nder President Theodore D. Woolsey (q.v.), 1846-71. the corps of instructors was greatly enlarged, and the standard of scholarship raised; the Scientific School was established. and the foundation laid for the School of Graduate In struction; the professional schools were reor ganized and the School of Fine Arts was founded. During President Woolsey's 1 wenty-live years of service the number of students increased to 809. Dr. Woolsey proposed the plan, which became effective in 1872, by which six graduates of the college took the place of the Slate Senators in the corporation. fhe administration of Noah Porter (q.v.), 1871-S6, was one of great mate rial prosperity. At this time a most important change was made in the course of instruction and the modern system of elective studies was adopted. On the resignation of Dr. Porter the student body numbered 1079, lle was succeeded in 'SSG by Timothy Dwight (q.v.), grandson of the elder President. Dwight, under whose ad ministration (1886-99) the growth of the institu tion was unprecedented. In five years the num ber of students increased more than 50 per cent., and at the 11111 of President Dwight's term they numbered over 2500. The title of Yale University was authorized by the Legislature in 1887. Under the last three presidents the productive funds were greatly augmented. and more than twenty buildings were erected at a cost of above $2.000.000, Upon the retirement of President Dwight, Professor Arthur Twining Hadley (1.v.) was made president and inaugurated on October IS, 1899. The corporation as now eonstituted is composed of the president and eighteen fellows, viz. ten Congregational clergymen, the succes sors of the original ten founders. the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, who were made members ex-offieio in 1792. and six representatives elected by the graduates from their own number, one every year for a term of six years. The corporation alone has power to confer degrees.
The courses of study offered in the university are comprehended in four departments. each de partment being under the administration of a distinct faculty of instruction: Philosophy and the arts, theology, medicine, and law. Under the first-named department are included two separately organized sections in which' instruc tion for undergraduates is provided. viz. the academical department and the Sheffield Scien tific School: also. the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Music, and the Forest School. each with a special organization, and the Graduate School, under the combined faculty of the de partment. The library. the Peabody Museum of Natural History. and the observatory are organ ized independently of the special departments, and are designed to contribute in their special spheres to the instruction and advancement of the whole institution. A candidate for the de gree of B.A. must complete courses aggregating sixty hours per week through a year. A student is enrolled in the freshinan class until Ile has completed at least twelve hours of work. The
sophomore class completes twenty-six hours, the junior forty-one, and the senior sixty. The course is largely elective, and is being freed from the traditional requirements. In the spring of 19113 the college took the important step of aban doning the entrance examination and the required course in Creek. There are several scholarships and fellowships, yielding from $115 to $800, given to undergraduates and graduates of the academi cal department.
The college campus borders on the New Haven green and occupies half of one of the original nine squares in which the city was laid out. It is bounded by College, Chapel, High, and Elm streets. The niodern buildings are arranged to form a quadrangle 850 feet long and 400 wide. At the north corner of the campus is Alumni Hall (1853), used for meetings of the graduates and for examinations; at the west, the Art School (1866) ; at the east, Batton Chapel (1875, enlarged 1893) ; and at the smith, Osborn Hall (1889), containing recitation and lecture rooms. 1M the High Street side are the old library (1844) ; Dwight Hall (1886), devoted to the use of the Yale Y. AI. C. A.; and the Chittenden Library (1890). The space on Elm and College streets is filled by the dormitories Durfec (1871), Farnam (1870), Lawrence the Lampson Lyceum and Welch (1892) halls. Be tween the last two is Phelps Hall (1896), mainly devoted to the classical department, with a gate way forming an effective entrance to the campus. Vanderbilt Hall (1894) stands be tween Osborn Hall and the Art School. In the immediate neighborhood of the campus are the Sloane Physical Laboratory (1883), the Kent Chemical Laboratory (1887), the dormi tories Pierson (1890). White, Berkeley (1894), and Fayerweather (1901) halls, and the theologi cal seminary. Further north are the Sheffield Scientific School, the group of bicentennial build ings, and the administration building, Wood bridge Hall.
The Sheffield Scientific School is devoted to in struction in the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences, and furnishes both graduate and undergraduate courses. It was established in 1847 as a school of applied chemistry. The de gree of Bachelor of Philosophy was first given in 1852. In 1860 Joseph E. Sheffield, of New Haven, whose gifts to the school have amounted to not less than $1,000,000. provided it with a building and a permanent fund, and the next year the school was reorganized and called by its present name. In 1803 it received from the Legislature $135,000, being the proceeds of the Congressional land grant of 1862, and thus became the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts of Con necticut; but in 1892 this act was revoked and the special relation of the school to the State ceased. The course occupies three years. The graduate instruction of the school, including about 370 courses, leads to the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, Master of Science. and Doctor of Phi losophy.