President Eliot's Address at Yale

President Eliot spoke on "Resemblances and Differences among American Universities" last Monday evening at Yale in Woolsey Hall. He said, that although there are diversities among American universities and State institutions, the tendency toward the same constitution is strong. In administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard College, originally created by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1642. The tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein the graduates of the several institutions are coming into possession of power over them. He said that an American faculty almost always feels a strong sense of responsibility for the conduct of their students and gives much thought to the effects of their teachings and of the common academic life on the character of the student. He showed that the use of elementary subjects which rightly belong to the secondary schools, to be only a temporary policy, and that its complete disappearance in American colleges and universities is only a question of time.

President Eliot will attend the first annual meeting of the Trustees of the Carnegie foundation today in New York.