YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY _
265
ALUMNI IDEALN,
More Suggestions about the Presi-
dency from Graduates,
A CITIZEN DEMANDED.
A Boston lawyer says:
“The President of Yale must be a
man of highest character. He should
be respected and influential among men
of his profession, and he should have
influence and interest in all affairs in-
volving good citizenship and the public
weal. I do not believe a man is com-
petent to lead the life of a community
of American boys who fails here; there
is no use of American colleges more
important than the establishing of a
high ideal of a citizen’s duty, and his
attitude toward public questions.
“The President of Yale should be a
man far-sighted and sagacious. He
should realize that even on the thres-
hold of a third century of life Yale is
still only laying foundations, and that
to meet the demands of otr vastly
growing country, it is impossible to
build too broadly. The department
which seems visionary to-day, will
teem with intellectual activity in
another decade or quarter century. If
funds are not to be had, at least this
alert outlook on the coming demands
can be a charted sea, to be conquered
as fast aS means are forthcoming.
lf ship-building is to be a great field
for Americans in the near future, then
we should be ready to supply the men
to design and improve.
“Of course, the President should be
scholarly, if not a scholar. He should
be an American from his feet to the
crown of his hat. He should be soaked
in the traditions and the ambitions of
Yale University. -
“Tf there is not a Yale man to meet
these exigencies, then let us run on
under a regency until Providence finds
some one whose career can be started
at Yale and whose later life from about
forty years to seventy can continue the
potent course of mind-training and
character-building which we are proud
of in Yale.” :
CHARACTER AND DRIVE.
“D” believes in. manly character and
in expansion, writing thus:
“T would choose for the Presidency
of Yale a broad-minded, intelligent,
magnetic, enthusiastic young Christian
gentleman. I care not a fig whether
he be clergyman or layman. By a
young man, [ mean one not over forty
years: of age. If he were sound-
hearted and level-headed he could not
move’ too enthusiastically or too rap-
idly, to suit me, in increasing Yale’s
greatness and power. Like St. Paul,
he should be, in the best sense, ‘all
things to all men’—politic, urbane,
winning, quick to grasp every oppor-
tunity for making and keeping friends
for Yale. Tactful and sympathetic, he
should win the hearts of the students
by manly appreciation and perception
of their abilities and their aspirations.
“He should be so broad as not to fall
into the ruts so dangerous to the
progress of a pedagogue and should be
tall enough, so to speak, to be able to
survey in a general way the full area
of the educational field.
“He should have a good general idea
of financial matters, with a realization of
the fact that a full purse, when wisely
used, can be made the means of ac-
complishing vast good. He should be
thoroughly imbued with the feeling that
the broader the opportunities offered to
secure an education at Yale, the bet-
ter, in the long run, for the country
and mankind, and being thus imbued
it should be one of his chief aims to
gather, within the walls of Yale, the
largest possible number of students.
“He should foster the proverbial
Yale democratic spirit, applaud and
laud every worthy demonstration of
Yale sand, and, placing himself at the
head of the great Yale procession, he
should lead it on toward everything that
makes for the glory of Yale and the
uplifting and advancement of a pro-
gressive world.”
THE ELEMENT OF PERSONALITY,
A man of literary life and of life
among men emphasizes the personal
element thus: 3
powerful for high ambitions in the
minds of youth as that of a man of
“He should be a man of commanding :
personality. There is no influence so
outgoing force and who is worthy of
admiration. He may not teach or lead
chapel services or be heard twice a
year, yet the mere presence of such a
man as Mark Hopkins or Woolsey is
a powerful influence for true manhood,
—because of the high ideals they stand
for and the largeness of their own lives.
“Second: He should be a man in
touch with the movement of the age.
This is a progressive world. No man
can lead who is not close to the great
world-movement. I do not think the
question of profession enters in at all
all. We should not stop to ask ‘Is he
4 minister or lawyer or scientist?’
“T care not whether he be a great
scholar in the sense of being a special-
ist, but he should be a man of large,
ripe experience, familiar with the best
thought in all departments of life.
Neither would I worry much over the
question of his being a financier. A
college is not a bank or a merchant
house. I had rather send a boy for a
four-years stay with Mark Hopkins in
the Maine woods than to send him to
the most richly endowed university
which has no great men. It may have
both endowment and men. So while a
President should not be chosen because
of his talent for begging, yet he should
be a man of keen, far-sighted, executive
ability.
“Third: Get a man who stands for
something in the eyes of the country at
large. - :
FROM ANOTHER COLLEGE,
A member of the Faculty of an insti-
tution in the Middle West writes thus:
“JT should be sorry to see a man
chosen who would try to break with
Yale traditions, and attempt to com-
pete with Harvard and other institu-
tions in the development of the freest
possible elective system. It seems to
me that the tendency toward specializa-
tion in this country is excessive, and,
in the end, will be unfavorable to cul-
ture. It unduly develops individuality,
and narrows the range of one’s intellec-
tual sympathies. This I may say, al-
though I was one of those instrumental
in introducing a wide elective system
in the college with which I am con-
nected.
“T should be glad to see a man chosen
wHo would strive to strengthen » the
teaching force of Yale, in order, first,
to increase the number of teachers in
proportion to the number of students,
and, second, to increase that element
in the Faculty distinguished for strong
teaching, as distinct from mere scholar-
ship.
The scholarly element should not be
neglected, especially with the view of
making the graduate department more
effective. It goes without saying that
for a great institution like Yale the
man selected should be a man of more
than ordinary executive ability.
“President Eliot is my notion of a
college President; with this qualifica-
tion, that a mind like his, under Yale
conditions, should be expected to reach
somewhat different conclusions.”
THE MIDDLE WEST IDEA.
A business man in one of the large
cities of Ohio sums up the conclusions
of the sentiment in his part of the
country as follows: :
“The alumni of the Middle West wish
for the President of Yale a man who
shall above all things be practical.
They want a scholarly man, but some-
thing more than a student. The great
business interests of the University
seem to require an experience with the
world. With all respect to the Church
and to the churchmen who have been
Presidents of Yale, we do not wish to
see the next one a minister. The ex-
panding University with its hundreds
of instructors requires executive ability
of a high order and a knowledge of
men and a practical judgment of their
fitness for special duties. We wish a
man young enough to have before him
many years of active usefulness. There
is not so much need of one who will
solicit gifts and bequests, as of one who
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@ In i858 Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER
saidof
Brown’s BRONCHIAL TROCHES
“T think better of that which I began
thinking well of.” _
@ Fac-Simile
Dr. Henry VanDyke has accepted
the chair in English Literature, re-
cently established for him at Princeton.
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18809. 1808.
Policies in force, . 17,101 31,592
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New premiums rec'd, 39,187 368,659
Renewal prem. rec'd, 609,513 1,552,260
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