New-York tribune., 1907-01-19
DIR. HADEY ON ELECTIVES
SHpersede Football as Educational
Topic, He Tells Yale Cub


President Hadley OF Yale University. speaking at
the annual dinner of the Yale Club at .he club
mouse In 44th street last evening" said that foot
DaAl was no longer paramount topic Of discussion
An coneglate circles. In Dr. Hadey's opinion.
or the most important educational problems to-day
was the question Of elective studies in college
university courses. He favored the tendency
toward elective courses but said the danger lay
tehdency 10 make the college course in
telIectual dissipation.
Sheffield Scientific School at Yale was taken as
a model by DR.. Hadley of the tendency toward
electives Dr. Hadley said. in part:
Most og 1g the year has been peaceful 9ne
have died out of itself. We are no longer asked
for good evil connected with American unversi2
iaeE 10 rms & is fortunate for there has been no
Inc important practical question that we always
TO give enough freedom Of election to meet the
needs NEEDS ,; and demands OF the day without at the
degenerate into intellectual dissipation. There
be Rhe eay 0y can MhSH be- me on GdR
by hard work through heads of departments and
the appointment Of an adequate number OF trained
what has gad raF 20 e been % TO gSf gG0d % 6 re OF
tOn. One tells me that his boy has got more
year to-day than he did during the whole Of his
In spite of the personal reflection. am glad to
In no part OF the university is change more
NJ aaigh are m IS provnF aSmrabe The Work of
the library itself under Mr.. schwab's careful
We hope next summer TO begin seriously the
work OF transferring the library into Its quar-
ters. The corporation has most wisely voted
university funds. whereby at the time Of moving
into the new building we may really bring the cata-
logue into adequate shape. and make the whole IL
hrary usable For fifteen years we have been badly
in arrears in this respect and there is no one thing
so much for ali the departments put together.
she gives her graduates There is hardly a single
event in the history Of the institution for the cur
than the recent reports from the Chinese Empire
from which il appeared that in the leading civil
vice examination Of the Kingdom. with candidates
educated IN the universities OF America of Europe
and of japan, the one Yale candidate did far and
our tests of intellectual work in the life Of the
United States are not organiZed In the form OF
ts5gible degrees OF social advancement as IL did
sharp. the demand for intellectual achievement
Just az keen and the results s IN the ne Sng S4eBaT run 4ae }as
men undergradgate and graduate general students @
and mGTg tests Of AmsT9a0 s tn s6 e there
are many things which / wish we could do better.
But looking over the whole field. and making
eoGaeeents eoEweaEs A. think that there never was
tm en taaR tS Tp BOTH Sf by %
students where the promise OF substantial re-
suits was SO great.
ton present at the dinner over which William NJ.
Barnum, president of the Yale Club presided as
toastmaster The other speakers were the Rev.
Dr. William r. Richards. pastor of the Brick
Church. in Manhattan. and William p. Clyde. jr.
Of the class OF '0l.
DR.. Richards. who IS = graduate of the class or
20 and the most re emily elected member Of the
Yale Corporation spoke Of Yale College as II was
twenty-five years ago compared with the rlcn ana
powerful corporation OF to-day.
He said the boys of the present generation had
many comforts and advantages which were denied
the college boys of his day. and that he hoped
the present generation would not fail to take ad-
vantage OF the great opportunities that were open
10 them He declared he did not believe that the
university had yet reached fits limit OF growth but
that IL would continue grow and prosper
Mr. Clyde made sem-humorous speech IN
which he entertained his hearers with accounts ol
college pranks performed by the up-'o-da'e 'o'-
lege student Then he became serious ana spo51S p1S
Of college honor and how stricily II wan "P''
bv every student os the university ,-,...o
of modern football, and gave pIlei IesuIlSS S @ UI
the new rules and the prospects they openeu. W
for the growth and popularity OF the greatest oi
college sports" ~, l,., o,.o
Among the guests were Julian W. Curtiss; OtIo
T Bannard. Thomas Fletcher. Paysoh MertlIl'
George A. Adee and James r. Sheffield