YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
2°78
ALUMNI IDEALS,
More Suggestions about the Presi-
deney from Graduates,
A YOUNG MAN’S VIEW.
A recent Yale alumnus, a forceful
leader in a strong class, now a driving
man of business and a successful one,
writes:
“My ideal Yale President must have
the following qualities:
“tst. Scholarly attainments.
“2d. Broad-mindedness.
“3d. Progressiveness and _ business
abtlity:
“4th. Gentlemanly bearing.
“sth. Good address.
“6th. Absence of fame as a leader on
any religious or political question.
“7th. Appreciation of a young man’s
feelings and of good college sentiment
and good old traditions.
“8th. A Yale diploma.
“oth. Good health, enthusiasm, com-
mon-sense and energy.
“toth. Must be deeply religious, but
not necessarily a theologian.” ,
A LAWYER OR MINISTER, AGE FIFTY.
A Pittsburg lawyer puts it this way:
“A Yale man of about fifty years, who
has spent his life in the Law or Ministry
—preferably the Law—but who has
maintained an interest in and kept in
touch with the world of letters, would
come pretty near filling the bill. His
being a Yale man would insure his
knowing Yale, her traditions and cus-
toms, and so-.enable him to appreciate
and understand her needs better. He
would be progressive with a true Yale
progressiveness, which may differ from
the way the word is understood in some
of our far Western towns.
“The age I put is one that insures
full maturity of powers and yet many
years of useful activity. It will mean
that the new President will have plenty
of time and opportunity for the careful,-
gradual development of his policy. In
an institution like Yale, frequent
changes in the Presidency are unset-
tling and undesirable. Training in the
law would give knowledge of men and
affairs, a grasp on such questions as
he would be called on to decide and
above all, a trained mind.
“The man I speak of has not devoted
himself exclusively to the Law, but has
kept up his classics, has found time for
some study of History and Art. In a
word, he is a broad man and one on
whose shoulders the mantle of the
Presidency would sit easily. His
career as a lawyer has fitted him to be
the executive head of the University,
grapple with questions of Finance, and
at the same time has given him the
requisite experience in public speaking
to enable him to represent Yale on pub-
lic occasions.”
A LOUISVILLE VIEW.
A Louisville graduate of about fifteen
years standing describes his ideal as
follows:
“The President of Yale should be not
only a man of deep scholarship, but of
business abilities and of broad sympa-
thies. Yale University has grown so
large that it seems to me that the per-
son occupying the Presidency of the in-
stitution should possess great admin-
istrative abilities as well as reputation
as a scholar. The position he occupies
is such a conspicuous one, that it must
necessarily be filled by a man of de-
cided scholarship, but it seems to me he
should have that administrative talent
that is required not only to conduct
the affairs of a great institution, but
to continue its growth.
“In addition, he should be a well-
rounded man free from provincialisms
and narrowness of everv description. I
don’t know what qualities are absolutely
essential to one occupying that position,
but it seems to me that those above
enumerated should be possessed by the
occupant of that position. I am im-
pressed with the fact that administra-
tive abilities and broad sympathies are
as absolutely essential to the occupant
of the position as is great scholarship.”
THREE DIMENSIONS.
‘The following is from a New York
lawyer, who was graduated about thirty
years ago:
“Our ideal President should b
. bd . re
stituted in three dimensions. is
He must be a man of affairs with
fine ae and executive ability of
the highest order. This first dimension
I regard as of first and last importance,
even vital to the qualifications of any
Yale President. |
“The second dimension includes
scholarship and those literary qualities
which our traditions have handed down,
together with knowledge of the new
science of instruction developed in re-
cent years. coy
“The third dimension regards the
capacity of our candidate to erepresent
the University and secure its fair con-
sideration in the world, upon whose
favor rests its future support and main-
tenance. -
“So much for the office. As for the
man himself, it goes without saying that
he should lack none of the moral quali-
ties which make up the ideal man, re-
fined and sweetened by the virtues ex-
tolled by St. Paul,—the greatest of
which is Charity.’
A WESTERN PROFESSOR’S ANSWER.
One of the professors of a Western
College; a Yale graduate, answers the
questions thus: 7
“A man, layman preferred, because
in the case of a clergyman an absence
of desirable qualifications may be .over-
looked simply because the man is a
clergyman,—who is not necessarily or
primarily a money-getter—rather one
who appreciates fully what a University
may do for a country, and wishes to ad-
minister it, that, in conjunction with
other universities, it may accomplish
that,—and not live for its own glory.
He should be one, who, though not a
conservative in the University, yet will
make the University conservative (by
conservatism I mean not holding on to
the bad things oi the present—but of
that which is good) in the country at
large. One who will see to it that the
University stands even more, in several
of its departments, for the advancement
of learning.
“Primarily a keen intellect and re-
markable abilities as executive and stu-
dent of human nature, as well as grasp
of the general condition of thought
morally and politically; sufficient learn-
ing to grasp the general scope of uni-
versity work; avoidance of sham,
straightforwardness,—no tendency to
run college on up-to-date daily news-
paper plan; no desire to make a
fashionable college, but a place for
hard, steady work, scholastic and
literary. Social, athletic and other
student activities will take care of
themselves.”
FROM WILKES BARRE.
A report from Wilkes Barre alumni
reads thus:
“We looked into Yale in the future
under a new President sufficiently for
me to say that we want a man not be-
yond middle age, a graduate of old
Yale, if possible, whose training and ac-
complishments give promise of the best
business administration, in its broadest
sense.
“We realize that Yale University is
not the Yale of our day and that the
new President need not be called upon
to give instruction on the human intel-
lect, nor be reminiscent of early train-
ing in Congregational pulpits of Con-
necticut towns. We believe that the
next President of Yale, whether he be
clerical or lay, should be selected with
the view of the best managing, binding
together and pushing forward the many
interests of the big corporation that the
University has become, and that a busi-
ness ability akin to Dr: Depew’s should
be the first consideration.”
A NEWSPAPER VIEW.
, An editor puts it this way:
“Aman who values scholarship, re-
spects tradition and yet knows men and
the motives of men; a man of adminis-
trative parts. He should not be simply
a good business man. Such a man is
more likely to be developed by the
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