LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



This department, named by the statute the " Department of Philosophy 

 and the Arts," was established in 1847, for advanced students, literary or 

 scientific, and with it was connected, in 1860, the degree of Doctor of Philos- 

 ophy, to be given only in case of high proficiency after a rigid examination. 

 The degree of Bachelor preceded in time that of Doctor, and was instituted 

 at the request of the officers of the Scientific School for graduates of a two- 

 years' course of study. This two-years' course was afterwards changed to a 

 three-years' course ; and it is now in contemplation to make it a four-years' 

 course. Other years of study follow for the degree of Doctor, making it six 

 years in all, as for students of the Academic department. There are hence 

 at Yale two undergraduate colleges, each terminating in the degree of 

 Bachelor, and each furnishing graduates to the Post-graduate schools. One 

 of these, the Scientific, has (as a result of its history) a place in this Philo- 

 sophical department, while the Academic, though no less entitled to the 

 position by its range of studies, has thus far remained outside its professors 

 excepted, who with the professors of the Scientific College and some special 

 Post-graduate professors, constitute the faculty and give instruction in the 

 department. It is proposed to have both undergraduate colleges put on the 

 same footing ; and the arrangement adopted in this account of the Univer- 

 sity, which includes these two colleges as well as the Post-graduate schools 

 in the Philosophical department, is favored by the Academic faculty. 



2. Subjects of Study. Besides the studies of Yale College, and those of 

 the Professional schools, Theology, Law, and Medicine, there are the follow- 

 ing courses in full and vigorous prosecution through the relatively new 

 Sheffield or Scientific College, under its twelve professors and other instruc- 

 tors, viz : Mathematics, Civil and Dynamical Engineering, Analytical and 

 Descriptive Geometry, Astronomy, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Agricul- 

 ture, Mechanics, Physics, Metallurgy, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Paleon- 

 tology, Physical and Political Geography, Linguistics, French and German, 

 besides the English Language and Literature, and other literary departments. 



In addition, there are arrangements at Yale for instruction in Sanskrit, 

 Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and other philological studies mentioned be- 

 yond. At the same time, the School of the Fine Arts supplies instruction 

 in drawing and painting, and lectures on art. The range of studies at Yale 

 has thus greatly widened within a score of years, and has taken a university 

 scope. 



3. Philosophical Department. Education, moreover, has risen to a uni- 

 versity grade along nearly all the lines of study in the Philosophical depart- 

 ment, and provision has been made for the higher Post-graduate instruction 

 by the recognition of distinct Post-graduate sections or schools. 



a. The Philological School, under Professor W. D. Whitney, Mr. Addi- 

 son Van Name, the Librarian of the University, and the Linguistic pro- 

 fessors of Yale and Sheffield Colleges, and of the Theological department. 

 Systematic courses of thorough instruction are provided for in general 

 philology, comparative study of the Indo-European languages, the special 



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