TALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
991
PRESIDENTIAL QUALITIES,
Siow Different Alumni Express Their
Ideals.
The individual expressions of opinion
as to the qualities needed in the next
president of Yale, have been received
from alumni in all parts of the country
in such numbers as to make their re-
production in any one issue impossible.
A free statement of opinion was secured
by the assurance that the names would
not be used. It seemed to the WEEKLY
that the advantages of this system more
than compensated for the omission of
names. But here are some opinions
taken almost at random:
The following is not from a New
“Haven alumnus:
“The next president should be a man
of God and scholarship, a strong force-
ful, dignified man (though his body be
as frail as that of Alex. H. Stephens),
an examplar of and a type of the best
manhood. Ideal collegiate education
sifted down resolves into unconscious
imitation of high ideals. So I dread the
incoming of bald scholarship, too often
tinctured with cynicism or an absence
of human sympathy.
I view with alarm the likelihood of
Yale’s yielding to the modern clamor
for a mere fiscal agent to set the pace
of the best manhoed for 3,000 chosen
youth,
I lay stress on sterling attractive
Christian character in our president,
which must be attended by a scholar-
ship that commands respect and a su-
preme royal manhood to which every
student defers in his heart, as its pos-
sessor passes him on.the Campus. The
collecting of funds can be attended to
by others if the ideal lacks at that
point—the most immaterial of all. If
such a man does not present himself
in the present Faculty, the Yale Cor-
poration would do well to canvass heads
oi smaller institutions, which would be
ready to surrender at this emergency
in the history of Yale. I recognize that
such men are rare, but there is a large
section of this country west of the Hud-
son river, much of it surveyed and all
of it explored.”
A CONNECTICUT VIEW.
A Connecticut man writes as follows:
“First: He ought to be under fifty-
five years of age (else I should be an
enthusiastic advocate of Andrew White
or Professor Fisher for the Presidency).
Second: He must be a man of high
personal character; absolute and beyond
possibility of mistake in this regard.
Third: He must be a scholar. This
is a word of wide range, and I use it
in a broad sense.
Fourth: He must be a man of good
sense in business matters. He ought
not to be an old woman or a Wall
street sharp, but he should know the
difference between a railroad bond and
a French dictionary, and should be a
man who has proved by his own life
that he has some business ideas, hasn’t
run into debt ‘or advocated crankism.
Fifth: He should be a man of address
and tact.
Sixth: He should be a man of fair
health.
Seventh: He should be a man of
acquaintance with the men of affairs and
also with the scholars of the country.
There are a number of matters out-
side those which I have gone into, about
which I would say a word. If the ap-
pointment could be popular with the
graduates and undergraduates of the
University, it would be very desirable.
If he were a full graduate, an A.B. or
a Ph.B. of Yale, it would also be most
desirable, and JI think the catalogue of
these men and then of graduates of a
higher degree should be searched with
drag nets before we look outside the
fold for a president.
As to whether he should be a layman
or a Cleric, I care very little. I should
prefer a layman, chiefly because I think
that is public sentiment among the
friends whom it is most important for
Yale to keep. But I have known quite
a number of clerical brethren who had
common sense and breadth of vision
sufficient to run a great university. I
agree that such men are very scarce in
the clerical profession, but there are
such men. President Dwight and
President Woolsey have filled our ideal
and they were both clergymen, al-
though Dr. Woolsey was transformed
professionally from an international
lawyer and Greek scholar into a clergy-
man between two days.”
FROM NEW YORK.
A New York man puts it this way:
“T think the next President of Yale
should be a Yale graduate; a man
whose religious views are in sympathy
with the religious tone which the Col-
lege has endeavored to maintain in the
past; a man of broad culture and one
who would be likely to keep up the
standard of Yale scholarship, both in
the Faculty and among the students;
and a man of some experience beyond
the limits of the Campus, who would
introduce into the Universitv a suavity
of manner that would combine finely
with its sterner virtues.”
FROM CHICAGO.
These opinions are held by an active
Chicago alumnus :—
“Personally I am opposed to electing
any one of the prominent Yale alumni
engaged in other than scholastic pur-
suits, who have been mentioned by the
press of the country for the honor.
favor the election of one of the members
of the present Faculty; a man of learn-
ing, a man of national reputation, and a
man who will preserve the ancient
traditions of Yale and who will prevent
the adoption of the modern educational
fads which now prevail at many of our
universities. There are a number of
mushroom colleges in this country, and
I for one do not wish to see Yale
‘modernized’ in any way whatever.
There is no need to go outside of the
Yale Faculty for a President.”
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A FINANCIER’S VIEWS.
This is the brief summary of a
Pennsylvania financier:
“In my judgment, it would be well
for the University to have at this
juncture a man who is essentially pre-
eminent, by reason of a varied and
vigorous intellectuality, and that while
it is essential that he should be an
administrator, and even one of the first
order, yet that the former should be the
dominant quality.”
Another Eastern man,
worker, says:
“First: The ideal President of Yale
should be a gentleman and a scholar;
a Christian, a man of the world and a
man of affairs. |
“Second: The essential qualities for
an ideal president of Yale seem to me,
first, an appreciation of intellectual
values. I would not have the scholarly
man at Yale limited and hindered in
the performance of their best work by
a mere business manager whose one
idea was to give them twenty-five per
cent. less than they ask for, irrespective
of their appeals.
“Secondly: The ideal president must
be a man of progress; he needs to ap-
preciate educational progress, social
progress and political progress.
“Third: He must be a man of*execu-
tive capacity, in order that he may
know how to express and how to real-
ize and aid others in realizing his and
their pedagogic and administrative
ideals.
“Financial administration, the ability
to tell funny stories, to make eloquent
appeals, seem to me qualities the es-
sential value of which has been greatly
over-estimated.
“The Treasurer can look out for
funds, the Alumni can furnish the jokes,
a political
A BUSINESS MAN’S VIEW.
Another eastern business man writes:
“Superficially you want a presentable
sort of a man, who can make.an after-
dinner speech.. His qualities in the
begging line should not be overlooked.
“But your ideal. Why the whole size
of it is just here. You want a man
of good judgment and _ intellectuals;
whether he is a scholar or not makes
no difference; whether he is a clergy-
man or not makes no difference; but
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