The times., 1899-10-09
INAUGURATION At Yale
The Uniyersity's New President
Soon TO Be Installed.
Elaborate Preparations for Induct-
ing Arthur Tvyining HadIey Into
tendance-Preparing for a Spectac-
uinr. Parade, Dinners and Banquets

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct S.-Arthur
Twining Hadley the newly elected presi-
dent of the Yale University, will be in
augurated on October is. Preparations for
the event have been made on an exten-
siye and elaborate scale, and the occa-
sion will be a notable one in Ya,e's his
tory. Notable, too, will be the occasion
on account of the fame of many of those
who will be present. Among others will
be Yale's three representatives in the
United States Supreme Court, Justices
Harlan Brewer, and Brown. United Sites
Attorney General Griggs, fo-mer Governor
of New Jersey, will be there, as viii also
the Governor of Connecticut and his staff.
In addition there will be men distinguish
ed in all ranks of life from all parts of
the country.
The Inauguration of President Hadley
will mark new era in the history of the
university. For the two centuries of its
existence every president of Yale has bsen
a clergyman. President HadIey will be
the first layman to hold the post. In some
of the details of the inauguration
traditions of the past will also be departed
from. President Hadley's inaugu. ation
address will be in English instead of in
Latin. Instead of there being an address
OF welcome by an undergraduate 1t will be
delivered by one of the faculty Prof.
George B. Fisher, dean of the divinity
school, has been selected for the
honor, and in his address he viii represent
the faculty, the alumni, and the under
graduates.
The formal exercises will begin at 3
p. m, on October Is, in Battea Chapel.
The retiring president Timothy Dwight,
will offer prayer, and then will come the
new presidents Inauguration. Prof. Fish
er's address will come next Preceding
these formal exercises in Battell Chapel,
a procession, including guests and college
men, viii, in accordance with the ancient
custom, march around the campus. Fol-
lowing the exercises in Battell Chapel
there will be reception to the new presi-
dent in the Yale Art School.
In the evening there viii be a spectacu-
lar parade. Some $500 Yale men, with
flaring torches, will march through the
New Haven streets. The marshal will be
Malcolm Lee Mcbride, the big captain of
the Yale football eleven, and among his
assistant marshals will be Fred Allen,
Captain Oh TIE tdTSlIy crew. .NudlicS II .
Dudley, Porter T. Hall, and Frank G.
Brown That the town will resound with
the college yell" goes without saying
and New Haven citizens will not try to
sleep
The big procession of torchlighters will
make the rounds of the houses where dis
tinguished guests are staying, or are being
entertained at dinners, and brilliant in
formal addresses are expected from them
in response.
There will be numerous dinners and
banquets. The most elaborate thus far
announced will be the banquet given by
the University Club. About one hundred
guests are expected, and among the speak
ers will be Anson Phelps Stokes. jr., sec
retary of the Yale Corporation; DIR. Ed
ward Bliss Reed, and Frank s. Butter
worth.
Arthur Twining Hadley was elected
president on May % of this year. 1t is ex-
pected that his administration will mark
a new era in Yale's history, and that its
educational policy will be altered and i'm
proved President THadley was professor
in the department OF political science.
While the progressive element looks to
him as its leader, he is also liked and
trusted by the conservative while the stu
dents themselves admire him immensely.
A certain ready cleverness of speech has
helped him, as was shown, for example,
in the few words that he addressed to the
crowd of students who marched to his
house on the evening following his cleo
tion. He thanked them cordially. but in
the fewest possible words, saying: This
is too serious an occasion for q light
speech and too light for a serious one.
He was born in New Haven on April %,
1856 His father was Prof. James B. Had
ley, of Yale, and was famous for his at
tainments in the Greek language. The
tastes of the son, however, developed along
the line of the busy present instead of the
dead past. He was graduated with high
honors in 1876, and then devoted himself to
the study of political science. He was ap-
pointed to tutorship, and in 1883 became
university lecturer on railroad administra-
ton. He was made professor OF political
science in 1886, and became widely famous
as progressive and profound thinker. His
work on Railway Transportation; Its His
tory and Laws is looked upon as an ac-
knowledged authority in Europe, as well as
this country In consequence of his high
reputation he was made Comm ib5ioner OF
Labor for the State of Connecticut from
1885 to 1887 President Hadley was mar
ried in 1891 10 the daughter of former Gov
ernor Morris, of Connecticut
He has a looking, keeniy -resolute
face, strong nose firm mouth, and WE'LL
shaped head. He wears both mustache
and beard. He is d man of high strung
nervous temperament. He rarely begins a
lecture without an apparently hesitatins
embarrassment. That, however, is only an
unconscious mannerism, and in a few mo-
ments he is composed and cool and in the
/ full current of his subject His mind Is
both logical and analytical and his success.
I is mainly due 10 his ability to present his
I subjects with absolute clearness after see-
4 ing them clearly in his own mind.
! Among the distinguished visitors whC
will be present at the inauguration o.
President Hadley as president of Yale Uni
versity on October IS is the Rev. Thoma.
J. Conaty. rector of the Catholic, Univer.
sity at Washington.