LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



the faculties in matters of discipline, and never appointed an instructor for 

 a faculty against its pleasure or judgment. 



This confidence in the officers of the several departments has had many 

 good effects. A faculty, in consequence, is a result of natural growth from 

 the forces within the body : and therefore it is always harmonious, its 

 members acting well together and working as a unit for the progress of the 

 department. They know best the resources at their command, the weak 

 points to be met, and the accessions of strength required, and can, with 

 rare exceptions, best devise means or plans for all emergencies ; such con- 

 fidence is therefore reasonable, and its results good. Hence it is that the 

 officers at Yale have so strong a feeling of affectionate allegiance to the in- 

 stitution. Seven professors of the University have within two years been 

 invited to other positions in the country where better salaries awaited them, 

 and not one has gone. With such men, and such feelings, and such a 

 Corporation in spirit as has always ruled at Yale, the University is sure of 

 increasing prosperity. The accession to the Corporation of some of the 

 alumni, which we are glad to know is now in prospect, cannot result in im- 

 proving the relations of the Board to the various faculties. But it will, we 

 think, infuse new life into the University, enlist a wider sympathy in its 

 behalf, and thereby hasten on the era of its completed development. 



New Haven, June 5, 1871. 



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