Ten Years At Yale

Author : George Frederick Gundelfinger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428722692
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Ten Years at Yale written by George Frederick Gundelfinger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten Years at Yale: A Series of Papers on Certain Defects in the University, World of Today While I was a member of the Yale faculty, I published two works. The first one was my thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy - On the Geometry of Line Elements in the Plane with Reference to Osen lating Circles. The second one was a four-act play on college morals, entitled - The Ice Lens. I doubt if the latter is known very widely outside of Yale, where (i am told) it created a sensation. The Alumni Weekly declined to advertise it, and it was reported that the author was in danger of losing his mind. Had the same critics undertaken to read the thesis, which was published a year or two earlier, they would doubtlessly have de cided that the author had already lost it (his mind). But what they mistook for mental debility was nothing more than ordinary everyday insanity, which is a very fascinating subject indeed. I have devoted the intro ductory chapter of the present book to a discussion of it. For the convenience of the reader, I have also had a scene from said play and the results of said thesis re printed in this volume. The present work is neither a tin-pot melodrama nor a trumped-up narrative, as former semi-fictitious attempts to reveal conditions at Yale have been referred to. It is a series of papers constructed from thoughts, remarks and observations, jotted down by the author from time to time during his experiences at the uni versity. In no case have my efforts to ascertain the nature of things been forced. I even hesitate to refer to them as efforts, for all my data have come unsought. The book is simply the natural outcome of having lived for a decade in a university world, where certain condi tions stand in great need of improvement. The opinions expressed are not all my own. Many of them are the general views of both students and faculty, who, either through lack of interest or lack of courage, have not cared to publish them; and yet it seems to me that they should be of vital interest to the general public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.