EXPLAIN POLICIES OF YALE AND PRINCETON

President J. R. Angell, A.M. '92, of Yale, and President J. G. Hibben, Hon. LL.D. '17, of Princeton, outlined and explained policies of their respective universities before annual gatherings of alumni at New Haven and Princeton Thursday.

President Angell, speaking before over 500 Yale alumni assembled in Sprague Hall, declared that "the recent decision of the University to accept for the present only 850 men in the Freshman class involves an extremely important policy which should be clearly understood."

"In the first place", President Angell continued, "It does not mean that the University never intends to admit more than this number into its first-year class, but it definitely does mean that the University will at no time receive more students than it believes can be cared for properly with assurance of satisfactory instruction and adequate living facilities." President Angell said that in the second place candidates for enrollment would be considered primarily on the basis of scholarship, but that character and personality would also be taken into account, as usual, and in the third place that the present action is not related to the much discussed question of the "ideal size" for a college.

President Bibben, in the annual alumni address at Princeton, outlined a plan whereby upperclassmen would be left to more independent study followed by a comprehensive examination. He said that "with the plan I am presenting to you we can say to the undergraduates, "Here is a great subject. We will help you, but we wish you to go as an explorer into this undiscovered country. . . . The emphasis would be changed from the absorption of easily memorized facts to independent and original study of a subject--the very kind of mental process that the undergraduates will be expected to carry on in later lfe."