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Corporation James Rowland Angell, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., President Fellows His Excellency the Governor of Connecti- cut, ex officio His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio Rev. William Adams Brown, Ph.D., D.D. George Grant Mason, M.A. Samuel Herbert Fisher, LL.D. Howell Cheney, M.A. Vance Criswell McCormick, LL.D. Francis Parsons, LL.B., M.A. Frederick Trubee Mortimer Norton Buckner, LL.D. Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., LL.D. S.T.D. Fred Towsley Murphy, M.D., M.A. Edward Belden Greene, M.A. Thomas Walter Swan, LL.B., M.A. Reeve Schley, LL.B., M.A. Thomas Day Thacher, LL.D. Rev. Arthur Howe Bradford, D.D. Edward Earned Ryerson, Jr., M.A. Davison, LL.D. Charles Seymour, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D Provost Carl Albert Lohmann, M.A Secretary George Parmly Day, LL.D Treasurer Thomas Wells Farnam, M.A Associate Treasurer and Comptroller Alumni Board OFFICERS William S. Moorehead, o6, 1732 OHver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Henry A. Gardner, 05, 33 South Clark St., Chicago, 111. James M. Holcombe, Jr., ' 11,6 Myrtle St., Hartford, Conn. Carl A. Lohmann, ' 10, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. Chairman First Vice-Chairman Second Vice- Ch a inn a n Acting Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1934-35 Norman P. Clement, ' 07, Buffalo G. Maurice Congdon, ' 09, Providence EcKLEY B. CoxE, 3rd, ex- ' 1 8 S, Philadelphia Elton Hoyt, 2nd, ' 10, Cleveland Gilbert Kinney, ' 05, New York City C. Raymond Messinger, ' 06 S, Milwaukee Livingston Platt, ' 07, New York City Mortimer A. Seabury, ' 09, Boston Vanderbilt Webb, ' 13, New York City James E. Wheeler, ' 92, New Haven

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The Second Year of the College Plan PRESIDENT JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL UNDERGRADUATE Yale has been most affected in the year just closing by three circumstances, on each of which I venture to comment briefly. And first a word concerning developments in Colleges. The second year of the Residential Colleges has seen Berkeley added to the earlier group of seven and, as this article goes to press, Timothy Dwight is nearing completion and will be opened in the autimin under the Mastership of James Grafton Rogers. To the deep regret of every one, Alan Valen- tine, Master of Pierson, leaves us to become President of the University of Rochester. In his two years as head of the College and Chairman of the Board of Admissions, he has made a bril- liant record of which Yale may well be proud. A Fellow of the College, Arnold Wolfers, has been chosen to succeed him. He is a scholar of international distinction in the field of govern- ment and a most delightful companion. In general, life in the Colleges has now be- come so well established that discussion is main- ly directed to transient sources of dissatisfaction, such as too many salads on the menu, or to a few more chronic issues, such as the effort of the College fraternities to secure conditions which will permit the brethren to patronize their grills to greater financial advantage. The incomparable benefits of the College life for the rank and file of students as compared with the conditions which maintained before 1933 are steadily becoming more widely recog- nized. .Self-supporting students, thanks to the bursary funds, are specially and properly ap- preciative. It is interesting to observe the crystallizing of individuality in each of the Colleges. A is quite different in tone from B, while both differ conspicuously from C, yet all have characteristics which are justly appreciated by their members. The sport program has pro- moted a healthy and good-natured rivalry. Most important of the strictly educational steps taken this year is the adoption by the College, the Sheffield Scientific School and the Engineering School o f comprehensive examina- tions to be given late in the senior year, and to cover the entire major subject which will ordin- arily have been pursued for the larger part of the preceding three years. This policy will in- evitably result in a far more thorough mastery of the field of concentration and will issue in a variety of consequences much to be desired — greater independence in work, greater initiative, the stimulation of more genuine thinking power and the like. It will also undoubtedly render the course more difficult and more men will pre- sumably fail at the end. But the compensating advantages are very real and highly important. The third policy which has been gradually developed is one bringing us into much more inti- mate and friendly contact with school boys who expect to come to Yale so that we can be of as- sistance in helping them to plan their work in school and subsequently at Yale, more or less as a unit. As part of this program, we are encourag- ing the schools to give able boys more advanced training than heretofore, so that, when they come to College, they may be entered at once in courses more mature than those ordinarily fol- lowed by freshmen. This year a large part of the Freshman Class has been granted this privilege and the results are in every way admirable. In conclusion, it may be added that this year has seen the establishment of the Y ' ale Political Union, from which we may justly expect fine things. It occurs simultaneously with a marked drift of students into the social sciences, es- pecially economics and government, with a pro- nounced swing toward work in international relations. The University has put forth special effort to make this latter division of our work the strongest offered by any institution either here or abroad. In looking back upon its senior year, the Class of 1935 will always have the pleasure of recalling the battle of Princeton, when a great Yale foot- ball team registered one of the most dramatic victories in the history of that tempestuous sport, to say nothing of the agreeable conference with Harvard the following Saturday. Taken all in all 1935 may well feel that it leaves Yale in sunshine, which only the financial clouds seriouslv threaten. 17

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Officers of Administration James Rowland Angell, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D. Charles Seymour, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D. Carl Albert Lohmann, M.A. George Parmly Day ' , LL.D. Thomas Wells Farnam, M.A. Frederic Blair Johnson, M.A. Harry Judd Ostrander President Provost Secretary Treasurer Associate Treasurer and Comptroller Bursar Cashier in the Treasurer ' s Office BOARD OF ADMISSIONS Alan Valentine, M.A Chairman THE FRESHMAN YEAR Percy T. lbot ' . lden, Ph.D. Dean Edw. ' rd Simpson Noyes, Ph.D. Associate Dean YALE COLLEGE Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, Ph.D. Dean Alfred Kindred Merritt, B.A. Registrar HoLLON Augustine F.a.rr, Ph.D. Senior Class Officer Norman Sydney Buck, Ph.D. Junior Class Officer Nath.- niel Burton Par. dise, Ph.D. Sophomore Class Officer SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL Charles Hyde Warren, Ph.D. Dean Loomis Havemeyer, Ph.D. . Assistant Dean SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Robert Ernest Doherty, M.S. Loomis H.wemeyer, Ph.D. GRADUATE SCHOOL Edgar Stevenson Furniss, Ph.D., LL.D SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Milton Charles Winternitz, M.D. DIVINITY SCHOOL Luther Allan Weigle, Ph.D., D.D., Litt.D., LL.D Dean SCHOOL OF LAW Charles Edward Clark, LL.B., M.A., LL.D. Dean Ashbel Green Gulliver, LL.B. Assistant Dean SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS Everett Victor Meeks, Litt.D., A.D.G.F., Dean Registrar Dean Dean F.A.I.A. Dean SCHOOL OF MUSIC David Stanley Smith, M.A., Mus.D. Dean Richard Fr. nk Donovan, Mus.B. Assistant Dean SCHOOL OF FORESTRY Henry Solon Gr. ' ves, LL.D. . Dean SCHOOL OF NURSING Effie J. ne T. ylor, M.A. . Dean UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Andrew Keogh, Litt.D. . Librarian Ch.arles Everett Rush, B.L.S., M.A. Associate Librarian PEABODY MUSEUM Richard Swann Lull, Ph.D., Sc.D. Director GALLERY OF FINE ARTS Everett Victor Meeks, Litt.D., A.D.G.F., F.A.I.A Director Theodore Sizer, M.A. . Associate Director OBSERVATORY Fr. nk Schlesinger, Ph.D., Sc.D. Director CHURCH OF CHRIST IN YALE UNIVERSITY Rev. Sidney Lovett, M.A. University Chaplain and Pastor DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL STUDY AND BUREAU OF APPOINTMENTS Albert Beecher Crawford, Ph.D. Director Stuart Holmes Clement, M.A. Associate Director of the Department of Personnel Study Ogden Dayton Miller, Ph.B. Associate Director of the Bureau oj Appointments DEPARTMENTOF UNIVERSITY HEALTH Ja.mes Cowan Greenway, M.D. Director Orville Forrest Rogers, M.D. Assistant Director ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Malcolm Farmer, M.A. Chairman of the Board oJ Control UNIVERSITY DINING HALLS Cora C. Colburn, M.A. . . Director