VALE UNIVERSITY

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 5

VALE UNIVERSITY

A MAJOR OBJECTIVE

NEW YORK, March 20

An organisation for the study of human conduct is being created on ai. impressive scale at Yale University. It lias already at its disposal a fund of 7,500.000 dollars (IT,500,000) in the form of gifts from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and from Airs Stephen V. Darkness, whose husband has given many millions of dollars to both Yale and Harvard Universities.

The Institute of .tinman Relations, as -it is called, aims at bringing together psychologists, biologists, economists, and sociologists, who will join with their colleagues, in the fields of applied science, such as law, medicihe and pychiatrv, to correlate the know, ledge of mind and body and of individual and group conduct. They will study the inter-relations and lac tors ol human behaviour.

Dr James Angoll. president of the University, said that the study of human conduct would be made one of the major objectives of Yale’s existence, and to that end all the departments of social and natural science in the university would co-operate with the institute and with the graduate iuid research departments. There are to he about fifty members in the ins>e tute staff. Each will bold an apppintment in a fundamental university department in order to articulate its work with that of the’university as a whole. It is hoped to have the institute in operation by October, 1930.