Report on a Course of Liberal Education. 343 



each year so well versed in the Greek and Roman classics as 

 to perceive and relish their beauties, and to be able and dis- 

 posed to make future advances in the same department ; and 

 that all who graduate derive from their classical knowledge 

 important aid in their professional studies, and in their other 

 pursuits, is what we believe. That in every department, our 

 students are taught with that thoroughness which enables 

 them, with proper exertions — a condition so far as we know, 

 presupposed in every country — " to go safely and directly on- 

 ward to distinction in the department they have thus enter- 

 ed, without returning to lay anew the foundations for their 

 success" — there is no higher evidence to be produced, than 



general notoriety ; and to this the appeal is made, 



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[As the two parts of this report were written independent- 

 ly of each other ^ a few of the same topics were considered in 

 both. These topics have been retained in the second part^ 

 so far only as they were introduced in a somewhat different 

 connection. '\ 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE OF THE CORPORATION. 



To the Corporation of Yale College: — 



The committee appointed " to enquire into the expedi- 

 ency of so altering the regular course of instruction in this 

 college, as to leave out of said course the study of the dead 

 languages substituting therefor other studies, and either re- 

 quiring a competent knowledge of those languages as a con- 

 dition of admittance into the college, or providing instruc- 

 tion in the same for such as shall choose to study them after 

 admittance," respectfully report ; — 



That aware of the magnitude of the proposition present- 

 ed to them, and its direct bearing upon the interests and re- 

 putation of the college, looking as it does to a fundamental 

 change in its organization and laws, and involving a radical 

 departure from the original object of its establishment, the 

 committee deemed it advisable to refer the subject to the 

 faculty of the college with a request that their views, in re- 

 gard to the matter, resulting from long experience and care- 



