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vALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
ALUMNI IDEALS,
Here are Many, from Thoughtful
Wen and Men in Karnest.
If anyone thinks the Yale alumni are
not possessed of positive ideas of
values about the qualities of a Yale
President, he has not heard from many
of them. What is offered to-day comes
from men of most diverse activities, in
widely separated localities, of mainly all
times of life, of contrasted tempera-
ments. They are all men of true suc-
cess in their own lives, of unquestioned
loyalty, and, more important than all,
they are, as far as it is known to us,
men of faith in Yale, and men who
have such estimate of her power and
usefulness as to be unmoved by the
“practical,” who think it waste of time
to talk about ideal men. They con-
sider that at best in Yale University
ideals can and must be held to, and
they hold this not- the least of the head
of the University.
A BUSINESS MAN’S VIEW.
Here is a letter from a man who is
busy and successful and in active life
and always in the harness for Yale:
“The two questions which you have
asked are comparatively easy to answer,
but to find this ideal man is quite
another question.
“First of all, the President of Yale
should be a broad-minded man of great
executive ability and yet a thoroughly
equipped scholar. It will not do to
have as President of the College merely
a successiul business man who would
be of great value to the financial end of
the Corporation. Although a man of
this kind is essential, yet he must com-
bine with that knowledge of the educa-
tional needs of a great university. This
is of vital importance.
“Education in its present form is
making wonderful strides. The op-
tional system is not only something that
has come to stay, but must be developed
in the most thorough way. The Uni-
versity as a whole should be welded into
a more compact body, where every de-
partment is run under one recognized
head for the common good. The de-
velopment of two departments on the
same subject in different branches of
the University seems useless.
“Of course, it is unecessary for me
to go into details in regard to this, but
everyone who has the interests of the
College at heart knows what I mean.
The third and last quality which the
ideal President must possess is strength
and enthusiasm; they go hand in hand.
The President of Yale must be strong
in body as well as in mind. A man of
the greatest intellectual strength with-
out health would be of little use. Of
course enthusiasm goes with strength
and is necessary for the success of
everything.”
MUST BE AN EDUCATOR AND CLERGYMAN.
A man of mature years, whose life
study and life work make his judgments
on this question of particular value,
writes thus:
“First, the ideal President should be
an educator. I mean by this that in
addition to the mastery of some spe-
cialty in scholarship, he should be ex-
pert in matters connected with educa-
tion, both as a science and as an art;
and particularly should he be compe-
tent to command confidence in his
leadership in those important questions
poree gers with university administra-
ion.
“He should also be a clergyman, be-
cause the training and experience of
clergymen best fit them for those deli-
cate duties in the training of character
and the education of conscience which
form in my opinion the supreme work
of education. Furthermore, he should
be accustomed to address the students
on matters connected with their per-
sonal lives in the way in which one can
so easily do who properly conducts
morning prayers, so long as they are
continued; and he should also be able,
whenever occasion requires, to fill the
College pulpit. I understand that the
present Committee on College Supplies
refuses to admit laymen into that pul-
pit to address the students of the Uni-
versity; and that for this reason men
like Mr. Robert E, Speer cannot pe
heard there. For this reason I repeat
that it 1s important that the President
of the University should be a clergy-
man. Then’ again, the ideal personal
life of the clergyman is naturally more
closely identified with the exercise of
those spiritual influences which must
after all determine. the tone of college
life.
“Tt is important also that the Presi-
dent of the University should be a man
of such excellent judgment in general
that men of means should feel assured
that gifts to the University will be most
wisely applied.
“T consider the question of age to be
purely secondary. If a man such as I
have suggested can be found who is
under fifty years of age, well and good;
but if he is fifty-five that is no reason
why he should be passed by. He would
still be available for fifteen years of most
effective service. I have seen it sug-
gested often that the next President
should be a business man. I was
pleased, therefore, to see in an article
on this subject from my classmate, Pro-
fessor Beers, his positive opinion that
the President should be a clergyman,
and his equally positive opinion that
he should be selected to be at the head,
not of the commercial or financial side
of the University, but the head of. its
educational work. A university is an
institution of learning, and and _ its
President should be such a man as an
institution of learning requires.
“So far as possible these qualities
should be insisted upon. But in the ab-
sence of such a candidate then let the
next incumbent of the presidency be a
man who will at least hold the College
to its present rank, if he is not able to
carry it forward. In my opinion the
President should not be chosen from
the Faculty. He should be the servant
of the Corporation. He should not be
the creature of those over whom he is
supposed to preside. Nevertheless, he
should be a man who would be accepta-
ble to the faculties of the University;
a man who should have their confidence
as a leader in all questions of university
administration. I doubt whether he
could wisely be chosen outside of the
body of Yale graduates.”
A CALL FOR LEADERSHIP.
An officer of a financial institution
puts it this way:
“My ideal man for the position of
President is one who has a broad edu-
cation, in those studies which fit a man
to be a leader on the political and
economic questions of the day. -
“The second requirement—and I
hardly know whether this should go
first or second—is that he shall be a man
of broad sympathy, who by his experi-
ence, judgment and_= straightforward
manliness, will be able to call to his
support the conservative as well as the
so-called younger and progressive ele-
ment among the alumni of the Univer-
sity.
“And third, if these could be combined
in a young man who has been educated
in the Yale spirit of democracy, I would
say. that we would have a model Presi-
dent for Yale University.”
TEN ESSENTIALS.
One of the most thoughtful and
active of the younger alumni names
these qualities:
“I. He must be a Yale graduate. 2.
Must have strong Christian convictions.
3. Man of wide knowledge of men and
of tact in dealing with them. 4. A gen-
tleman of scholarly tastes and broad
culture. 5. Broad educational views.
6. Executive ability and energy. 7. A
thorough believer in American De-
mocracy. 8 A man of warm ‘heart and
pleasing personality. 9. An interesting
speaker. 10. A judicious man.
“TI would gladly dilate on these points
at length, but think it unnecessary. I
believe that no man can be a thor-
oughly successful President of Yale who
does not possess them ali—and that any
man possessing them all would be ac-
ceptable in the Presidency.
“TI wish you would underline number
7 three times, and print it in bold type.
No “calamity prophet,’ no one who
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From the “Hartford Courant,” Jan. 25, 1899.
THE PHCENIX MUTUAL LIFE.
Its Excellent Statement for the Past Year.
The forty-eighth annual statement of the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company is
published elsewhere this morning and gives
gratifying evidence of the wise management
and healthy progress of this large Hartford
concern. The gross assets exceed $11,660,-
000, having increased over $600,000 during
the past year. The surplus is now over
$660,000, and the amount of insurance in
force is $51,170,782, represented by 31,592
policies.
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valuations and are worth decidedly more than
they are set in at. The company has dis-
posed of about $50,000 of its real estate dur-
ing the year, and has added over $500,C00 to
its stocks and bonds. Its strength is very
great and it has the confidence of all in the
insurance business as well as the general
public. The drift of new business toward
the Phoenix Mutual is shown by the figures.
During the past three years the new policies
issued were respectively 5506, 6570 and 7757
for respectively $9,871,601, $11,770,989 and
$13,068,715—an increase of over 2000 in
number and $3,200,000 in amount in two
years.
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illustrated by looking back a little and com-
paring the figures of say, 1889 with those of
1898. They are as follows :—
1880. 1898.
Policies in force, 17,101 31,592
Outstanding insur., . $23,955.464$51,170,782
New premiums rec'd, 39,187 368,659
Renewal prem. rec'd, 609,513 1,552,260
The policies in force have almost doubled
in number and more than doubled in amount;
the new premiums have increased tenfold,
and the company has stepped into a large and
honorable place among the life insurance
interests of the cityand country. Its manage-
ment, under President Bunce, Vice-President
Holcombe and Secretary Lawrence, has proved
a noteworthy success, as the figures amply
demonstrate.
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