The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-08

From the Times-Herald,
In the new era which has Just
dawned for Yale, Arthur T. Eadley,
president elect, has become national
figure. BY the choice of President
Hadley Yale corporation invited change
in the university policy from its very
foundations. Left to act freely in his
administrative policy by theNresigna-
ton of all the associate executive Of
ficials of President Dwight, supported
by an enthusiastic radical majority in
the corporation, and urged for the pres
idency by petition signed by three
fourths of the college faculty, his new
policy and his personal preferences will
have almost full swing.
All over America the question is be-
ing asked: What are President Had
leys views? What is he likely to do
with the elective courses2 With what
requirements for admission? What
with the different departments of the
university, remodeling the schemes
which now runs through each in a con-
fused way? What with university ex-
tension; the compulsory chapel and the
college pastorate questions, and with
the complicated problems of under
graduate and general intercollegiate
athletics?'
With his characteristic candor Presi-
dent elect Hadey has said in answer
to these inquiries: For the present
1 must request to be excused from dis
cussing any branch of my policy. I do
not wish to obscure any of my future
plans or to prevent their full public dis
cussion and announcement, but 1 ask
for little time for conference"
1t is characteristic of Yale's new
president that, although a liberal to the
core, he turns, at the very beginning
of his administration, to advisers. His
closest friends are the most evenly
balanced of Yale's graduate sons, and
among them are numbered justices Of
the supreme bench. governors, sena-
tors and leaders of the educational
world throughout the country. The fact
that President Hadley listens for ad-
vice at this period will deceive no one
who ever met him. He has never been
accused of lacking independence, and
neither an impersOnal nor a Vaclllating
policy will ever mark his administra-
ton. Even before his inauguration
words of no uncertain tone will be
spoken relating to his plans, affecting
the destiny of Yale, and indirectly that
of university education throughout
America.
UNDERGRADUATES MUST WORK.
On certain vital points of Yale policy
President Hadley is, however, on rec
ord. He says that, electives or re-
quired studies. the Yale undergraduate
must work. In speaking of the two
leading departments of Yale, the aca-
demic or college proper and the scien-
tiflc, or Sheffield Scientific School, he
said some time ago: Harvard is strict
about her degrees, and lax about the
previous course of her students. If
man has been idle for four years he
Will lose his degree. Yale, on the other
hand, has no room for iders in her
elective halls. Her facilities are so far
overcrowded that every bad man ell
bows a good man out of Place. She has
no room for the vast number of spec
1ar students-a few of them deserving,
the majority incOmpetent-who clamor
for entrance at every large university.
n man must pass certain examinations
or he cannot enter Yale. He must be
regular in his attendance or he will be
sent home. He must maintain a GER
tain standard of scholarship or he will
SlElnSentN
quirement is the heritage which Yale
has received from President Woolsey,
and the group of men who worked under
him. However much the undergradu-
ate may chafe under it or rebel against
1t, it is this which makes college life
and college reputation what it is"
CASTE AMONG STUDENTS.
According to Professor Hadley's
views the policy of the university ex-
tension will not be popular in the new
Yale. He says: with university ex-
tension Yale has little to do. This is
due not so much to lack of sympathy
with the movement as to lack of time
one the part Of the instructors"
That the present system of secret So
cieties will not be seriously disturbed
by President Hadley is believed. He
has placed himself on record in regard |
to the senior societies as follows: ION |
the whole the senior society choices are |
given with conscientious fairness. |