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...comparison of the statistics of the Academic and Sheffield enrollments reveals some interesting facts. New Haven High School, which has the largest high school representation in the university sends 67 more men to Sheffield than to Academic. Groton is the only school with all its men in one department, there being 26 students from this school in Academic and none in Sheffield. Hotchkiss, Hill, and Taft have each sent approximately three times as many men to Academic as to Sheffield, while Lawrenceville favors the scientific department...
...report of President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale University is conspicuous for the veto he puts on the scheme to triplicate an academic plant that already is hampered by being duplicate. That is to say, he apparently would rather see evolve some way to unify the college and the Sheffield Scientific School than to start in and raise an additional endowment and set up a "third college" with less study of mathematics and the classic languages. On the other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal...
...gifts of $100,000 each have been given to Yale for the development of a graduate course of business administration in connection with the Sheffield Scientific School. The course will be for one year, or, if possible, two years, and will be an addition to the present undergraduate "select course...
...graduate association, to be known as the Yale Engineering Association, has been formed, and a constitution will be drawn up soon. Its object will be to advance the interests of engineering education at Yale, and to establish closer relationship between the engineering department of the Sheffield Scientific School and undergraduates active in the field...
President Hadley of Yale, in his annual report, which was made public recently, states that he is opposed to the scheme which has been made to add a third college to Yale University. Under the plan suggested the Sheffield Scientific School would confine itself more strictly to science, and the academic department to the old-fashioned classical education, while the new department would combine both kinds of learning. President Hadley admits that it would decrease the size of the colleges, but holds that the expense and lack of traditions in the new department would overrule this...