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NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1899.
[COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
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“YPFIMOTHY DWIGHT.
PRESIDENT.
RESIGNED YALE PRESIDENCY ON NOVEMBER 17, 1898,
TO TAKE EFFECT AT COMMENCEMENT.
THE CHOICE OF HADLEY.
A Long Process Ended in Accordance
with the General Wish—Great
Enthusiasm—The New
President.
Early in the evening of Thursday,
May 25, the long cheer of Yale rolled
out, with “President Hadley’’at its end.
The first change in the cheer for the
President in thirteen years came from a
crowd of from one thousand to fifteen
hundred students, packed as thickly as
they could press about the house of
Professor Hadley on Whitney avenue.
The news was then hardly two hours
old. Just before five o’clock in the
afternoon the Corporation had finished
its all-day session, and the almost
desperately curious waiters for the news
who had hung about the Treasury
Building the better part of the after-
noon were rewarded by the reappear-
ance of the members of Yale’s supreme
body of control. The members as they
came out seemed not at all averse to
transmitting the
personal friends who crowded around
them; and, on the other hand, Pro-
fessor Dexter, the Secretary of the
Corporation, was very frank with the
newspaper men. At the same time, it
was suggested to those who heard the
news that the matter be not at once too
freely circulated in New Haven, since
‘incredibly short space of time.
information to the.
the Committee of Notification ap-
pointed by the Corporation, consisting
of Dr. Charles Ray Palmer, Dr. T. T.
Munger, and Mr. Thomas G. Bennett,
had so far been unable to find the
President-elect and formally notify him
of the action of the Corporation.
That probably prevented the great
crowd on the Campus, gathered for the
Senior elections,- from breaking into
immediate and enthusiastic cheering,
for the undergraduate mind, as the de-
velopment of the evening showed, was
ready to respond to the news in the
most orthodox and enthusiastic Yale
fashion.
But the caution did not prevent the
quick circulation of such information.
It was of too much importance to be
held back, and it ran all over the Cam-
pus, and then all over the city, and then
began to go out to the country in an
Tele-
phones of atty one near the Campus
or close to those who were on the
Corporation were ringing from noon
on, as a sign of impatient interest of
the most intense kind.
“It looks more and more like Hadley.”
That was the report day after day for
the last two or three weeks in New
Haven. In some way or other the
sentiment for the head of the Eco-
nomic Department seemed to gather
force hourly, and the signs mulitiplied
that that force was felt by the men
ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY.
PRESIDENT ELECT.
CHOSEN AS SUCCESSOR TO TIMOTHY DWIGHT AT THE MEETING
OF THE YALE CORPORATION, MAY 25, 1899.
who had the power of choice. By
the 15th, or at latest the 20th of last
‘month, the Campus talk and the New
Haven talk was confident almost to the
point of certainty, although here and
there the cautious warned against the
danger of announcing in advance the
work of such a body as the Corpora-
tion, with minds of such different tem-
peraments, and with a record of five
months of discussion of a long list of
candidates of the most diverse traits.
It was further urged that, at least up
to the first week or two of May,
no one in the Corporation had been
able to see any reason to be confident
of any settlement at this meeting.
But the confidence was here and the
confidence had begun to spread all over
the Yale world, and if there had been
any other issue than the election of
Professor Hadley to the Presidency of
Yale, there would have been, to put it
mildly, the utmost surprise in thousands
of Yale men’s minds. ;
It was a tremendous relief and satis-
faction to all these to know that the
matter was absolutely settled, and that
the Corporation of Yale had clasped
hands, as it were, with the great
majority of the men of Yale the country
over, who had fastened their convic-
tions and their hopes on this candidate,
and had confidently put the interests of
the Yale University of a new century
into the keeping of the young Profes-
sor of Economics.
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Over $400,000 up to June 1.
The ALUMNI WEEKLY is able to an-
nounce, on the authority of the officers
of the Finance Committee for the Bi-
Centennial, that in answer to the appeal
for general funds, including money to
build a commemorative hall, the Uni-
versity received in cash or personal
pledges up to June 1, the sum of
$404,820.32. pes
This does not include any money that
is not in hand, definitely paid in or
definitely contracted for and on record
in the Treasurer’s office in New Haven.
Not a little money is, at the time of
writing, in the hands of different com-
mittees, and a good many statements
have been received from them saying
what they could do in short time. But
the figure given above is the sum of the
resources actually in hand.
University Navy Officers.
At a meeting of the University held’
on Friday evening, June 2, the follow-
ing officers of the University Navy were
elected for —next year: President,
Richard Jewett Schweppe, 1900, of St.
Louis, Mo.; Vice-President, Ransom
Hooker Gillet, t900S., of Washington,
D. C.; Secretary, Allen Harvey Richard-
son, 1901, of Waterbury,,Conn.
The President and’ Secretary were
elected by acclamation. J. D. Ireland
and R. A. McGee, both of 1900 S., were
nominated for the vice-presidency.
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