Yale University Council

A new faculty body, called the University Council, has recently been established at Yale, and will be composed of sixteen members of the faculties of the various departments of the university. Its functions will be threefold: First, to represent the university in intercourse with other institutions on subjects which do not call for direct action on the part of the corporation; second, to refer questions of policy suggested from outside to the department affected; third, to discuss all acts of any one faculty which affect the workings of a department under the control of another.

The forming of the new council will not result in a transfer of powers from the corporation; for by the first of its functions it deals with matters over which no existing authority has power to deal, and the second and third points confer upon it deliberative rather than definite functions.