The pleasing news that Yale is breaking from her Chrysalis state as "a college" into "the higher life" of the university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college as such. Her methods may now without shame to her children, embrace teaching that is distinctively "university" so far as that term comprehends an advance over the old-time collegiate instruction. The instruction which lays down rules now long proved to be false in spirit and practice, must pass to give place to a wiser teaching. To Yale, as to all other institutions which, in turning their backs upon a past, have looked to a better future it may be said again, without the usual preface, vive le roi.