The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-21
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 NAMES MENTIONED

For the Presidency of Yale University.
 Names of men mentioned for the Yale presidential succession continue to null tiply, and include already those of Pro- fessors Farnam, Ladd, Hadley, Perrin, and Woolsey, the Rev. Ray Palmer of the Yale corporation, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President Harper of Chicago university, President Cyrus Andrew D. White, President Tucker of Dartmouth Thomas Thacher of New York and Judge Taft of the United States court of appeals, The impress sion grows, say various journals of note, that the long clerical succession will be broken in the selection.
 A New Havener writes concerning Presidents Gilman, Harper and North rop, above mentioned: "They have held professorships at Yale and are thor oughly posted and fitted for the duties of the position of president of Yale, both as scholars, public speakers and men of executive ability
 The Hartford Courant remarks: 'The corporation itself consists of the presi- dent, who decides 'equivotes;' the gov ernor and the lieutenant governor of Connecticut, six members elected by the alumni from their own number and ten Congregational clergymen of th's state who are settled over churches. Among these last are such liberal- minded men as Dr. Parker and MT Twichell of this city, Dr. Joseph Ander- son of Waterbury, Dr. J. W. Cooper of New Britain and Dr. T. T. Munger of New Haven. While the clergy hold the control should they vote all together, still, in view of the composition of the corporation, it is absurd to assume that such men will be controlled by narrow and seetarian motives.
 President Dwight's resignation, re- gretted by all, has precipitated upon these eighteen men the responsibility of choosing the next president of Yale.
 From now until the action is taken
 the suggestion of names will be in order. Among those already heard are
 Andrew D. White of 53 who has al ready done splendid work in building up one university, Cornell the Rev. J. H. Twichell of this city, of 6o, who's ?
 leaving Hartford we are not ready to consider possible: Judge Baldwin of '61, already mentioned, who is an honored
 member of the Connecticut supreme court and one of the foremost graduates of the university: and Thomas Thacher of Il, of New York, one of the leading lawyers and citizens of that city, presi- dent of the Yale organization there, held in the highest esteem by all who know him for the all-round man he is,
 and regarded kindly by every Yale man for the name of his father, the dear old professor, that ne bears. These are men in other walks of life, though
 Messrs Baldwin and Thacher are con.- nected with the law department of the
 university. But in the active faculty
 are number of promising possibilities. Professor Bernadotte Perrin of 69 is a 1 finished scholar and cultivated gentle
 man, with the power of organization | and ample force of character; Professor Theodore & Woolsey of '72 son of the former and beloved president of the col lege, is closely identified with the Yale of to-day and is widely known and re- spected; Professor Henry w. Farnam
 of "A, son of one of Yale's liberal bene- factors, is a man of executive ability and devotes his time and talent and means to the interests of Yale: and, last and youngest, though already more | than twenty years out of college, is Professor Arthur T. Hadley, with love | of and enthusiasm for Yale born in | him, and himself a marked man--one | of the brainiest of all the sons of Yale ] in the country.
 These are some of the men who may | be considered possible for the place. 1 They are all graduates of the univer- sity. Others will no doubt be suggester. l The whole question of qualification for 1 the office as it now is must be consider l ed. Times have changed. A crisis in | the life of Yale has arrived"