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NEw Haven, Conn., APRIL 5, 1899.
YALE’S NEXT PRESIDENT.
“Smith—He can write and read, and
cast accompt.
Cade—O monstrous!
Smith—We took him setting of boy’s
copies.
Cade—Here’s a villain.”
An attempt has been made to be-
little the desire to secure a man of ex-
ceptional qualities for the position of
Yales’s next President. One writer in
commenting upon the desires of the
Yale alumni has tabulated the following
qualities as demanded by them:
Strong human sympathy,
Magnetic stimulating influence,
Orthodox religious views,
Inspiration to reverence,
Strong religious nature,
Expert knowledge in pedagogics,
Highly developed administrative tal-
cnt,
Marked financial acumen,
and has then proceeded to ridicule such
a combination as something super-
human—something that the Almighty
would never consent to create. Yet as
a matter of fact it would be necessary
to search through only a few names of
Yale presidents to find a man whom the
Almighty did create quite equal to an-
swering these requirements, and_ this
editor who sweeps aside the wish of
men for a noble head of a noble insti-
tution that has the making of some
thousands of picked young men annu-
ally, might with advantage be intro-
duced to President Clap and be given
an opportunity of taking off his hat to
the shadow of a man who might teach
him the possibilities of such a com-
bination as those looked for by Yale
graduates. “There were giants in
those days” may be true, but there are
giants to-day if one is willing to
search for them. What was the situ-
ation that faced the trustees in 1740,
and what is it now? Yale can not
stand still. She will fall behind if she
fails to advance.
Just previous to the reign .of Presi-
dent Clap, the trustees, standing on the
threshold of more dangers than they
knew, needing a strong hand to sup-
press the growing disorders, and a wise
head to recognize the broadening of
the field of knowledge and the necessity
of enlarging the course of study to
meet the demands of the age, felt that
there was an imperative call for a man
of character, of high attainments as a
scholar, acquainted with affairs and one
having the confidence of the community.
They chose the Rev. Thomas Clap.
He was well posted upon the whole
range of academical studies, had uncom-
mon qualifications for the transaction
of business, and great energy of charac-
ter. He was installed in April of 1740.
Almost at once he began to make pass
under his eye everything connected with
the College. He undertook a compila-
tion of laws and then transcribed them
into Latin, took up the customs of
the College and made a volume of
them, explaining them in due course
to the students. Then he compiled a
catalogue of the College library. Never
resting, he went before the Legislature
and secured an increase of the annual
gift so that two more tutors could be
supported, added. natural philosophy
and further mathematics to the courses,
and a little later, courses in conic sec-
tions, surveying, navigation and the
calculation of eclipses. He next led the
two upper classes into debates twice a
week, added to his own duties public
lectures on civil government, constitu-
tional and ecclesiastical government.
But this was only a beginning. He
then proceeded to draft a new charter,
carried it up torthe Legislature and se-
cured its adoption. He brought the
College successfully through the war.
He then secured the funds and assist-
ance and. built Connecticut Hall or
South Middle, caused the establishment
of Linonia, founded a chair for a pro-
fessor of divinity when the religious
disturbances and disagreements threat-
ened the College. He established a
College church, secured the funds and
built a house for the professor of
divinity, engaged in a pamphlet war on
questions relating to the conduct of the
College and won his way.
He advanced the College safely
through a change in power of the par-
ties and having had all the favors of
the “Old Lights” was equally success-
ful with the “New Lights,” leading
their party, then just come into power
in the Legislature, to assist in build-
ing a chapel. His enemies fought him
unceasingly and went before the Legis-
lature to secure an appointment of a
Board of Visitors to look into the
affairs of the College. He made his
final triumph in defeating this move
and then, broken by the work of twenty-
seven years in which he thad accom-
plished such successes for the College
as could hardly be measured, resigned
and died in the sixty-fourth year of his
-age.
Yale needs such a man to-day, needs
him as she has not needed a man for a
long time. Not perhaps for the same
purposes, for in the Faculty he can
now find more help, but with that same
rugged and well developed character
and the ambition for the University that
may allow him little of the otium cum
dignitate, but which will carry Yale to
the front by the sacrifice.
And as Yale needs him, the country
needs him in that very position, where
as head of an institution of learning he
may make the chosen youth under him
men who are fitted to see clearly, think
soundly, and act bravely, when, later in
life, they find themselves, after some
buffeting, in positions where their views
may help or hurt the community.
—_— we
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TWO MILLIONS.
Two millions is a good deal of money.
But Yale can get it! We rest. this
faith on our conviction that Yale men
will know what the raising of this fund
means to the University. That being
assured, the Yale man’s feeling towards
the University will take care of the rest.
It is unnecessary to go over the argu-
ments. October, 1901, is the time when
Yale will declare herself to the world.
She will then show not only what she
has done, but what she proposes to do.
Now the testimony of history will not
be alone sufficient to create faith in the
prophecy.. Quite as important and es-
sential a question will be: Has she the
means and the equipment to begin to
carry out her work in the American
education of the twentieth century? If
Yale comes to her two hundredth birth-
day with plans and hopes and prophecies
only, she will be only a pathetic spec-
tacle; the glory of her past will only
emphasize her impotence before the
tremendous work which should be hers
in the next century.
Can she get all she will need for an
indefinite future in these next few
months of busy committee campaign-
But what
she must show is that she has in her-
ing? Not by any means.
self, in her sons and immediate friends,
enough strength and vitality and self-
confidence, to. prepare her for the be-
ginning of the new work.
That is where the appeal of the Com-
mittee on Funds, to every alumnus of
Yale, has its great force. Friends who
are not within the immediate brother-
hood of Yale will doubtless greatly help,
but the test will come in the way in
which Yale’s own sons answer the call,
This will be Yale’s birthday; this will
be her great commencement season, in
the old sense of the word, for a new
term of unthought-of power and use-
fulness; and the way Yale prepares
herself for it will declare her «real
strength before the rest of the world,
upon whose generous good-will she has
hitherto greatly drawn and must still
more greatly draw in the future.
A beginning has been made. Two
hundred and twenty-five thousand dol-
lars are already announced as secured
by subscription. But this is merely a
beginning. The work is entirely pre-
liminary. A few very generous friends
The
real work is yet to come, and no man
have started things for a time.
can judge from the example of others
Each son of Yale will
now measure his loyalty by the amount
for himself.
of sacrifice he is willing to make. It
cannot be a question of how much one
can give without feeling it; it is a ques-
tion of how much one is willing to hurt
himself for Yale, and this applies quite
as much to those of most moderate re-
sources as to those whose gifts may run
into the hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
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An Eminent American.
[Waterbury American.]
The death of Prof. Marsh removes
more than a man who was one of the
most eminent scientists in the world.
It removes a man who, having inherited
wealth—Prof. Marsh was a nephew of
George Peabody, the philanthropist—
made of that wealth an opportunity for
a career. He did what so few men of
wealth do, employed the leisure which
his fortune gave him to further scienti-
fic investigation and to confer benefits
upon the race. Probably few Ameri-
canis appreciate that Prof. Marsh ranked
with Huxley, Tyndall, Darwin and
Spencer in his verification of the doc-
trine of evolution. The first thing that
Prof. Huxley desired on _ visiting
America was to see those famous five-
toed horses, while Darwin said that
to see them would be almost of itself
a sufficient reason for crossing the
Atlantic. Measured by intellectual
achievement, one of the foremost citi-
zens of the United States has passed
away in Prof. Marsh. The same thing
may almost be said of him as a man,
so modest, unassuming and kindly was
he in all the relations of life.
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The Cruiser Guns and Colors.
It has been decided by the officers
of the University to place the guns of
the Crusier Yale in the hallway at the
foot of the stairs in the Gymnasium.
It is considered by them more appro-
priate than the Trophy Room, and the
site offers less difficulties.
The Cruiser Fund Committee re-
ceived from the Navy Department last
week the announcement that the guns
had been’ sent to the University, and
also the word that the colors of the
cruiser were ordered shipped to the
University from Annapolis, where they
have been kept at the Academy.
On receipt of this intelligence, word
was at once sent to the University that
the Committee would be pleased to
assist in any way possible in the placing
and care of the guns. The fact. was re-
called, in sending this communication,
that appropriation had been definitely
made for this. purpose, by the Com-
mittee,”
be a a
The University of Wisconsin has
finally decided to enter a crew in the
Poughkeepsie regatta, June 27.
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