The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
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BY Guy T. viskniskki.

BY Guy T. Viskniskki.
Arthur Twining Hadley is not with
out honor in his own city. Neither
did he have to leave the place of his
birth to achieve success, as is the case
with many successful men. His career
from school boy to president of Yale
University has had New Haven,
Conn, for its entire setting.
The rise of President Hadley to
educational leadership is the fruit of
an ambition that he nourished, first
rather hazily and later with definite
clearness, from his youth up.
1t was a natural ambition with him.
He was born to the academic purple.
His father, James Hadley, was pro-
fessor of chemistry at the now de-
funct Fairfield Medical College, in
New York state, and later professor
of Greek at Yale from 1851 to 1872.
His grandfather, also James Hadley
by name, was a professor at Yale and
author of many standard American
text books. One uncle, George Had
ley, was a professor in the Buffalo
Medical College; another uncle, Hen
ry H. Hadley, held the chair of He
brew in the Union Theological Semi
nary, and on his mothers side a third
uncle. Alexander TYining, was a
steward of Yale as well as a railroad
engineer. Moreover, Arthur Hadley
was born in a university town, and so,
unconsciously influenced by blood ana
environment, he decided while still
schoolboy to be the third of his
family in direct line to occupy
PROFESSIONAL chair in some educational
institution. The graybears of New
Haven are fond of telling how. when
he was asked by them what he was
going to be when he grew up, art
Hadley would answer:
From Graduate to Professor,
"A professor, and a famous man."
Twenty-Five years later, in 1886, he
was full-hedged professor in Yale,
. where he had graduated ten years be-
fore. In the interim he had prepared
for the position by equipping himself
in the Specialties of his forebears, and
not infrequently, in sporting parlance,
going them one better. His father had
been professor of chemistry. When
Arthur was a school boy still several
years removed from his teens, chemis-
try was as familiar to him as the null
tiplication tables; he could reel off and
work out the various formulate with
the ease of an expert chemist. His ia
Their and Uncle Henry were linguists.
Arthur led the ancient and modern
language classes at Yale, and grad
uating at the head of his class, took,
among other honors, the Winthrop
prize for students most thoroughly
acquainted with Greek and Latin
poets" and the Woolsey scholarship,
founded by a roommate of Alexander
Twining, uncle on his mothers side.
This uncle laid out many of Connec-
ticuts railroads; his original lines
We're followed when the New York,
New Haven and Hartford several
years ago began the elimination of
curves on its system. The nephew,
during the four years that he was tu-
tor at his alma mater, took up the study
of railroad questions to such an extent
that he was shortly appointed univer-
S1ty lecturer on railroad administra-
ton, and the public began to hear of
him and from him for the first time
as an expert on all things relating to
railroads, both in their civic and COM
mercial relations. Alexander Twining
was known to but few outside the
state Of Connecticut.
As University Lecturer.
During the three years that he was
university lecturer, which immediately
preceded his election to the profess
sorship of political economy in 1885,
and the following years, up to 1898,
his name and influence grew. He was
the only member of the Yale faculty.
President Dwight excepted, whose
name was even fairly well-knoWn
among the 10000 odd Yale graduates
and beyond university circles. His
numerous magazine articles on rail-
roads and transportation, and his APP
pointment as Commissioner of Labor
and Statistics for Connecticut by Re-
publican Governor, despite the fact
that Hadley was known to have sup
ported Democratic President, had
made him so.
Thus matters stood when in the
early nineties Prof. Hadley's boy
hood ambition took definite shape.
PRESIDENT Dwight had announced that
ne would positively resign the presi-
dency when he was seventy years of
age i'm 1898. Prof. Hadley was
controlled by a natural desire he
wanted to be Dwight's successor.
With that end in view he began
putting Hadley in the air" as one of
ms most intimate friends recently eX-
pressed himself. Through articles
published in prominent magazines and
IN interviews in metropolitan news
papers, he declared his position on
educational matters in general, and
the problems that confronted Yale
IN particular. At that time Yale did
not own a typewriter. or lease sin
gle telephone. President Dwight had
no amanuensis; he would sit up late
INTO the night addressing circulars to
alumni far and near: the university
was stronghold of conservatism.
Inc liberal element among the alumni
ana the corporation read Prof. Had
Iey's articles, put their stamp Of APP
prevail upon them, and found in him
champion.
Opposed for President.
There swiftly devolved upon the
corporation the duty of selecting
DWlght's successor President Dwight
ana his following entered upon the
ASK hrmly opposed TO Hadley, whose
name had been mentioned IN various
quarters. They wanted a conservative,
or az least a man not SO pronOuncedly
liberal as Hadley. There was also
another element against him, made up