Yale's Institute

Yale's President James Rowland Angell announced last week that by October. 1930, Yale would have a new $1,500,000 building to house an "Institute of Human Relations." Taking all knowledge for its province, this institute will seek to correlate the branches of learning, to produce a graduate super-informed, trained and inspired to analyze and minister to individuals, to social groups.

The new Institute intends no reorganization of the University's present departments. Instead, each department will contribute to the Institute's study of all factors of human behavior and relations. Biologists, psychologists, economists, sociologists will join in the study of applied sciences like law, medicine, psychiatry. The Institute will be directed by the deans of the Graduate, Medical, and Law Schools, one social scientist, one natural scientist.

Said President Angell: "The Institute will foster no fads and hold no briefs for theories except those which grow out of thorough scientific investigation. It is believed by those organizing the Institute of Human Relations that the specialization which followed the important scientific discoveries of the last century has done much to advance man's knowledge of human life and the technique for dealing with special phases of it, but that the time has now come for drawing together this knowledge and applying it to the best advantage of mankind as a whole. Man himself must now be the center of study, and his welfare an end and aim of the biological and social sciences and of the related professions."

As is usually the case, it was learned last week that Yale's Institute idea had been under consideration five years, that plans for the new building are already being drawn.