The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-29
THE VIEW YALE president.

Causes Which Led TO Professor Hauiey's
EleetIon-The Votes in the Corpora
Homecoming administrative Changes
Concerning the election of Professor
Arthur 7. Hadley to the Yale presidency
Clarence Deming in last evenings New
York Post remarks:
His election was the result of long
process of evolution. Months ago the
corporation, after excluding men VINO
were too old, divided the possibly avail
able men into typical groups. Among
the so-called business men, or men Oh
affairs" including men in the protes-
sions, two or three were sounded, ana
one very seriously, but they We're max
ing too much money in their profess
sions, with hopes also of ultimate pro-
motion in them, to consider the low
salary of a Yale presidents even with
it's annexed honors. Moreover, they
were sceptical of success in the presi-
dency owing to their lack of special
training. 1t is stated authoritatively
from the corporation that the Rev. Dr.
e. b. Coe of New York city, when asked
semi officially whether he would accept
if elected, declined to stand. The only
other clergyman considered was the
Rev. DR.. Ray Palmer of the prudential
committee of the corporation, ana ne
refused to consider the matter on ac-
count of his age. Thus all hope OF md
ing an eligible clergyman was ABANDON
ed very early.
The search among instructors who are
Yale graduates and outside OF New Ha-
ven also proved fruitless, except SO Tar
as it was represented in the END by AS
sistant Professor George Vincent OF chi
cago university, who himset Favored
Professor Hadley. Thus, by exclusion
the choice finally was reduced TO some
member of the Yale faculty Dean
Wright of the academic faculty IS I'M
derstood to have been President
Dwights choice, and the main contest
in the balloting was between Professor
Wright and Professor Eiadley. Ihere
were a number of informal ballots, with
scattering votes for other men, among
whom are mentioned Professor Perrin
Professor Vincent and Professor Far
nam; but Professor Hadley showed
steady gains up to his election, after
what appears to have been a pretty
sharp contest.
The representation" signed by fifty
professors of the university was ma
terial aid to Professor Hadley 1t was
not presented to the corporation formal
w. but was passed around to them as
| individuals. Some of them disapproVed
it. but it was, nevertheless, a materlai
argument as showing, though in guard
ed terms whom the faculty wanted
Professor Perrin's name is said to nave
| been on the document.
A special influence in the canvass mas
been the bi-centennial financial scheme,
| which has forced exceptional consider
alton of men popular among graduates,
and, in view of their strong preference
| for a Yale man, has restricted some
what consideration of names of men not
graduates of the university. In fact,
the field of available candidates during
the whole canvass has been exceedingly
limited.
After speaking at length Of Professor
Hadlev's career and achievements the
article proceeds:
The problem before the young presl-
dent of Yale. in the period of her uni
yersity transition, is vast one, and the
sorbing interest. Its future lines must
be guessed ra Their than logically inferred
from Professor Hadley's written words
In an article, perhaps more descriptive
and historical than prophetic, on yale
University" printed in April 1894, II
Harper's Magazine, he emphasized the
value of Yale democracy, the historical
character of the institution as college
of the mass rather than of the class
the importance of high standard OF
scholarship and pretty rigid tests OF 1t
even at the cost of numbers, and tins
utility of athletics, if not too intenslhed
as social and democratic factor in the
university life. The stress he has laic
on high scholarship is even more accent
ed by his resignation as dean OF tins
graduate department, some years ago
because of his disagreement with VIVA
he deemed a new policy of letting doWr
the scholastic bars. In an interview
printed early in 1896 he expressed belle
that the evolution of the university ad
ministration would not be in the dlrec
tion of the federated system of colleges
as aft oxford and Cambridge, and tina
the institution would expand alons
threefold lines-frst, in the two lowe
classes, the present plan of recitation
and textbook second, in the two uppe
wears. the elective system, chiefly in lee
lures and, third, in the graduate de
partment, specialized work of the stu
dents in small groups under instructor
who would themselves act under advice
and suggestion of the highest unlverslt.
SPECIALISTS AS to discipline, he favored
fewer inquisitorial functions and the rel
egation of more offenses to the civil au
thorities
While these views outline the new
presidents policy in some directions
they hardly touch the vaster and more
immediate problems of the university
which he must face-the bi-centennia