TALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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PITTSBURG DINNER.
President Hadley Speaks-— Policy and
Plans of the University.
The Yale alumni of Pittsburg held
their annual dinner at the Pittsburg
Club, Friday evening, Nov. 3, at which
‘here was an attendance of about seventy-
five members and guests. Albert H.
Childs, ’61, was toastmaster and these
toasts were responded to:
Our University ....... .... Pres. Hadley
“Mother of Arts and Eloquence.”
—Multon
New: Yalez. eee F. C. Perkins, ’94
“Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be.”
—Browning
Yale’s Influence,
Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, 763
“If there be good in that I wrought,
Thy hand compelled it * * *
Where I have failed to meet thy thought,
I know, through thee, the blame is
mine.”
—Kipling
Our Men of Affairs....J. T. Brooks, ’63
“So much one man can do
That does both act and know.”
—Andrew Marvel
Yale from the Outside.E. W. Smith, ’78
“Cast one longing, lingering look behind.”
—Gray
Informal speeches were also made by
R. H. Fitzhugh, 63, and J. C. Green-
way, 95 S., the former of whom served
in the Philippines and the latter in-
Cuba.
During his stay in Pittsburg President
Hadley addressed the students of the
Shadyside Academy and of the Pitts-
burg High School, and made a powerful
address at the fourth anniversary cele-
bration of the founding of the Carnegie
Institute, on “Modern Changes in Edu-
cational Ideals.”
Responding to the toast “Our Uni-
versity,’ at the Pittsburg dinner, Presi-
dent Hadley said:
President Hadley’s Address.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Yale Alumni Association :—I am sure no
man could wish for a better first gather-
ing to address as President than this be-
fore me. JI have enjoyed all my visit
to Pittsburg, but I need not say that I
have enjoyed this evening far more than
all the rest of it put together. You spoke
of the first passage which was given to
you, Mr. Chairman, by my father, in
Greek, and of your impression as to what
you did not know about Greek. I notice
on the program the sentiment, “Mother
of Arts and Eloquence,” and I am im-
pressed, as I think over that sentiment,
with the large number of things that I
do not know about eloquence. But I
will get through the preliminaries as
quickly as possible and tell you what,
[ have no doubt, you want to hear—the
things that are going on at Yale now;
what we have done in the past; what we
are trying to do in the present, and what
we have before us, as part of our im-
portant problems in the immediate
future.
THE NEW SECRETARY.
In the first place, in the immediate
past we have filled the offices of Secre-
tary and Treasurer. They were hard
places to fill. You know, many of you,—
all of us know, I think,—what Mr. Dex-
ter has been to the College in the past,
and many of us know what Mr. Farnam
has been to the College in the years that
have just gone by. Now I shall not say
much of our Secretary, as his name is
well known. Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes
Is a representative of young Yale, even
younger Yale, even newer Yale, than
the man who is chosen to respond to that
toast. He is a wide-awake man, and I
hope in future years the Pittsburg
Alumni Association will have the chance
of making his acquaintance.
THE NEW TREASURER.
The filling of the Treasurership is
new. It was, of course, a very difficult
problem to find a man to take the place.
It is not easy to find a man who can
manage a property of from four to five
million dollars of invested funds, not to
speak of as much more of buildings
and grounds, for a salary of five thou-
sand dollars a year, and I was glad to
find, in connection with the discussion
as to the place, how disinterested the
loyalty of Yale men was and how glad
they were to think of sacrificing pect-
niary prospects for the sake of an oppor-
tunity to serve the College and help
in her development. JI am glad to say
that we have a first rate man, a man
who has been known to many of you—
President of the Southern New England
Telephone Company, a successful cor-
poration; an excellent business man; a.
man who has not only a knowledge of
investing money, but, what in these
days has come to be of almost equal im-
portance, a knowledge of spending
money; a man who has not only a
knowledge of business, but a knowledge
of building, for at present our buildings
are an example of architectural styles
of somewhat chaotic character.
AN IMPORTANT ATHLETIC MOVE.
I am also glad to announce that we
shall, in the immediate future, almost
certainly be able to have filled a posi-
tion which in the past has remained un-
filled, and sometimes to the detriment of
Yale—the place of a responsible super-
visor of our athletic interests. Now,
I am not talking about recent football
games. This is a good time, perhaps,
to recall that passage in one of Walter
Besant’s novels—I think it is “All Sorts
and Conditions of Men,” where he says
of his hero that he was a gentleman; he
liked to play games as well as other
people did; he didn’t want to play games
better than other people did; that would
have shown that he was not a gentleman.
(Laughter and applause.) This is a
good quotation to have in use just at the
present time.
We have had in the immediate past
at Yale a lack, which has been felt more
and more as the University grew larger
and larger, of any continuous ordering
of the athletic arrangements. Now I
am not speaking of mere faculty super-
vision, for most of what has been known
by the name of faculty supervision would
have been better left undone in various
colleges; but we have no authority that
can bring one year’s experience to the
service of the next.
Take this one thing alone. The Yale
Field, where most of our athletic sports
are conducted, is the property of a cor-
poration whose directors are graduates
of Yale; still, it is an outside corpora-
tion. The capital account is handled by
the Directors of the Yale Field: the in-
come and expenses account is handled by
student managers, who, for the most part,
it is true, have
ability, but who, nevertheless, are elected
for the one year, and go out at the end
of the year. Now, what would you think
of any business corporation if the capi-
tal account were handled by one set of
men and the income and expense account
were handled by a totally different set
of men, each running for themselves?
Negotiations are under way, which I
am confident will prove successful, in
bringing the Yale Field into such control
that our capital account and income ac-
count will be under the same hands, and
by thus keeping the money interest to-
gether, we shall have some central au-
thority, which will be able, not only to
manage the expenditures wisely, but to
give us the means of deciding important
questions, as to what teams may fairly
bear the name of Yale and what men
may fairly play on those teams, deciding
them not as either students or Faculty
would, but deciding them in the light of
permanent experience, year after year.
So much for the offices we have filled
and are hoping to fill.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Now with regard to the extension of
the University in the matter of buildings.
You are aware, most of you, that a large
part of the program for 1901, contem-
plates the construction of certain build-
ings. If some of our friends here in
Pittsburg keep putting the prices of iron
up, we can hardly construct those build-
ings before 1901, but we still hope to,
and shall rely greatly on the Yale
Alumni Association of Pittsburg to pre-
vent Pittsburg people from taking out-
side contracts that would interfere with
the construction of those buildings
within the proper time. Last Summer,
when I first became intimately ac-
quainted with the matter, things stood
in this shape: Some subscriptions had
been made in a few quarters to a bi-
centennial fund, to see what we were
been men of eminent ©
going to be able to do, and we found
that with comparatively little effort, four
hundred thousand dollars was sub-
scribed. On that basis, we went ahead
to see what ground we could purchase.
They had done that before I came into
office, and they found that the most
available ground to purchase was the
block, or a large part of the block,
just west of College Street, between
Wall and Grove. Yale already owns a
large part of the block just south of that.
That is, the lot immediately north of
Durfee, about nine-tenths of it. More
than one-half of the block west of Col-
lege Street was purchased last June for
a site for a bi-centennial building for an
auditorium and a dining hall. The mat-
ter has been put in the hands of several
architects for competition.
AUDITORIUM AND DINING HALL.
The competitive plans have been sub-
mitted, but the choice has not been made.
Before the end of the month we shall
have decided on a plan for a group of
buildings to be put on the second lot
north of the Campus, between the Aca-
demical and Scientific departments. In
all the designs, practically, there will be
some sort of memorial building on the
corner of College and Grove; that is,
opposite the Scientific School, and there
will be one large building on College
Street; and, if we have the money, as
I have no doubt we shall, another on
Grove Street.
will be an auditorium, and another a
dining hall. How much we need both
an auditorium and a dining hall, every.
alumnus who has been to Yale in re-
cent years can testify. The chapel is
not big enough to contain all the alumni
for speeches, nor is Alumni Hall big
enough to contain all the alumni for
eating, and these buildings will be of
very great use during the year.
It is a very great want of Yale right
through the year, that in a University
of over 2,500 students, we have no build-
ing that holds much more than half that
number.
AN HARMONIOUS BUILDING PLAN.
Now we need, in the first place, an
auditorium, and we are going to have
an auditorium; and if in addition to an
auditorium we get the money for a din-
ing hall, we are going to have a dining
hall, too. More than that, we are ar-
ranging in this competition not merely
to get plans for those buildings, but also
to get some plan for all the buildings of
the University, by which, instead of each
building being an inharmonious thing -
without relation to the others, we can
have some plan of building development
that shall carry us on further. These
then, are our plans in the way of build-
ing—those that are immediately before
us. But, besides this, or especially to
connect this with the bi-centennial, we
have the land and we have a crying
need for more lecture halls. We are
scandalously unprovided with those, as
well as with some dormitories. I hope
it will be possible for more students
to live in the college buildings, for in
that way only do they get the best of
college life.
PLANS OF ADMINISTRATION.
But our building plans are not the only
plans we have before us. There are
plans of internal administration.
a University Council of representatives
from the different departments, which
shall discuss questions that affect more
than one department, and enable the
Law course and the Medical course and
the Academical course and the Scientific
course, and the other courses to get into
organic relations with each other. At
present each has arranged its course
without relation to the others. If we
have a means of comparing things side
by side, we can all work together on a
better basis and we can tttilize our
power a great deal better.
THE ELECTIVE . SYSTEM.
Then, within the College itself,—
I speak of the Academic Department;
the Scientific Department is arranged in
a better way,—we have had _ what
has been called an elective system. Now,
the word elective is all right enough,
but the word system does not apply to it
at all. It has been arranged in this way:
Fach department thought that it ought
to have all the time it wanted for its
One of these buildings
it the:
~ first place, we have already established
_teaching, and whatever was left could
be taken up by the other departments.
It is very much the way they arrange
the River and Harbor Bills in Congress,
where each member thinks he ought to
have all that he wants and whatever
is left over the others can have. Our
elective system. has been very much like
the River and Harbor Bill. The Classi-
cal Department wanted a great deal:
the Psychological Department wanted
a great deal; the Political Department
wanted a great deal, and so on; and
finally, they all agreed, by a sort of
process of log rolling; and having seen
about what sort of measure could com-
mand the necessary votes to carry it
through, they have carried it through
if they could. :
We must discuss what methods and
what courses of study will give the vari-
ous students a means of meeting their
several wants and their several needs,
and arrange the courses, not on the
basis of compromise between conflicting
claims, but reconciliation of conflicting
views, which is quite another thing, and
in order to do that, we must get into
connection with the schools.
A. reformation of this kind has
to be.a slow matter, as any busi-
ness dealings are slow matters, but with
that spirit that we have at Yale, in the
Faculty and in the alumni—and I
cannot possibly acknowledge, as I should
like to, the devoted readiness to do
everything that they are called for which
has been manifested from all quarters
—with the spirit that we have in
the students and in the Faculty and in
the alumni, and in the outside friends of
the institution, I believe that a little
patience and a great deal of persistence
will see Yale in her rightful place, not
only at the head of some departments of
education, as she is at present, but in
leadership in an organized body, wherein
all educational institutions shall have
part, and in whose operations the whole
world shall be the field.
een GAB Qe
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The Pot-Pourri for the year 1899-1900
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Mills, 1900, Chicago, Ill., and James
Henry Niedecken, 1900, Milwaukee, Wis.
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