Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

 - Class of 1931

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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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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-DANQGR AND PC9'l3POUl2l2l . tic group the departments of English and history have long enjoyed a high and well- deserved prestige, and both are maintaining, and indeed improving, their enviable posi- tion. The program of the social sciences in the fields of economics, government, in- cluding international relations, sociology, and anthropology has been within a half dozen years so developed and strengthened as to be almost revolutionary. While we are sure that the conditions in the natural sci- ences and in engineering can be distinctly improved, the staff, on which are found many men of outstanding distinction, is be- ing constantly strengthened, and the schol- arly productivity of the group, judged both quantitatively and qualitatively, is not ex- celled by any division of the University. The interesting and novel program of the lnsti- tute of Human Relations has already been mentioned. The professional schools and the Graduate School have, by common consent, come in the last few years into the very forefront of American professional schools. This result has been brought about, partly as the outcome of imaginative and thor- oughly sound developments of their educa- tional ideals and methods, partly by drastic selection of their students, and partly by the addition to their staffs of many men of no- table distinction, not a few of them scholars of international reputation. All seven of these professional schools now have their program of studies so articulated with the Graduate School that properly qualified stu- dents in them may become candidates for the masters and doctors degrees, if they de- cide to turn the emphasis of their work from the purely professional to the more distinctly scholarly side. The creative pro- ductivity of the faculties of these schools is extremely striking. The steady advance in the scholarly quality and achievement of the students in all divisions of the University is notable and unmistakable. ln view of all these facts then, no one should allow the great masses of Yale's new buildings to screen from his vision the pro- foundly vital and scholarly activities which are going forward within their wallsg nor to confuse his judgment with the impression that her heart is wholly set on the purely physical accoutrements of education, beau- tiful and majestic though these may be. lt may be true, as thoughtful men have believed, that there is a certain rugged spirit of intellectual and moral growth which sometimes thrives best in the lean soil of economic restriction, and even of poverty. But, for better or for worse, there can equally be no question that much of the most important and humanly fruitful work of modern scholarship, both in physical sci- ence and in the humanities, requires costly . 4 laboratories and shops, expensive apparatus and rare books and all the paraphernalia of methods of precision, which inevitably in- volve relatively large expenditures. We might be a bit disturbed, if any of our pos- sessions threatened to sap intellectual or physical or moral vitality through the insidi- ous appeal of a soft luxuryg but this seems a very fantastic fear, for while we have striven for beauty, wherever it could be se- cured, we have also striven for efficiency, conceiving this on every level as something .K- fiil ...... . RA..- 51-1 The Department of Health in which the intrinsic fitness of means to ends must always be decisive, something to which financial cost, whether small or great, is wholly secondary. We are seeking the best and only the best and we shall never be content until we have secured it. ln the presence of great personalities, we need have no fear of any malign influence emanating from purely economic or physi- cal circumstance, and without the presence of such personalities the great work of the University can really never go forward, no matter what the environment. I7

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