The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-19

announcement that the transports were
conveyed by goats"
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president H.iDLEY'S I'M UG UR 4 4
President Hadley's inaugural address
made strong impression upon all who
heard it. 1t will make a strong i'm
preston upon all who read it. 1t
shows that the new president of Yale
Is fully alive to the problems which
confront him and his helpers and that
he is prepared to face them with cour-
age, conservatism and confidence The
central problem, he says, is this: How
shall we make our educational system
meet the worlds demands for progress
on the intellectual side without endan-
gering the growth of that which has
proved most valuable on the moral
side? And he asks: What shall it
profit us if we gain the whole world
and lose our own SOUL if we develop
the intellectual and material side Of
spirit of democracy, and loyalty, and
Christianity? He does not believe in
paratory schools, after the fashion of
either the French and German, or Eng
lish systems The former system does
not build up character, while the latter
attaches the loyalty of the college man
rather to his fitting school than to his
university. He does not believe that
should be worshipped, and he
does believe in simple living and genu
inc democracy He points out that
while there cannot be return to Spar
tan simplicity something can be done,
and he says what needs to be said
about expenses and beneficiary aid. He
would have in building new dormitories
and other appliances connected with
the daily life of the students the kind
of intelligent economy which any but
the richest man would use in building
a house for himself. 1--WE should con-
struct them on the standard set by our
homes rather than by our clubs. In
this way we should create a general
level of average expense in the college
ife which would attract rather than
repel the boy who has to make his own
way. We should indeed welcome beau
tiful buildings, given to the university
as memorials of affection; but we
should strive to have them so designed
hat their beauty may be means of
enjoyment to the whole community
While tuition should be RENTED to |
students the fees RENTED |
should be regarded in the light of a
oan, not drawing interest, to be re-
urned whenever the recipient Is able. |
All other aid extended should be given |
ither as a prize for really distin- |
rushed work or as payment for SER
ices rendered. Remuneration rather
han pauperization should be the prin-
iple underlying such aid
While President Hadley does not en-
ourage money worship, he does not en-
outrage the worship Of athletics. In
veil chosen words he puts athletics in
heir proper place He condemns THE
Whole system of regarding athletic
as a sort of advertisement
+ ones prowess, and of valung sue
ess for it's own sake rather than for
he sake of the honor which comes in
chewing it by honorable methods"
md he further says: If we can enter
lto athletics for the love of honor in
he broadcast sense of the word, unmixed
nth the love of gain in any sense, we
lay now and then lose a few students,
ut we shall grow better year after
ear, in all that makes for sound uni
ersity life.
Concerning the problems of universe
Y organization the new president very
Dundly says: THE best possibilities lie
OF in the exercise of authority, but OF
iplomacy. The effort to impose pre-
ranged policy is likely to prove futile
Re cannot insist on an external ap- |
earance of harmony without losing
lore than we gain" He points out
lat the president who would succeed
establishing real harmony must oc-
lpy himself first with providing the
cans to lead men to a mutual under
anding, rather than with predicting
lie results which should follow. He
ould have free and unreserved discus
on of principles. He would establish
In iNersit,t cn1lrnil And he 1unl1ll