During the presidency (1886-99) of Timothy Dwight, grandson of the former President Dwight, the institution more than dou bled in resources, faculty and student enrolment. The School of Music was established in 1894, and its resources have been aug mented through the patronage of Joseph Battell, Albert Arnold Sprague and his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
An outstanding feature of the administration of Arthur Twining Hadley (1899-1921) was the development of the university idea co-ordinating the various schools and departments. The School of Forestry, the oldest forest school in continuous operation in the United States, was founded in 1900, as the result of the gifts of James W. Pinchot and his family.
Under President James Rowland Angell (1921-37) the uni versity expanded rapidly. A School of Nursing was established in 1923 by a gift from the Rockefeller foundation; in 1924 endow ment was provided by Edward S. Harkness for a department of drama and a university theatre ; the Institute of Human Relations was organized in 1929 ; and in 1932 the School of Engineering was re-established. In 1937 Pres. Angell resigned and was suc ceeded by Charles Seymour. The establishment in 1933 of resi dential colleges, designed to regain for undergraduates in a large university the educational and social advantages inherent in small groups of students, is the most important recent development at Yale. This was made possible by gifts from a Yale graduate, Edward S. Harkness. There are nine colleges (Berkeley, Bran ford, Calhoun, Jonathan Edwards, Pierson, Saybrook, Timothy Dwight and Trumbull), each providing accommodations for from 160 to 200 undergraduates during the last three years of the course. The Master of each college lives in a house attached to the college quadrangle. He is assisted in the work and life of the college by a group of faculty members who are Fellows of the college and have their studies and, if unmarried, their living quarters in the quadrangle. The Master and Fellows assist in guiding the undergraduate in his choice of courses, in his sup plementary reading, and in general preparation for the examina tions at the end of senior year.
The board of trustees, called the Yale corporation, consists of the president of the university, the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut, ten Fellows known as the successors of the original trustees, and six graduates elected for six-year terms. The corporation has five administrative officers, the
president, provost, secretary, treasurer and associate treasurer and controller. The general administration of each school of the university is in the hands of a dean and a board of professors on permanent appointment, subject to the approval of the cor poration. The teaching in the university is divided among 40 departments of study which serve the various schools. All mem bers of these departments who are of professorial grade are grouped in four divisions : language, literature and the arts ; history and the social sciences ; mathematics and the natural sciences ; and engineering. Courses of study in candidacy for degrees in course are offered in eleven schools: Yale College, Sheffield Scientific School, School of Engineering, Graduate School, School of Medi cine, School of Law, Divinity School, School of the Fine Arts, School of M'usic, School of Forestry, School of Nursing.
The course of study in Yale College is designed to provide for substantial mastery of some one field of liberal arts together with an intelligent acquaintance with allied subjects. The Shef field Scientific School provides for concentration in the principal fields of science, and the School of Engineering offers training in chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering and metal lurgy. In addition to preparation for the practice of medicine the School of Medicine offers courses leading to degrees in public health. The School of the Fine Arts offers four professional courses, architecture, drama, painting and sculpture, in which lectures are combined with technical practice. The School of Music admits those who intend to become musicians by profes sion, or to enter the field of musical criticism and literature of music. The curriculum of 32 months in the School of Nursing is open to women graduates of approved colleges and leads to the degree of Master of Nursing. Properly qualified women are ad mitted to all schools except the undergraduate schools and the School of Forestry.