MANY INNOVATIONS MARK YALE "NEWS" REFORM PROGRAM

"A sweeping policy of university innovations" embracing various subjects from new secret societies to limitation of enrollment featured the editorial columns of the Yale Daily News yesterday.

At the head of the list stands the proposal to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. Following it comes the demand for the retention of compulsory chapel, the News' first definite stand on this perennial question.

The third and fourth proposals in the platform deal with the fraternity question. One recommends the establishment of two new fraternities with the aid of the older organizations, and the second states that "the new fraternity buildings necessitated by the university building plans should be open houses, as simple and as inexpensive as is wise, being built with an eye to serviceability and usefulness rather than producing unnecessary extravagance as the result of a race for ornaments.

A course in the Bible as literature, and a course in dramatic art, are also proposed. Presumably these would resemble English 35 and English 47 at the University.

The seventh plank in the platform of sweeping innovations follows: "The great province of a university such as Yale is to preserve the ingredients of of culture, learning, and scholarship, which are the rewards and results of a long life devoted to these things. Yale is fitted to teach and give these to a degree that younger institutions, which are better fitted for purely technical training cannot do. With the faculty, the plant, existent and proposed, the traditions and the willingness in the student body, these things may be assured so that Yale will become an enduring center of learning and producer of gentlemen in the highest sense".

The eighth plank, that "the university should be kept from growing larger in the undergraduate departments", indicates that the enrollment problem has at last extended from Cambridge to New Haven.