Peace at Yale

At New Haven last week members of the college community and alumni listened skeptically to President James Rowland Angell's long promised remarks on the House Plan (TIME, Feb. 24). Suddenly the audience burst into loud cheering. President Angell had announced that Associate Professor Dudley French (Yale 1910) would not resign from the English faculty, as had been previously stated (TIME, Dec. 30), but would take charge of the first unit of the quadrangle system. some three or four years hence. Two situations which engendered dispute at Yale this year are: 1) the House Plan, and 2) the resignation of popular Mr. French, after he was refused a full professorship. With Mr. French not only reinstated, but associated with the quadrangle system, peace again reigned at Yale.

The announcement was also a happy one for Mr. French. When he left the Yale faculty he had accepted the provostship of Avon Old Farms School, experimental venture in secondary education. Last week he had lost his job. Friction between the school's executive committee and the Pope-Brooks Foundation (chief donor) about the status of the provostship, had ended in the resignation of the committee and the withdrawal of Mr. French.

Of the House Plan, to which Mr. French now brings some measure of undergraduate approval, President Angell spoke specifically. Until the plan gets fully under way, freshmen will use the buildings as dormitories. Conflict between the House Plan and fraternities will "be dealt with sympathetically." Generous provisions of Mr. Harkness's gift will enable impecunious boys "to enjoy the full advantages of the quadrangles without embarrassment."

At the same time President Angell made it known that the trustees of the estate of John W. Sterling (Yale 1864) had given another $3,000,000 for the new graduate school quadrangle. Architect James Gamble Rogers will design the buildings, which will stretch along York Street from "Mory's" (famed eating place) to Tower Boulevard. Sterling benefactions to Yale include the $7,500,000 Sterling Library, Sterling law buildings, scholarships, endowments.

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