It is not possible to advocate "one's particular policy, plan or improvement" unless one considers all the foregoing as components of one change. The extension of "honors" courses, the change in the administrative policy and the other improvements proposed are so interrelated that they must all be inaugurated in due season. The whole question centers around the administrative policy. It is not the existence of the graduate schools but the inflexibility of the departmental system that makes Yale's present policy pernicious.

New Associate Professorships Needed

To maintain her present staff, Yale must create more associate professorships and recognize contributions of teaching as well as of scholarship. Further, the whole teaching force should have a voice in faculty affairs. Those at present excluded must be given hearing by the powers that be. As for methods of instruction, a continuation of the plan to make groups smaller and an extension of the "honors" courses when money and available men are at hand--these are the most desirable changes to be made for the betterment of Yale.

"It is not the excellence of graduate schools but the inflexibility of the departmental system that makes Yale's present policy pernicious."

"All members of the faculty . . . should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored!"

"To keep pace with other universities, Yale must be more than a home of sweetness and light, more than a school of scientific devotees."

"Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other universities. It is time to wake up and see why we are losing them."

The above quotations are taken from the winning essay of the Yale News prize essay contest, which was submitted by R. L. Post, Yale '27.