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Crowding College Hurts Sheff...
...only for the reasons just given, is the recent increase in numbers in Yale College fundamentally an undesirable thing; it has reacted unfavorably by overcrowding the college at the expense of Sheff, and was, of course, the origin of the chapel change, in that it was the lack of seating accommodation in Battell that led to the alternate-chapel plan of last year which in turn resulted in a reconsideration this year of the whole chapel matter and its recent abolition. One reason for this overcrowding of the college was the transplanting of the select course under its new horticultural...
...undergraduate schools are symbolic. Neither could exist without the other. Men of the highest calibre would not be content to teach elementary courses without the resources of the graduate schools. We should lose their services. The greatness of Yale lies not in the superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff degrees. To keep pace with other universities, Yale must be more than a home of sweetness and light, more than a school of scientific devotees. On the other side of the question, there must be more attention to the undergraduate element through changes in policy brought about by breaking down...
Last week we noted with gratified pride that the Yale Seniors had voted Harvard the "next best college," and, in our limited way, we returned the compliment. But that, it turns out, was only the academic half of it. Now the scientific seniors, the Sheff, boys, have held their election and Harvard just isn't in the running. We take back everything good we ever said about New Haven. What can you expect from a class of men who will vote "Business Law", their favorite course, anyhow...
...particular question which is attracting notice at present is the courses required for Freshman consumption. Yale, with the entering class of "Ac" and "Sheff" united into one group under one dean, has found "inspirational courses" very successful. that means a division into small groups under the best professors in order that the ex-school boy may appreciate in his first year the opportunities offered by the University...