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excellence, and a historic gallery representing the progress of art from its 

 early beginnings. (The Jarves collection is only temporarily in the Art 

 Building.) 



The " few paintings of the highest excellence," say ten, might be ob- 

 tained (if the friends of Yale will furnish the means) by giving orders to 

 some of the best painters of the world for paintings of moderate size, to 

 cost each not far from $10,000 ; or else through a fund entrusted to the 

 department for expenditure at its discretion. With ten such paintings for 

 young artists to study and copy, the place would be sure to become a centre 

 of art. 



The departments of the University, but especially the Post-graduate and 

 that of the Fine Arts, would be greatly benefited through the endowment of 

 Scholarships. By diminishing the burden of personal expense, they would 

 increase the number of Post-graduate students, encourage high proficiency, 

 and widen the beneficial influence of the University. It is desirable that all 

 the several courses pursued by advanced students should be thus favored, 

 Chemistry, Zoology, and Paleontology, as well as Mathematics, Linguistics, 

 etc.; so that equal encouragement may be given to all branches of know- 

 ledge. The undergraduate colleges, the Academic and Scientific, also need 

 their scholarship funds ; but of these it is not within our present purpose to 

 speak. 



The deficiencies of the University which have been mentioned above are 

 largely in the Law, Medical, and Art departments, the Law being wholly 

 without endowment, the Medical having very narrow means, and the Art 

 very inadequate funds, considering what is necessary for an efficient school 

 of the Fine Arts. The necessities of the Philosophical department in men 

 and means are also great ; yet not so great but that the schools under it are 

 doing systematic and thorough university work. 



We close this brief account of the University by mentioning the relations 

 of the faculties to the Corporation, or Board of Trustees, the only superior 

 board. 



The several departments, and also the two colleges under the Philosophi- 

 cal department, besides being independent of one another in their faculties, 

 students, classes under instruction, and government, are allowed each to 

 nominate to the Corporation its own officers ; to recommend its own grad- 

 uates to degrees on examination ; to determine what instructors are needed ; 

 and to lay out its own plans as to the methods of instruction, the arrangement 

 of its buildings, and even the amount of salaries ; the Corporation requir- 

 ing only that their views be sent to the Board for its consideration ; and 

 this is done with the full assurance, encouraged by long experience, that all 

 will be confirmed unless there is good reason for the contrary. Neither is 

 the President a dictator or manager. The Corporation approves, or disap- 

 proves, and regulates independently only those matters that are not within 

 the range of the separate or united faculties, and then at times after solicit- 

 ing advice from the faculties. It has never even questioned any decision of 



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