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THE NEW HAVEN UNIVERSITY : WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT 

 IT REQUIRES. BY PROF. JAMES D. DANA, LL.D. 1 87 1 * 



The friends of Yale are not yet all aware that what they have been accus- 

 tomed to call Yale College, is fast becoming a subordinate member of a 

 University. The change began thirty years since, and has been rapid in its 

 progress during the latter half of that period ; and still its graduates, when 

 their thoughts turn New Havenward, think only of Old Yale, or of Old 

 Yale and its adjuncts, among them a " Scientific School." They have not 

 awakened to the fact that Yale College and the " Sheffield Scientific School 

 of Yale College " are parallel parts in one division of the New Haven Uni- 

 versity ; that this University has its well considered scheme of organization, 

 and, beyond this, is so far a realized fact that it will need from the successor 

 of President Woolsey (soon to be elected) little more than a filling out of its 

 existing system and means of instruction. Yale College is not losing its 

 high position in the change ; on the contrary, it is taking a more honorable 

 stand through the higher developments in the system of education which its 

 officers and those of other departments are pushing forward. 



We propose to give some account of the New Haven University for the 

 enlightenment of Yale graduates ; but also, and principally, for the benefit 

 of the public generally, who have reason for profound interest in whatever 

 concerns American college education. We may consider first, What the 

 University is ; and, secondly, What is required for its completed develop- 

 ment. The subject of endowments is here left out of view. 



I. THE NATURE AND CONDITION OF THE UNIVERSITY 



I. Its general subdivisions. The University comprises five departments: 

 (i) the Philosophical; (2) the Theological; (3) the department of Law; (4) 

 the Medical ; (5) the department of the Fine Arts. 



The first of these departments the Philosophical consists of the Post- 

 graduate schools of the University ; and, tributary to them, there are two 

 undergraduate colleges : the Academic, or Yale College, and the Scientific, 

 or Sheffield College. The whole period of study, to the close of the Post- 

 graduate courses, is six years. 



* The following brochure is reprinted as a landmark in the expansion of 

 Yale College. 



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