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No faculty of distinction can be attracted to or kept at Yale except insofar as we maintain our intellectual distinction as a university. Our obligations to the higher learning are clear and our pride in ' ale ' s achievement in the past must be the mea- sure of our efforts for the future. More specifically and for the immediate future, such a policy must concentrate upon two objectives: the development of the library and the building up of research funds. Given our magnificent library equipment and collections and counting upon the help of an enthusiastic group of book-loving alumni, I look forward to a period of the utmost importance in the history of the library and one which by enhancing the splendor of our collections will guarantee the great- ness of ' ale. Our distinction will depend no less upon the research funds which we can make available. They are the lure that will bring to Yale the young men, scholars of the future, and they are the sinews of their scholarship after they come here. Upon these resources for research we depend to provide the reservoir from which to draw our faculty as well as to assure our intellectual influence. F , Y j Pcge Twenly-seven

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Educational Policy A By CHARLtS StVMOLR I ' nder the leadership of President Anticll. Ae has just completed an era of ex- traordinary development. Of this the most obvious and spectacular but by no means the most important aspects have been the rapid j;nnvth in financial resources and the provision of superb physical t-cjuipment. Such growth is merely a means to an end. and it has led to progressive strengthenmi: of the faculty and the mtroduction of new wavs of student life which have enormi)usly raised the level of our intellectual distinc turn and have zivcn to the student fresh educational and social oppi rtunities. As regards undergraduate life, the crcatitm of the colleges has been the event of chief im- portance. As regards the university as a whole, an achievement almoit unnoticed but of vital importance has been the welding of the multifarious and KH)scly correlated parts of the university into something approaching a unified entity. X ' ithout in- troducing a prtKess of rc olutionary centralization or destroying the life of the individual units an organization has been developed that provides effective lo ordmat- ing supervisitm of the whole. Thus we are in a position to concentrate up« n our central educational purpose and to go forward rapidly along lines which have already been surveyed. The great- est of undergraduate needs, in the upper classes, is the more effective use « f the facilities offered by the colleges, espec ally in the direction of individual educational supcr ision. This I belie e can be achieved by increased emphasis upon preparatitm for the final general examinations and upon the varu)us types of educational assis- tance that can be given the student by the faculty supervisors in such preparation. An increased faculty will be necessarv- and it must be of the highest teaching equality. Closer attention must be given to the latent capacities and the obvious deficiencies of individual students The departments must increasingly provide discussion course;, in which the intellectual initiative of the student can be called upon and his intellec- tual curiosity aroused. Especial attention must be given to Frc-shman ' ear. to the period of transition from the relatively close supervision and discipline of the prep- aratory and secondary schix)! to the freedom of college. The principle of the existing counselor system is s«)und. but we have never applied it effectively and it must be our first preixcupation s«i to extend it as to ensure effective application. Of ctjual importance is an administrative alertness and wisdom that will compel the depart- ments of study to provide instructors peculiarly fitted for the needs of frethmen. The fundamental assurance of success in the education both of upper lassmcn and fresh- men will be ftiund in the faculty members we appoint and in the quality of our ad- ministrative officers. Ikcause of this and for many other reasons we must rejoice in the two new Deans, William Clyde De Vane. ' 20. Dean of YalcQ)llege. and Norman Stephen Buck. 13. Dean of Frerhmcn P gt Twemy-nx

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Corporation Charles Seymolr, Ph.D.. Litt.D.. LL.D . PrtsUent FELLOW ' S His Excellency the Governor of CONNKCTICIT. ex officio. His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of CoNNEtmcLT. ex officio. Howell Chenev, M.A. MoKTiMiR Norton Bickner, LL.D. Rev Hknrv Sloane Coffin. D D.. LL D I ' rh) Tuwsley MiRPHV. M. D . M. A EnwARD Belofn Greene. MA Thom.vs Walter Swan. LL B . MA Jam I s Li 1 L mi.mis. MA RiEVi S HLEV. LLB.. MA. Tho.mas Day Tha her. LL.D Rev Arthi r Howe BraI)Fori . DD Enw ARi Larneh Rverson. Jr.. MA RuHiRT Alphonso Taet. LLB.. MA Rt Rev Hi nrv Knox Sherrill. D.D . LL D. Dean Goodirham A hes ».n. LLB.. MA. pRrotRUK Triiui Davimin. LL.D VlL.MARTH ShILIMiN LEWIs, MA Alumni Board OlMCERS John Marshall HoLCOM»r. Jr.. M. 6» PcaH Sircct. Hartford. Conn. Cbdimian G. Mairk E CoNUtoN. (W. Box I V s. ProviJcnic. R L . Finl Vice-Chairmaii Cjiarles Carroll Glover. Jr.. 10. 4200 Ma%vichu ctts Ave . X ' ashington. D. C, SeiOiiJ V lie-Chairman ObOEN D. Miller. iO, Dr.iv ' ...n a .u Sijtion. No Haven. Conn. Secreiai) EXECniVE COMMITTEE John M. Holcomhe G. Mairk e Conuhin Geori.e T. Ahee. 9 , Ne»- York Ciey Mr RGAN B. BrainarI). ' 0 ). Hartford Raymonh W. Bristol, l IS. Neu York Cit)- R. Mayo Crawforo. isS. Ne« Haven Jack S. Ewing. ' 2S. Baltimore Arthi R Y Iim.ti )6. Englewood Charles C Glovi r OooEN D. Miller Pail Meluin. ' 29. Piashur ;h Chester T. Neal. 0 , Springfield |-Rii fRicK A. Preston, 065. Chicago VX ' alter G. Preston, Z . New York City Sta.nley M. Rowe, 12. Cincinnati A. X ' essel Shapleigh, 11, St. Louis £v Officio Gilbert Kfnnfv. ns Wiiliam S Moorhfad, 06 X ' illiam J. Schifefelin. Jr , i ) Pjgt TvtMy-tighl