TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONS.

The annual report of President Hadley indicates that Yale is crystalizing an educational plan which differs from the University's in several particulars. Its foundation is specialization and prescription. Following the plan of the German universities, Yale proposes to begin specialization for professional service as early as the freshman year; while she prescribes the courses for her undergraduates on the ground that the faculty knows better a student's needs than the student himself. However, recognizing that men have different interests, she allows the undergraduate to choose one from several prescribed systems of courses. This system which considers an undergraduate too inexperienced to elect his own courses, yet experienced enough to determine the all important question of his life work, is of value only to the man who has a particular genius for a certain profession. Such men are few, The majority of undergraduates are in college for the very purpose of discovering for what work they are fitted, Bravery's man in contact with the whole field of learning. Thus by a process" of alimination he can discover for what he is best adapted. When this is done, the plan of "Concentration" centers his studies in this field. Yale's plan does away with this function of the college by assuming a man's life work to be determined.