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

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in size, 3820 in 1921, 5483 in 1937. But the quality has distinctly and steadily improved. Students are better equipped and more serious in their work. And this is true in every school of the University. Far and away the most important factors in the University ' s development have been the distinguished persons brought into the faculties, sometimes to organize wholly new work, as in the case of Government, International Relations, the Department of Drama and the Institute of Human Relations. Space permits me to name only a few of the men of professorial rank; but when one recalls the conspicuous men already on the staff in 1 92 1 and the extremely promising group of brilliant younger men who have been ap- pointed in recent years, the quality of the Yale faculty is convincingly obvious. Let me mention then the following: In History and Classics, Rostovtzeff and Good- enough; in Philosophy, Urban; in Mathematics, Ore and Hille; in Electrical Engineer- ing, Doherty; in Geology, Warren; in Anthropology, Sapir and Wissler; in Psychology, Dodge, Hull, Miles, Robinson and Yerkes; in Semitics and Oriental Studies, Goetze, Edgerton and Obermann; in Physics, Swann and McKeehan; in Chemistry, Anderson and Harned; in English, Pottle and Young; in French, Feuillerat; in German, Prokosch and Weigand; in Government, Coker; in International Relations, Spykman, Howland, and Wolfers; in Diplomatic History, Dunn; in American History, Bemis and Phillips; in English History, Notestein; in Economics, Hastings, J. H. Rogers, Sa.xon and Smith; in Transportation, Daniels and Boardman; in Zoology, Nicholas; in Physiological Sciences, Dusser de Barenne, Fulton, and Long; in Education, Hill, May, and Loram; in Forestry, Graves and Boyce; in Fine Arts, Aubert, Baker, Focillon, Nicoll, Savage, Sizer and Tuttle; in Religion, Burrows and Calhoun; in Nursing, Miss Goodrich and Miss Taylor; in Law, Arnold, Douglas, Hicks, Rogers, Steffens, Sturges; in Anatomy, Allen; in Bacteriology, Bayne-Jones; in Medicine, Blake and Peters; in Surgery, Gush- ing; in Psychiatry, Kahn; in Pediatrics, Powers. It should be added that not all the per- sons mentioned are still in active service. In every school of the University new and more effective curricula, better organiza- tion and better methods of teaching have been in process of development. There has also been developing a new and stimulating sense of institutional solidarity, and de- partments and schools cooperate with one another far more successfully than was formerly the case. There has thus been a real integration of the University in progress. Undoubtedly the creation of the residential Colleges has been the most dramatic occur- rence of the period and, as time goes on, it may well prove to hav e been the most im- portant. There has certainly been a distinct growth of interest in research and creative work of all kinds. More men are, I think, ambitious to excel in this direction and I know that the scholarly productivity has markedly increased. Much larger numbers than formerly of mature scholars from all over the world have been attracted to work here in our Graduate and professional schools. I feel sure too that there has been an increase of appreciation for stimulating teaching. Students and faculty alike have become more critical and more demanding on this score. This fact has in turn resulted in rather more severe requirements from students and the abler undergraduates now go out with intellectual accomplishments substantially a year in advance of those which were common not long since. Although there is perhaps little material change in the overt interest of students in religion, I am sure that, as compared with the post-war period, there is a more serious and more widely disseminated concern for fundamental ethical and spiritual problems, just as there is conspicuously more interest in economic and social issues. I leave the University with the feeling that, while it has grave problems to face, it is in a condition of amazing vitaHty and that, under my friend President-elect Seymour, it will go steadily forward to ever new heights of invaluable service to mankind.

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SIXTEEN YEARS AT YALE By President James Rowland Angell IN response to the request of the editors of the Banner and Pot Pourri, I gladly at- tempt to suggest in a few words certain of the important developments at Yale during my administration. My commentary must inevitably be fragmentary, for it is literally impossible to compress within the limits necessarily set any adequate rehearsal of a period so replete with interesting occurrences. The most important thing about a University is the faculty. Next in importance are to be counted the students, whose quality will largely determine the character of the work the institution can actually accomplish. Below either of the foregoing in import- ance, though far from negligible, are the buildings and other physical facilities available. Depending for their effectiveness in part on building appointments, but of far greater intrinsic consequence, should be listed the libraries, laboratories, and collections. No matter how excellent the faculty and students, without adequate equipment in these respects work of distinction is well nigh impossible and even sound work is extremely difficult to attain. Financial resources constitute the last of the indispensable features of a university. I comment briefly on the changes at Yale in my time under these several headings and in inverse order. The productive endowments of Yale — now roughly a hundred million — have ap- proximately quadrupled since 1921 and, as more than half of the income of the Univer- sity derives from this source, the increase in the amount is most fortunate, for interest rates have fallen sharply, the University has experienced a notable growth, and for many reasons it is much more costly to maintain the highest standards than it was six- teen years ago. The largest single increment in this increase comes from the twenty million dollar endowment campaign of 1926, which resulted in pledges of over twenty- one millions from more than 22,000 Yale graduates. None of it was devoted to buildings and none will be. Mr. Harkness ' princely munificence has provided the Colleges, endowments for the needs of bursary students and for the maintenance of the Masters. The John W. Sterling Estate, intended by the benefactor to be expended primarily on buildings has, under the wise interpretation of the will by his Trustees, afforded the University a large number of generously endowed professorial chairs, as well as some millions of dollars available for scholarships and fellowships. In 1921 the amount avail- able to students in such scholarships, fellowships, loan funds and the like was 8134,789.- 66; in 1937 it is $600,219.68. It is impracticable to list the extraordinan,- additions to the libraries. Many of them have been altogether priceless. In the great Sterling Memorial, in the library of the School of Law, in the Divinity Quadrangles, in the Sc hool of Medicine and the Forestry School, not to mention the many subordinate departmental libraries, and the libraries of the Colleges, the developments have been little short of revolutionary. A similar, but less extensive, development of our laboratories has occurred, with the Sterling Chemis- try building and the Biological-Medical Laboratories as the most conspicuous instances. The architectural renaissance of Yale in the period in question has been so obvious that it has attracted disproportionate attention. Some forty new buildings have been erected, not a few of them, like the Sterling Memorial Library and the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, of monumental proportions, and almost all of them of commanding beauty. They serve the widest variety of University needs — residential halls, libraries, observatories, lecture and recitation buildings, chapels, art galleries and museums, hospitals and health clinics, physical education and sports, etc., etc. Thanks to restriction on attendance, the student body has not grown unreasonably 27

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CORPORATION James Rowland Angell, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., President FELLOWS His Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio. His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio. Howell Cheney, M.A. Francis Parsons, LL.B., M.A. Mortimer Norton Buckner, LL.D. Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., LL.D. Fred Towsley Murphy, M.D., M.A. Edw. rd Belden Greene, M.. . Thom.- s W.- lter Swan, LL.B., M.A. J. MES Lee Loomis, M.A. Reeve Schley, LL.B., M.A. Thomas D.- y Thacher, LL.D. Rev. Arthur Howe Bradford, D.D. Robert Alphonso Taft, LL.B., M.A. Edw.xrd Earned Ryerson, Jr., M.A. Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, D.D. Dean Gooderham Acheson, M.A. Frederick Trubee D.wison, LL.D. LL.D. ALUMNI BOARD OFFICERS William S. Moorehe. ' d, ' o6, 1732 Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Chairman John M. Holcombe, Jr., ' ii, 64 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn. . First Vice-Chairman G. M.iiURiCE Congdon, ' 09, Box 1395, Providence, R. L . . . Second Vice-Chairman Professor J. iMES Grafton Rogers, ' 05, 63 Wall Street, New Haven, Conn. . Secretary Ogden D. Miller, ' 30, Drawer 901A, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. Executive Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1936- 1937 R.- ymond W. Bristol, ' iiS, New York City Jack S. Ewing, ' 25, Baltimore Arthur E. Foote, ' 96, Englewood Philip Goodell, ' 04, Montclair Gilbert Kinney, ' 05, New York City C. R.ay.mond Messinger, ' 06S, Milwaukee Frederick A. Preston, ' 06, Chicago Stanley M. Rowe, ' 12, Cincinnati William J. Schieffelin, Jr., ' 14, New York Citv .S.- MUEL C. Sh- w, ' gi, Bridgeport 29