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blending the graces of the bygone literatures with the 

 strength and richness of the philosophies and the sciences of 

 later times, has sent forth from her venerated halls so many 

 generations of scholars, to grace with their ripe culture the 

 learned professions, as well as the authorship and the states- 

 manship of our land. It is not supplanting that is needed, so 

 much as supplementing, either in Yale, or elsewhere. The aim 

 of the reforming architect should be, to build on, rather than 

 to pull down. The old curriculum should be maintained, for 

 those who choose it ; and enough, doubtless, of classical candi- 

 dates will always be found to fill the classes. But there is 

 room, in our civilization, for more than one type of culture. 

 New curricula must meet the new demands and changed cir- 

 cumstances of the times. Yale College, it seems to me, has 

 already taken the right course. Always progressive, and like 

 other American Colleges, from the very first, less predominantly 

 classical, and more largely mathematical and scientific in her 

 training, than the English Colleges, she has been the first to 

 recognize the importance to American industry of schools of 

 practical science ; and this young branch of the university is 

 proof, to-day, alike of the growing demand for a broader 

 training in the sciences, and of the readiness of this ancient 

 seat of learning to meet that demand to the full extent of her 

 ability. Private munificence has given her these commodious 

 halls, and the State has added the Congressional bounty, to 

 enable her to teach here, to the rapidly increasing classes, 

 those branches of learning that relate to the great industries of 

 the day, particularly to agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



It is the distinctive work, then, of this institution, simply to 

 meet the wants that gave it birth in a word, to utilize 

 science to teach it in its practical applications to make it 

 instrumental in promoting human welfare especially, as that 



