THE NEW HAVEN UNIVERSITY 



essentially the head and front of the Philosophical department. Then, 

 alongside of these, there are the departments of the Fine Arts, Law, 

 Medicine, and Theology. Our action shows (and hence we need not hesi- 

 tate to say it) that we regard this as the best University scheme in the 

 land ; that is, the best, not for Germany, but for existing America. And 

 its special advantages are : first, that while it allows in its undergraduate 

 colleges the widest range of optional courses, option in the most funda- 

 mental point commences at the beginning of college life, each student then 

 taking the more literary course, that of the Academic College, or the more 

 scientific, that of the Sheffield College, as he may decide, and also having 

 liberty afterward, not only to select any optional course in his chosen 

 college, but also to change from one college to the other at any time should 

 he wish, and can meet the requirements ; and, secondly ', a feature of prime 

 importance, that the two colleges have distinct faculties, each to regulate 

 independently the concerns of its own students, its system of studies, exam- 

 inations, appointments, and all matters of discipline. In our view, and our 

 experience also, the system is well adapted to secure ease of management, 

 efficiency of government, and thoroughness of education. 



Leaving now the subject of the University as it is, we pass to the 

 consideration of, 



II. WHAT THE UNIVERSITY REQUIRES 



The University requires for its full and rapid development just the right 

 man the coming year in the Presidential chair, besides more ample means 

 of instruction in the several departments. The following remarks are con- 

 fined to the last of these points : 



i. The Philosophical department. The deficiencies in the faculty of the 

 Academic College have been mentioned in another place (the Nation, for 

 May 26th), and most of these deficiencies are deficiencies also in the Post- 

 graduate department. The more important of these wants, as regards this 

 department, are a Professor of Political Science, this chair becoming vacant 

 in the resignation of President Woolsey, unless he should signify his will- 

 ingness to continue these duties ; also the institution of a chair of Physics 

 separate from that of Mechanics and Astronomy, and of German separate 

 from that of French. To give completeness to the system, there ought to 

 be also a chair of Italian and Italian Literature. Besides, additions might 

 well be made to the faculty of the Academic department, which would allow 

 its present corps to give more time to Post-graduate instruction. 



The above observations apply also to the corps of instructors in the 

 Sheffield or Scientific College. Several of the professorships would be 

 divided and others added if it were organized with the completeness 

 required by the wants of the country. The separation of the chair of 

 Geology from that of Zoology, the chair of Metallurgy from that of Min- 

 eralogy, the chair of Mathematics from that of Engineering, the chair 

 of Astronomy from that of Physics, the appointment of a full professor of 



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