Identifier: memoriesofyaleli00dwig (find matches)
Title: Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916
Subjects: Yale University
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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umed? The question was a grave one, indeed. But we whowere In conference with the President were young men,with much of the hope and energy belonging to our age.We determined to make the venture—to commit our-selves to what seemed to be essential to the growth of theschool in the future as a department worthy of theUniversity, although, when viewed In the light of thepresent, it could scarcely be regarded as within the limitsof possibility. We put in exercise the faith which is—ifI may use the Scriptural words—the substance of thingshoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Thefriendly President, whatever doubts or fears may havemingled with his generous feeling, sustained us In ourresolution; and with all boldness we presented, throughhim, to the Corporation the requests which our plan In-volved. These requests were granted, and In the autumnof 1861 the new life began. It was. Indeed, only a beginning. The number ofstudents was small. The single building which belonged 280
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o Q * Q -SiO ^ MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN to the school was wholly Inadequate to the demands thatwould become imperative in case of any considerable in-crease in attendance. There was no lecture-room for theuse of the professors, except one which had been pro-vided by a slight enlargement of one of the ordinarystudy-rooms designed for students. There was no apart-ment in the building adapted to the purposes of a library;no meeting-place for the student body; and nothingwhich could, in any measure, give a home-like characterto the daily life of the young men. Moreover, the build-ing itself was not a permanent possession of the school.It had been originally erected, in 1835-36, and allowedits place in the line of the dormitories on the Collegegrounds, under the condition that, in case the growth ofthe Academical Department should render such actionnecessary, the Corporation might purchase it, at a valua-tion to be determined by appraisal, for the uses of thatdepartment. The time was

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