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at Yale, for the first time, at the commencement, in 

 July, of the present year. 



AVe would call the attention of our readers to two or 

 three points in the establishment of this new department 

 in the college. 



In the first place, it was put upon the same basis as the 

 professional schools of theology, law, and medicine, 

 and is to be regarded as a fourth professional school. It 

 was intentionally separated from the college proper, or 

 the academical course of instruction. The principle, 

 laid down in the reports to the corporation, written by 

 President Day and Professor Kingsley, on the subject of 

 the study of the classics, that a collegiate education is 

 merely a preparation for a professional education, a 

 general course of study fitting the student for any specif c 

 course which his chosen pursuit of life may require, and 

 that the two should not be intermingled, was strictly 

 observed. Pains were taken not to introduce any partial 

 or half-way system of education into the four years 

 collegiate course. It was hoped, on the one hand, that 

 there would be some, as there have been, who would 

 become professional scholars in the departments of 

 philology, philosophy, mathematics and the like ; and, 

 on the other, that there would be a large number of 

 graduates, who would prepare themselves, by a strictly 

 professional course of instruction, for those pursuits of 



