LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



4. The other departments of the University have undergone less change 

 than the Philosophical. The Theological is in full tide of prosperity, and 

 has recently augmented its force by a valuable addition to its corps of pro- 

 fessors, and by the institution of important lectureships. The Medical 

 School has been somewhat enlarged in its sphere, and has an energetic 

 corps of professors. 



The department of the Fine Arts has two professorships well filled, one 

 of Painting and Design, and the other of the History and Criticism of Art. 

 It has also the endowment of a professorship of Drawing (obtained within 

 a few weeks), an art building well adapted to its purpose, and the com- 

 mencement of a collection of paintings, including those of Col. Trumbull, 

 besides models, casts illustrative of the history of Greek sculpture, and 

 other conveniences to aid in instruction. 



5. The University is thus organized ; and the fact has been manifested 

 for years by active work and graduating students under most of its recog- 

 nized sections. The Post-graduate students of the current year are pursu- 

 ing among them the sciences of Comparative Philology, Sanskrit, Latin, 

 Greek, Mathematics, Mechanics, Civil Engineering, General and Applied 

 Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology, Zoology, and Botany. 



The degree of Doctor of Philosophy (instituted as already stated in 1860), 

 was first given for Post-graduate studies in 1861, and then to three grad- 

 uates, two in philological studies and intellectual science, and one in 

 mathematics. In the two years 1862 and 1863, four received it, after 

 studies in the same sections ; and in 1866 four, two in mathematics and 

 physics, one in intellectual and moral philosophy, and one in chemistry, etc. 

 It has since been taken by five others. The number of the Post-graduate 

 students who have graduated in the department and taken its degree is very 

 small compared with the whole number that have pursued its courses of 

 study. 



These are some of the fruits of the New Haven University ; and such 

 results are proofs that the name University is not misapplied. 



Yet it is sometimes said that Yale has not made progress with the age. 

 We believe that in no institution in the country is this progress more 

 apparent than here. The scheme which has so far been carried out was 

 presented by the writer, speaking for others, in an address before the 

 alumni, at Commencement in 1856 fifteen years ago, when the Scientific 

 School was struggling on under a few unpaid professors. Since then, the 

 Academic College, or Old Yale, has expanded its range of study by intro- 

 ducing the modern languages, and giving some scope to optionals, but not 

 by bringing the subjects of nature-science into its curriculum beyond what 

 is needed in these times for a graduate of well grounded academic culture. 

 The Scientific College, thanks to generous patrons, and to one above all, 

 has grown into thorough efficiency and enlarged its field until it now 

 embraces a wide range of literary as well as scientific studies. At the same 

 time both colleges range upward into the Post-graduate schools, which are 



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