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he trained up as co-workers. Moreover, 

 these would work with him through the 

 vacations. Thus, all last summer, fre- 

 quently till late at night, one could find, 

 in the old basement laboratory, professors 

 and students immersed in work. 



More than once he had attractive calls to 

 the east. Yet, because he felt that on going 

 elsewhere he would have to begin all over 

 again with great loss of time, these calls 

 were refused. Had he known how long he 

 would have to wait for the promised new 

 laboratory; had he known that he was 

 never to work in it: even then, I believe 

 he would have stood by the work he had 

 entered upon here. 



In spite of all difficulties he was turning 

 out several papers yearly. This summer 

 he was just able to finish and send to 

 The Philosophical Magazine a paper on 

 'Fizeau's Method in Ether Drift.' This 

 will probably rank with a former paper 

 ' On the Resolution of Light into Circular 

 Components in the Faraday Effect.' In 

 the November number of The Physical 

 Review he will have a paper 'On Anoma- 

 lous Dispersion and Achromatic Systems 

 of Various Types.' 



Thus did he work to the very end, Svith- 

 out haste, yet without rest.' Need it sur- 

 prise us then that those with him caught 

 his inspiration and that the publications 

 of the department, mostly prepared during 

 vacations, should number some forty or 

 more papers'? 



When can we Americans learn that 'in 

 universities truly worthy of the name,' 

 place should be made for investigation 

 throughout the year; that those fitted for 

 investigation should be untrammeled, per- 

 haps even encouraged to engage therein. 

 Might it not be better to reserve for vaca- 

 tions solely the command 'thou shalt not 

 investigate ' ? 



But it is something that the laboratory 



he has done so much to create may be 

 named in his honor ; and it is more that the 

 band of devoted workers he had gathered 

 about him will therein have the oppor- 

 tunity, as they have the absorbing purpose, 

 to carry to complete and perfect fruition 

 his pregnant ideas. 



Cut short in the beginning of his tri- 

 umphs he will, nevertheless, be ranked 

 among our physicists along with Gibbs and 

 Rowland. Ellery W. Davis. 



The University of Nebraska. 



EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS AT YALE 

 UNIVERSITY} 



The recent history of our large universi- 

 ties shows the growing importance of pro- 

 viding -Jand for museums and bureaus of 

 research. 



A university has to deal with two classes 

 of problems — those which arise out of its 

 relations to its students, and those which 

 arise out of its relations to the general 

 public. Most discussions of university 

 work concern themselves chiefly with the 

 relations of the institution to the student 

 body. We try to arrange a course which 

 shall meet the needs of the students; we 

 organize the work of the professors with 

 the same end in view. Three quarters of 

 the time of the corporation and more than 

 nine tenths of the time of the faculties is 

 occupied with the consideration of prob- 

 lems involving the welfare of the students 

 primarily or exclusively. 



But this is not the whole work of a uni- 

 versity. It must care for its students in 

 this way; but it must do something far 

 more than this. Its relations to the general 

 public are, I believe, quite as important as 

 its relations to its students. It is some- 

 thing more than a large school or group of 

 schools. Its professors can be occupied 

 with something better than the discussion 

 of student discipline. The noble definition 



^ From the annual report of President Hadley. 



