YALE ALUMNI WHEKLY
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reports as Labor Commissioner were
very widely read and very favorably re-
ceived. The fact that he was not re-
appointed by Governor Lounsbury is a
fact related to other considerations in
State government than fitness for office
and the -approval and appreciation of
those most concerned.
WORK IN DEBATE,
Professor Hadley, the leader of the
revival of debate at Yale, is certainly
most interesting as he takes his place
as the leader of Yale. When he, with
Mr. Raynolds as a co-worker, and
occasional assistance from other mem-
bers of the Faculty, placed himself be-
hind the feeble: forces of debate, he
showed an appreciation of a great need
at Yale and a great opportunity. His
record in that work is too much a part
of current history to need repetition.
Like his instruction, it was original and
suggestive and inspiring, helping men
to develop their own resources and to
know their own ground. :
This incident is illustrative of his
appreciation and knowledge of the life
of Yale and his earnest loyalty in pre-
serving and developing the best side of
it. To the average Yale man no
characteristic of the President is more
interesting or more important than this.
The Campus is an open book to him
and it is an immensely interesting study
every day. As far as the presiding
officer of Yale can influence the records
of that volume, no one need fear that
what may be written into it under the
influence of the Hadley administration
will be other than wholesome and
simple and honorable and genuinely
democratic.
IN HIS OWN COLLEGE COURSE.
Professor Hadley was very much of
the life of Yale in his own day. He
was a member of a society in each
year,— Delta Kappa in Freshman year,
Delta Beta Xi in Sophomore year,
Delta Kappa Epsilon in Junior year and
Skull and Bones in Senior year. His
father is said to have been opposed to
the society system, but the son not only
identified himself with it in College
but has kept up his connections ever
since and seems to recognize in it a
natural organization, bound to exist in
one form or another, in the main well-
constructed and most useful and im-
portant in influencing undergraduate
sentiment and life. In his sketch of
Yale in the book published by Harper
& Brothers on “Four American Uni-
versities’ a few years ago, he made a
very skilful analysis of the general
system of society honors, developing
principally the fact that it was largely,
if not entirely, based on a man’s posi-.
tion as a member of the community,
that is, as in one way or another con-
tributing something to Yale. -
Professor Hadley is a member of the
Graduates Club of New Haven and the
Century and Reform Clubs of New
York. He takes a good deal of active
exercise in tennis and golf, and closely
follows the main intercollegiate sports.
He is a believer in athletics. He is an
unusual whist and chess player, al-
though of the latter game he used to
say in his college days he wished he
could play as well as he did when he
was nine years old. He is described
by those who know him as a man well
versed in practical affairs, including the
charge of money and investments.
“In Economics,’ says Mr. Deming,
he may fairly be classified as a tentative
and professional free trader; in relig-
ion, a Congregationalist; in general
politics an Independent.”
HIS BELIEF.
A word more is in order as to his
religious attitude. Professor Hadley is
a communicant in the College Church
and a regular attendant there. He not
infrequently addresses the meetings at
Dwight Hall in the evening and ‘is al-
ways very eagerly listened to there. At
the meeting of the New York alumni
in the Winter of 1808, he said, conclud-
ing certain remarks on temperance at
Yale: “I like to fall back on the words
of Arnold of Rugby: “It is not our chief
concern whether this should be a col-
lege of one hundred and fifty boys, or
of three hundred boys: but that it
should be a college of Christian gentle-
men. |
EXECUTIVE CAPACITY. |
Prof. Hadley’s power -as an execu-
tive is yet to be tested. The only
considerable position in which he might
have had an opportunity to demonstrate
this was his Deanship of the Graduate
School. But there were circumstances
in connection with that office which
make it quite impossible to judge
definitely from that. The only thing
that experience showed, was that he was
a believer in the highest possible stand-
ard of work, that the quality of Yale
scholarship interested him much more
than the quantity of Yale scholars.
The writer has never heard more than
two points raised against the fair pros-
pect of his success in his present posi-
tion. One is his extremely sensitive,
nervous system, which some have feared
would not stand the strain of this load
of responsibility. It seems very unrea-
sonable to borrow trouble on this score.
He is a man who lives a very rational
life and who fully appreciates the rela-
tions of things in a well ordered day.
There is quite as much reason to believe
that the influence of the new position
would be towards quieting and steady-
ing rather than towards exciting and
wearing down. |
There are, in the second place some
who have questioned whether Professor
Hadley would be willing to go ahead,
out of his own confidence against great
opposition, in times of change and con-
flict. As far as he has been able to
show himself in the short time lapsing
since his election, he thas given the
impression of a man with very definite
ideas of what he wanted to do, and with
a very settled purpose of carrying out
those ideas. He has shown great frank-
ness in discussing the different matters
that crowd for attention and.a desire to
get all the advice possible.
AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION.
In the introduction to his Economics,
Professor Hadley refers to his wife as
“one on whom I have depended both
for criticism and assistance at every
stage of the work.” Such a statement
does not come at all as a surprise to
those who knew Mrs. Hadley. It is
not possible to say much under this
head, although it is a most important
consideration. But it must at least be
set down, for the sake of a complete
record that one could hardly be thought
of who could be counted ‘on to meet
with more success the duties and oppor-
tunities of the wife of the President of
Yale. Mrs. Hadley was Helen Harri-
son Morris, daughter of ex-Governor
Luzon B. Morris, Yale ’54. She is a
graduate of Vassar and active in the
alumnae work of that college. ©
LINEAGE.
It remains only to give a few lines
concerning the. family of Professor
Hadley, and a further quotation from
Mr. Deming’s sketch will best cover
the point:
“Arthur Twining Hadley has an aca-
demic lineage. His grandfather, James
Hadley, was a professor of Chemistry
in Fairfield Medical College, Herkimer
County,- N. Y., an institution now
extinct. He was that Prof. Hadley by
whom Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard was
first urged to the botanical study which
gave him later renown. The name of
the new President’s father, James Had-
ley, is an illustrious one in Yale’s long
roll of famous instructors. He was
eminent in literature and scholarship,
as strong in mathematics as he was in
Greek, versed in many sciences and
many tongues, author of the Greek
grammar which was long a standard
text-book in American colleges . and
schools, and a teacher to this day held
in loving memory by thousands of Yale
graduates who recall a gracious per-
sonality of the class-room, blended with
an erudition as modest as it was deep.
Another uncle of the President-elect.
was George Hadley, a professor in
Buffalo Medical College, and a younger
uncle, Henry H. Hadley, was professor
of Hebrew in Union Theological Sem-
inary, and at the Yale Divinity School.
On the sidé of the mother, before mar-
riage, Anne Twining, a daughter of
Stephen Twining, formerly steward of
Yale College, may be named an uncle.
Alexander Twining, President Wool-
sey’s room-mate in College, a promi-
nent civil engineer, who laid out a num-
ber of Connecticut railroads, and most
of whose original lines have been fol-
lowed in the recent elimination of
curves on the New York and New
Haven system.”
The Student Celebration.
The confirmation of the election of
the new President by the sovereign
undergraduate body was swift and em-
phatic. A company of Seniors, led by
J. K. Clark and E. T. Noble, began the
- ceremonies immediately after supper, at
the Senior fence. A megaphone and a
-march round the Campus and through
all the parts of Sheffdom, which took
perhaps fifteen minutes, resulted at the
end of that time in a well ordered force
of from 1,000 to 1,500 students. As
soon as there was enough of a crowd,
which was in about a minute and a half
after starting, a long cheer with Hadley
at the end was added to the attractions
of the megaphone.
The regiment first drew up in solid
formation in front of President Dwight’s
house, but repeated calls brought no
response, and the procession was taken
up along Hillhouse avenue towards the
house of Professor Hadley. As soon
as the asphalt and spacious borders of
the avenue were reached, the whole
regiment, with a whoop and a cheer,
broke into the Omega Lambda Chi
step. As the line turned towards Whit-
ney avenue, the pace was quickened
and then quickened again and in a
‘moment turned into double quick and
then into a panic, as every man in the
line rushed for a point of vantage in
front of the house of the President-
elect. There was some especially fine
cheering in front of the house. It could
be heard in various parts of the city,
a mile or more away, with the name
of the new President on the en‘.
The appearance of Président Hadley
meant another outbreak, this time a
purely spontaneous one which was so
enthusiastic and so prolonged that it
took a great effort to secure silence
enough fora speech. Professor Hadley
spoke very briefly in the following
words:
PROFESSOR HADLEY’S SPEECH.
“Gentlemen—I thank you cordially,
with all my heart, for your prompt
readiness to share the responsibilities of
making Yale’s third century worthy of
her first and second. I say this in all
seriousness, that Yale depends for her
success on the fact that everyone works
together and the head and all the men
must cooperate and be in sympathy.
I am proud and glad to see that I have
your sympathy. I never felt it harder
to know what to say. It is too serious
an occasion for a light speech, too light
for a serious one. But I can assure you
that I thank you, relying on your sup-
port in making Yale greater than ever
before. I say good-night, with thanks
and good wishes to everyone.”
PRESIDENT DWIGHT’S HAPPY RESPONSE.
There was some magnificent cheer-
ing as soon as the speech was over and
then the line re-formed and started to
make another attack on President
Dwight. An indefinite number of vol-
leys of the Greek yell finally brought
the President to the doorstep.. He was
in a very happy mood and pleased
everybody in the big crowd. His
speech was as follows: :
“T judge, gentlemen, from the matter
to which this day is devoted, you have
come to inform me of my election to
a Senior society. I am greatly obliged
to you for the invitation. I am of that
society and it becomes you to go
around to the Junior man. [We have.]
Did he accept? [Yes.] If he did, all
I-have to do, as a Senior, is to make
a speech to him, recommending him to
follow his illustrious. predecessor—in
the coming year.
“Now, gentlemen, I am much obliged
for this most hearty greeting. I am
very soon to be one of the young gradu-
ates of the Class of Ninety-Nine, and
I can tell the younger classes that it
will take a great deal of effort to equal
our past. If they behave themselves as
well as we have, they will have my
approbation as well as yours, and, my
classmates, I have noticed that each
college class about this period of Senior
year settles itself in the opinion that
the college has reached its highest
period of development at this time. In
at the zenith of its glory.
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the following month of October, I
notice that they think it has reached
its lowest period ‘of degeneration.
“I spoke to a Ninety-Seven man ‘in
the October after he graduated, and I
asked him, soberly, if he did not think
the College had. degenerated. He said
he thought it had. Each college class
in October thinks the same. I think,
my classmates of Ninety-Nine, it is now
I ask you
impartially if this is not so. Your
decision will be made next May, next
_ June, in 1900, in 1901, in 1902. It will
be found by the most judicious in each
of the classes that the college is then
at the highest point of its glory. My
classmates of Ninety-Nine and I wait
for October and then we can satisfy
ourselves of the degeneration of this
year. :
“Gentlemen, we are now at the zenith
of our glory; I am the President now
and you are the company who support
me. I wish you all a most delightful
life to the end of your college course
and afterwards. It has taken me fifty
years to go through college. I have
grown happier and I wish everyone in
it may grow happier. I wish you all
happiness, peace, prosperity, all the best
that Yale can give.” ne eee
His speech was constantly interrupted
by laughter and cheers. When it was
over there was a general good night to
President Dwight, and then they
marched back to the Campus.
there was a bonfire of old-fashioned
dimensions and earnestness, Freshmen
being the purveyors therefor. This
meant a lively Campus well into the
night.
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Corporation Meeting.
At the regular May meeting of the
Corporation held Thursday, May 25,
the resignations of the Treasurer of the
University, Mr. W. W. Farnam; Sec-
retary of the Corporation, Mr.
Franklin B..Dexter avy { Dr. Louis S.
DeForest, Clinical Professor of Medi-
cine, were accepted. The Treasurer wil]
remain in office until Dec. 1, 1899, but
the others will end their work at Com-
mencement. =
It was also announced that Professor
Charles E. Beecher, Assistant Professor
of Paleontology, had been appointed
Curator of the Geological Collections,
succeeding the late Professor O. C.
Marsh. The other appointments were:
Dr. George L. Amerman, Yale ’90 to
be Registrar of the Sheffield Scientific
School; Dr. George F. Eaton, Yale ’oa
_to be instructor in Comparative Osteol-
ogy in the Scientific School; Mr. M.
Matsumoto reappointed to be Assistant
in the Psychological Laboratory; Mr.
M. K. Geiser, a student in the Graduate
School, to be Assistant in History in
the College. :
A gift of $5,000 from Mrs. Thomas G.
Bennett, of New Haven, was reported.
It is to be added to the foundation of
the Winchester prize in the Art School.
Another gift for the Art School of
$1,000 was received from Henry F.
English, of New Haven, which will be
added to the fund of the Alice K. Eng-
lish prize in that School. It was voted
to proceed at once with the erection of
the Law School front, thus completing
the building.
At a subsequent meeting of the Cor-
poration shortly after ‘the first meeting,
Professor Arthur Twining Hadley,
Yale ’76, was elected President of the
University. ae
Short sketches of the officers who
resigned at this meeting and of those
affected by the votes of the Corpora-
tion, are reserved for a later issue of the
paper. — :
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Crew at Gales’ Ferry.
The University Crew, substitute and
coaches reached Gales Ferry, Monday
afternoon, June 5, on Col. A. Hart
McKee’s yacht Parthenia, after a trip
of four hours from New Haven, and
went at once to their old quarters at
Capt. Brown’s house. At the time of
going to press the Crew had had one
trial over the course, the time of which
was not given out. The men are all
in good condition, and are rowing with
more power than for a couple of weeks
past. Dr. Gallaudet 1s assisted in
coaching by Messrs. Cowles and Arm-
strong, oe
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