LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



German, and the establishment of chairs of Mining Engineering and of 

 Spanish are the changes most needed. 



This Scientific College depends largely for its means of instruction on the 

 Museums of the University, and the collections of apparatus and models. 

 The mineralogical cabinet is excellent, and the zoological and paleonto- 

 logical are rapidly enlarging under the energetic professors of those depart- 

 ments. But each requires, in order to arrange and label specimens and 

 keep the museum in proper condition, one or more assistants the miner- 

 alogical, one ; the others, each two or three. The collections need special 

 extension in the directions of human relics from caves and the deposits of 

 the last of the geological periods, and also in the wider department of Eth- 

 nology, especially American Ethnology, and now is the time for gathering, 

 since these relics wherever accessible are fast being brought into the 

 museums of the world. The Historical department is as much interested 

 in such collections as the Geological. 



2. The Theological department. This department would be strengthened 

 by a Professor of Mental and Moral Science and Apologetics, and by a 

 special instructor in Elocution. The circumstance that its students have 

 ready access to many of the lectures and all the collections furnished in the 

 other departments renders the founding of new chairs less imperative. Of 

 the other wants of this department our plan forbids us now to speak. Its 

 new building, 160 feet long, finished but six months since, has already 

 proved too small, and another is projected. 



3. The Law and Medical departments. For complete university success 

 in the schools of Law and Medicine the endowments for the departments 

 should be so large that the faculty would be free to strike off from the ordi- 

 nary grade of such schools and demand advanced scholarship for admission, 

 and high special attainments for the degree of graduation ; and also 

 sufficient to enable each institution to fill out its corps of instructors, and 

 the medical to extend greatly its museums. This has been the aim and de- 

 sire of the officers of the Medical school for several years. Moreover, for 

 the most satisfactory results, not merely New Haven, but the whole country 

 should be made to contribute to the corps of instructors. 



4. The department of Fine Arts. It was the aim of the founder of this 

 department, as it is of its existing professors, that it should become a school 

 for high esthetic culture, as well as for instruction in the practical applica- 

 tions of the Fine Arts. To accomplish its purpose, it requires, as Professor 

 Weir rightly urges, an immediate addition to its present corps of a Professor 

 of Architecture, and also, as soon as may be, of a Professor of Sculpture 

 and a Professor of Poetry. The department needs also a special library of 

 works in every branch of the Fine Arts ; choice specimens of the best 

 engravings ; a considerable enlargement of its collection of models ; and an 

 extensive outfit of photographic illustrations, especially photographs of the 

 cartoons and sketches of the old masters. To complete the means of in- 

 struction, there ought to be here at least a few paintings of the highest 



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