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oratorios and choruses among the people of 

 New Haven, under the leadership of vari- 

 ous members of our musical faculty. Nor 

 should we fail to mention the importance 

 of the collections given by Mr. Steinert, 

 now housed in the upper floor of Memorial 

 Hall, whose historic importance is parallel 

 to those in our art galleries and museums. 



4. Still another development of outside 

 activity is seen in our public lecture 

 courses. These are by no means a new 

 thing. Almost from its very beginning the 

 Sheffield Scientific School has arranged 

 year by year a course of public lectures on 

 scientific subjects under the title 'Lectures 

 to Mechanics.' A few years ago some of 

 the people in New Haven, of their own 

 initiative, organized a 'New Haven Uni- 

 versity Extension Center,' and arranged 

 for somewhat similar courses of lectures, 

 covering the fields of literature and art as 

 well as science. The advantage of coop- 

 eration between the university and the citi- 

 zens of New Haven was so obvious that we 

 are now working together instead of sep- 

 arately, and by this combination we can 

 keep the grade of the lectures high and at 

 the same time reach a wider range of 

 hearers than would be otherwise possible. 



5. The most recent development of our 

 public activity has been connected with the 

 appointment of Dr. Sneath as professor of 

 the theory and practise of education. Pro- 

 fessor Sneath 's work consists of three dis- 

 tinct parts. He gives regular instruction 

 in his subject ; he takes charge of the newly 

 organized summer school; and he arranges 

 'means for closer communication and inter- 

 change of ideas between Yale and the 

 teachers in various parts of the country. 

 Of the value of his work as an instructor, 

 both to graduate students and to teachers, 

 it is unnecessary to speak. Of his work in 

 organizing the summer school it will be 

 more appropriate to speak in next year's 

 report, when we have a season behind us, 



than to attempt to prophesy in advance. 

 It will be sufficient for the moment to say 

 that the prospectus of this summer school, 

 issued as a bulletin of Yale University in 

 February, 1905, is a document which every 

 Yale man may read with satisfaction. But, 

 useful as such a summer school may prove, 

 I regard Professor Sneath 's work in com- 

 municating with the teachers as having 

 even greater importance. At much sacri- 

 fice of time and labor, he has made jour- 

 neys through different parts of the coun- 

 try, especially in the south; and he has at 

 every stage of his journeyings helped us 

 to bring the effect of our Yale life and 

 Yale standards home to those who can not 

 come to Yale as well as to those who can. 

 He has shown the school men of the country 

 what we are trying to do in such a way as 

 to help us to work together instead of 

 separately. 



I have purposely confined attention in 

 this summary to the public activities which 

 we already are in position to exercise, with- 

 out mentioning those which are merely 

 projected. A word should, however, be 

 said of the plan for a forest museum which 

 is in the mind of Mr. Gifford Pinchot. 

 The Yale Forest School was organized just 

 at a time when the American public was 

 beginning to see the importance of the sub- 

 ject. "We have had the good fortune to 

 take the lead in this line of education, so 

 that students come to us from every quarter 

 of the world. Mr. Pinchot feels that it 

 would be possible, by the establishment of 

 a museum in connection with this school, 

 to take the same position before the public 

 as a whole that our courses of instruction 

 have given us in the minds of students and 

 specialists, and to make Yale the center to 

 which the whole world will turn for its 

 record of progress in forestry in the past 

 and its suggestions of possible lines of 

 progress for the future. Mr. Pinchot has 

 already realized so many of his ideals that 



