as possible, they have sought to retain appropriate names already in use in connection with the The Whitney Gymnasium
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'-l YALG--DABNGIZ AND PC9'l1PGJUl2l2l have nevertheless felt that our athletic methods reflected in' too large measure a point of view, and an atmosphere, which is now outgrown and that we should pres- ently recognize the changed circumstances by definite, and at points fairly radical, al- terations of our procedure. Our present ad- ministrative organization, which, when adopted in l9l6, marked a great advance over previous procedure, is now somewhat ill-adapted to current conditions. Among other changes a substantial simplification, with the sharper definition and more effec- tive centralizing of responsibility, seems to be both desirable and practicable. The approaching completion of the great Payne Whitney Gymnasium will furnish us an occasion, which I welcome, to restudy our entire program in the matter of the super- vision of student health, physical education, and athletics, and l hope we may work out a plan which, without sacrificing whatever is good in our intercollegiate contests and relations-and there is much-will give relatively far more consideration than hith- erto to the needs of the average under- graduate, to the cultivation of opportunity and temptation to participate in more infor- mal and purely recreational sports, from which, experience teaches unequivocally, is to be gained so much of physical and social value, so much of sheer wholesome fun. Impressive as are the recent develop- ments of Yale's physical possessions, beau- tiful and gracious as are many of her new buildings, they are, in my judgment, wholly surpassed by the less superficially obvious but more fundamentally enduring and sig- nificant changes which have been in prog- ress in her intellectual and spiritual life. In the fine arts and in the humanities, both classical and modern, there has been a true renaissance of scholarly enthusiasm. This is shown in the productivity of the staff and in the marked increase of student interest in these fields of study. Of great influence in this connection, have been our archaeological expeditions for the excava- tion of the Hellenistic City of Doura-Eu- ropos, in the upper Euphrates Valley, and of certain sites in the beautiful ancient City of jerash in the Transjordan. ln this humanis- The Human Relations Group I6
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