1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 423wisely, it was found necessary to make extensive educational studies. Notableamong these were two investigations conducted by Abraham Flexner into conditionsof medical education in institutions of this country and later in medicalcolleges of Europe. The expenses of these and other educational investigationswere defrayed from the general fund of the Foundation.Fearing, however, that the income from this fund—some $750,000 a year—might be eaten up by the pensions alone before long, Mr. Carnegie decidedto establish another fund, to be devoted especially to the carrying on of suchinvestigations and to be kept separate from the fund for pensions.The scope of the new department is the broadest. Law schools will beinvestigated by trained investigators, with a view of checking the great oversupplyof lawyers. After the legal inquiry, there will be a theological inquiryand an agricultural inquiry, with the purpose of raising the standards, as thefund did in the inquiry into medical schools, which succeeded in closing twentyfourmedical colleges which did not come up to the standard. Referring tothe proposed investigation of law schools, Henry Smith Pritchard, Presidentof the Carnegie fund, is quoted as saying:Lawyers generally have shown a great indifference to the higher standards ofeducation. There were in the United States in 1900, 114,000 lawyers, and in thepast ten years they have increased at a high pace. There are, it has been estimated,12,000 lawyers in New York City alone. Assuming, and it is evidently an extravagantassumption, that the proportion of lawyers to the community should be as largeas the proportion of physicians, 1,700 graduates annually from the law schools wouldbe sufficient to maintain even the present crowded conditions of the profession. Theoutput is three times as great as it should be, even granting that the communityneeds as many lawyers as doctors. As long as requirements for admission to thebar are low, it will be found highly profitable to conduct schools with inferiorstandards.YALE'S MEMORIAL TO HER CIVIL WAR HEROESWhen Memorial Hall was built at Harvard many years ago, the names ofHarvard men that died in the service of the United States army or navyduring the Civil War were inscribed on tablets on interior walls of thebuilding. Propositions made from time to time that a place be provided fortablets bearing the names of Harvard's sons that died in the service of theConfederate army or navy have met more or less opposition.At Yale plans have been maturing for several years to provide a memorialof the Yale men that fell in the Civil War. The committee in charge hasdecided on a plan which provides for large double tablets at either side of thearch of the so-called "Court of Honor," at the inside entrance to Memorialand Woolsey Halls, and the opening on the inner yard.The tablets are to be flanked by allegorical figures, and bear the namesof both Union and Confederate soldiers who died during the Civil War andup to the close of the year 1865. The inscription will emphasize the fact thaithe soldiers on both sides died with faith in their cause. The two allegoricalfigures have not yet been chosen, though designs have been handed in.A revision of the list indicates that the names of about 115 Union soldiersand 49 Confederates will appear upon the tablets. Of the 164 who died onboth sides, all but 21 were officers, of whom three were generals and elevenwere colonels.POKER, DRINKING, DANCING. ETC.. NOT COLLEGE SUBJECTSFollowing is the warning that has been given the freshman class by PresidentEdward J. James of the University of Illinois:"Many failures in the college work of the first two years can be directlytraced to alcohol ahd tobacco. The only safe things for college students insuch matters is taste not, touch not, handle not. Seniors and juniors mightbuild up a most excellent college tradition if they would prohibit freshmen and