Women are admitted to the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Music, and the Ph h, courses of the Graduate School, and public school teachers are admitted to some of the regular courses. Numerous scholarships and fellov.ships are pros tded in the Academic De partment. the Scientific School, the Divinity School and the Graduate Scho„I A •Pureati of Self Help' is maintained, through which students are aided in obtaining entplo= The university maintains a pnbfic course, and provides several senes of lectures in the different departments; prominent among the latter are the Lyman Beecher lectures an preaching, the Dodge lectures on the respoose bility of citizenship, the Bromley lectures on journalism, literature and public affairs and the Silliman Memorial lectures, of which 12 vol umes have been published by the Yak Linker sity Press. In 1918 Silliman lectures commem rated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Journal of Science by Professor Benjamin Silliman in July 181l3 They were published as a full volume-number of the Jour nal entitled 'A Century of Science in America.' with special reference to the Antevican lemma( of Science. The Journal has for the full cen tury of its existence been edited by three Yak men, Silliman and the elder and younger Dana. It is, however, not directly a Yale institution. though in a sense a Yale reflex of the devel opment of scientific research in America. 1. scope and influence it has continued national throughout the century of its existence. The University Library in 1919 contained over 1.000. Q00 volumes, exclusive oflets. It is sap plement(d by a series of There arc the Linonian and Brothers Library. the Dwight Hall Library, the Law Library, the So entific School Library, the Trowbridge Refer ence Library of the Divinity School, the Lone: Mason Library of Church Music, the Library of Foreign Missions and several other department and dub libraries. The Peabody Museum was established in 1866 by a gift of George Peabody (q.v.) and in it were accumulated excellent col lections in mineralogy, geology and ogy and zoology. As part of the building now under way, however, the old building has been removed, and these collections, in iarz part unique, arc at present inaccessible to public, awaiting the erection of a new miasmic, or new geologic and paleontologic Laboratories i to take ts place.
During the war Yale closed the regular courses, turning her dormitories intoen and developing a Reserve Officers Corps and a Naval Training Unit. Her war activities constitute an important chapter in the history of American participation in the great conflict. With the resumption of normal inter ests following the war, a far-reaching reorgani zation has been effected, invoking the status or governing boards and more or less all = merits and all students. New Link ersity have been created. There is now in addition to the president, a provost. The undergrad uate schools are more closely co-ordinates, en trance requirements changed, and a common undergraduate Freshman year adopted The important decision has also been reached that the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy shall be awarded to students who enter Yale withims I atin, the B.A. degree being reserved for *cue offering Latin at entrance. All Sheffield under vraduates become candidates for the degree or P. S Inasmuch as these changes are so recent
and have not yet had catalogue announceern•, they are not further outlined here They are in a full measure epochal, coming as ears do al th, time of the great Stirling bequest of SUM $15,000,000, as well as in a period as distinctly formative as that following the Civil War and the passing of the old Campus group of buildings. The buildings of the university known as the Bicentennial buildings include Woodbridge, Woolsey, Memorial and CM% ersity halls. They were erected by the graduates in 1903, 1901 and 1902 in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Yale Col lege. The buildings were designed by Carrere and Hastings of New York and cost about $1,000,000. They are of Indiana limestone with granite foundations. Memorial Hall, in the centre of the group, is becoming the regular place for tablets and other rr.emonals to gradu ates of the university. The following collec tions are on exhibition in Memorial Hall; Auto graph Letters and Engravings of Eminent Yale Men; the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, and the Rebecca Darlington Stod dard Collection of Greek and Etruscan Vases.
The Yale Roll of Honor, containing the names of 192 Yale men who gave their lives in the Great War, is also in this hall.
Woolsey Hall (see illustration of interior, Plate II, photograph 2) is a part of the group of Bicentennial buildings erected by the gradu ates at a cost of over $1,000,000 in com memoration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Yale. The hall holds 2700 peo ple and is acknowledged to be one of the best auditoriums in Amenca. The organ, which is unsurpassed in America and is the third largest in the world, was designed by the Hutchins Volley Company of Boston, and is the gift of the Newberry family of Detroit. In 1916, through additional gifts of the Newberry family, the organ was entirely rebuilt by the Steen: and Son Organ Company of Springfield, Mass. The organ now contains 22 stops in the great organ, 22 stops in the swell organ, 11 stops in the choir organ, 16 stops in the solo organ, 13 stops in the orchestral organ and II stops in the echo organ. There are, in total, 163 draw-stops, 32 couplers and 78 other piston and pedal accessories. There are more than 7.000 pipes.
The Osborn Memorial Laboratories (see illustration, Plate I, photograph 2), accom modating the departments of Zoology, Com parative Anatomy and Botany, were erected by means of funds paid over to the university by the executors of the late Mrs. Miriam A. Osborn, being the portion of her residuary es tate which was bequeathed to the university. The cost of these laboratories amounted to about $500,000. During her lifetime Mrs. Osborn erected Osborn Hall in memory of her husband. The Mason Laboratory of Mechani cal Engineering (see illustration) was built in 1910 by William Smith Mason and George Grant Mason, both of the Class of 1888, Sheffield. Constructed of brick, with a lime stone facade on Hillhouse avenue, it extends through to Temple street in the rear. There is Isere installed one of the most complete machine testing plants in the country, with large units affording unusual opportunities for experimental work and practical instruction.