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...annual report of President Hadley indicates that Yale is crystalizing an educational plan which differs from the University's in several particulars. Its foundation is specialization and prescription. Following the plan of the German universities, Yale proposes to begin specialization for professional service as early as the freshman year; while she prescribes the courses for her undergraduates on the ground that the faculty knows better a student's needs than the student himself. However, recognizing that men have different interests, she allows the undergraduate to choose one from several prescribed systems of courses. This system which considers an undergraduate...
...directly opposite to this conception we find President Hadley planning for Yale a course of instruction which makes specialization its cardinal principle. A series of pre-professional studies will be required of the first- or second-year undergraduate. In taking up these subjects before the close of his college career, the student will be enabled to complete his professional training sooner. This is distinctly contrary to our conception of college education. On the one hand we find Yale embarking upon a system of early professionalism, and on the other hand we find Harvard clinging to the doctrine of "liberal education...
With the approval of the Yale Corporation, President Hadley, recently laid down the general features of Yale's reconstruction policy. President Hadley plans to establish separate schools for the specialization of students in different branches of professional work, but to form a mediation between the two classes of students in the university--"the semi-professional students working under the group system and the non-professional students working under the elective system...
...Haven, Conn., Jan. 19 --; At a meeting, in New Haven, of about 2,000 Yale students this evening. President Lowell spoke on "A League of Free Nations as an International Safeguard Against War." President Hadley presided at the meeting which was held in Woolsey Hall. Professor Stephen Pierce Duggan, College of the City of New York represented the League of Free Nations Association...
After being introduced by President Hadley, President Lowell stated his main point, "The good of humanity is above the love of country...