The San Francisco call., 1899-10-29

presidency of a great university, and each
therefore is something more than a mere
academic discourse. 1t is a manifesto Of
a plan of campaign to be entered upon
at seat of learning and gives promise
of action as well as words of counsel.
The three men are: President Wheeler
of the University of California, who is
entitled to precedence partly because he
is one of US and partly because he made
the best installation address of the three;
President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale
and President William Herbert Perry
Faunce of Brown. There was an agree
ment among them that American univer-
stiles have broken from the traditions
of the past, have entered upon held or
work whose limits are not yet defined
and are graphing with problems not fully
understood. President Faunce said: 1.-The
modern university must be catholic in
its attitude to all realms of knowledge
and must recognize all honest intellectual
endeavor." President Hadley said: The
Yale of the future must count for even
more than the Yale of the past In the
work of the city, State and nation. 1t
must come into closer touch with our
political life and be larger part Of that
life" President Wheeler outlined pol
icy Of action at Berkeley which, If car
ried out will touch and adorn every ac-
tivity of our people from planting pine
trees on the hills of Amador to selling
prunes to the people of the Philippines,
and between those extremes will include
the Improvement of poetry and art in
San Francisco.
Truly the university is about to become
universality-an encyclopedia Of all that
is-and perhaps some day may include
journalism.
The installation address of President
| Wheeler has been so recently published
and reviewed in The Call that further
notice Of it's excellences are not needed.
Some of the things said at Yale and at
Brown, however, have not been widely
published here and therefore are worth
noting. President Hadley said he does
not wish Yale to become university for
rich mems sons or a university where
the student body is divided into two
classes-the one rich and the other poor.
| Furthermore, he declared himself of the
opinion there Is a tendency toward over
doing the beneficiary fund business in our
colleges, and that what the college stu
dents really need is not gratuitous aid,
but more and better opportunities to earn
the wherewithal to meet their college ex-
penses; that all scholarship aid beyond
the tuition fees, whether for undergrad
uates or for graduates, should be dis
liHClly III Tie IId lure VI d prize lOI ItdilJ
distinguished work or n payment for ser
vices rendered. In other words, remun-
Grafton. rather than pauperization, should
be the principle underlying such aid.
Such q statement on the part of the
new president throws a strong side light
on some OF the problems they are strug-
Cling with at Yale. Too many rich mems
sons on one side and too many gratui-
tous students on the other are giving to
Yale a social atmosphere that is more
European than American. The same evil
Is doubtless experienced at Harvard and
the time may come when the young New
Englander who wishes to go to a uni
versity where he can enjoy a true democ-
racy Of companionship will nave to seek
1t somewhere IN the West.
The problems at Brown are different
from those at Yale, but they are just as
hard to solve 1t will be remembered by
those who take an interest in university
affairs that at the time of the controversy
over the attempt to force the resignation
of President Andrews it was stated that
Rockefeller had declared he would have
given Brown University 100000 had il not
been that the doctrines of finance and of
political economy expounded by Andrews
were unpleasing to him. AS Andrews
eventually left the university, 1t has been
frequently dSScIteu lIldI TIE pTeSlQenL
chosen to take his place would be salts
factory to the man of many millions who
has fancy for having universities run
according to his notion. It was therefore
something Of a surprise to a good many
people that in his inaugural address
President Faunce said that any college
that should receive any gift whatsoever
on condition Of making the donors per-
sonal private views the standard of in
r+r ba 0F
able degradation, both of itself and of
the cause of education which it misrepre-
sents.
SO now Rockefeller will not give that
800, 900 to Brown. The University of Chi
cago will have no rival in his affections
and President Harper will have the ex-
elusive privilege of teaching Rockefeller
ology and applying 1t to the whole domain
of human learning.
There IS one point of Faunee's address
which may not have been inspired like a
Delphic oracle, but is certainly just about
as incomprehensible as one. He had
stated that modern university must rec
ognize "all honest intellectual endeavor,"
and 1t would appear therefore that it
ought to recognize woman's endeavor for
from a university point of view a woman
can be both honest and intellectual; but
none the less President Faunce went on
to say: "In New England to introduce
women into what has been for a century
a mems college, with no change in Gus
toms and atmosphere; to allow them to
think that the adoption of masculine ira
dition is essential to emancipation this is
to inf1ict a cruel wrong on young woman
hood"
What is meant by introducing a young
woman to a mems college without a
change of atmosphere IS not clear, nor IS
1t clear how such Introduction would lead
them to the adoption of mems traditions
and inflict a wrong on them. It might be
well for Brown to get an atmosphere less
laden with tobacco smoke, eliminate ira
ditions that would wrong a woman and
give the girls a chance. Even Rockefel-
lers Harperversity does that.
AS the trustees Of the public library of
Oakland excluded from its shelves the
other day a book of conceded literary
merit because 1t was not fitted for circu-
lation in Oakland, they may be interested
in this little bit of a dialogue at a library,
reported in the London Academy:
"Lady-Then you have nothing at all
of Thomas Love Peacocks?
"Assistant-Nothing. madam You see,