The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-22
Monday, June 2, ID0s.
MOTHER YALEs MESSAGE.

MOTHER yALE,s MESSAGE.
 President Hadley at no time ap- pears to better advantage than when he delivers to the graduating classes the annual message which Mother Yale has to impart to her youngest sons who are about to join the great outside brother of the university. It is obviously one thing to deliver "a class room message another thing to deliver the message which occasional meetings of graduates call forth, and still another thing to deliver the mes sage to a number of young men who have reached the first turn in their educational life.
 It Is not difficult to understand the. distinct emotion which moves the president of an advanced school of in- structlon when he comes to part with the graduating classes. There must be no uncertainty in the quality of the message, no doubt as to the road which they are counselled to follow in all of its windngs if they would put to the best use the instruction they have received within the walls of Yale and finally no wavering with regard to the principles of conduct which must be constantly strengthen ed and reinforced in order that the Yale standard may count for more and more in the life of the country. These are conclusions and convictions with which President Hadley thor oughly understands and rightly inter- prets. A native of New Haven, a product of its great educational ma chine and an intelligent student of the problems which beset the country as each generation evolves them, he is dn addition young man from whom Nfle tlilHuSl1SlliS bl lllt nave IlbI ufs parted and whose faith in the funda- mentals of life is undiminished. He has no experimental philosophies to impart, no overwhelming desire to speak to a hreathless country over the heads of his students, no straining for dramatic effect In these respects, as usual the baccalaureate address of President Hadley yesterday was not able and welcome.
 In addressing himself directly to the graduating class President Hadley disclosed a delicate appreciation of the uplifting power of Yale traditions and Yale influences. Whatever you may have learned In this place." said he, will be of little value unless 1t teaches you some consistent attitude towards the great problems of life with which every man must concern himself, whether he will or no. If you 70 forth without some such philos- ophy of life, you go Into the world rudderless and chartless" It is the pride of Yale that in her efforts to stimulate the intellectual aspirations of her students she has constantly in mind the maintenance of those aspl- rations in later life through the ever present recollection of the meaning of Yale character. It Is not a creed that can be given more direct expres- sion than President Hadley gives 1t an this address of yesterday, but the young man who has failed to feel it's controlling power and to adjust him self to 1t accordingly lacks the sensl- tiveness which lies at the bottom of the fullest developed Yale spirit. "Every man of you who Is worth any thing at all must have thought of these matters as intimately concern ing himself" says President Hadley, for not to have thought of them in some connection and considered them from the point of view of personal concern is to admit a state of mental drresponsibility which needs instant attention If the work of life is to be undertaken rightly.
 Says President Hadley: T firmly believe that the selfish pursuit of hap piness menaces alike the efficiency of our individual citizens, the stability of our institutions, and the power of resistance of our country to dangers and caamities; and that the fate of the American peope--nay, the fate of the whole civilized worlds bound up with the possibility of maintaining amid all these difficulties an essen tially Christian philosophy of life. y That is the calm and convincing con- clusion to which he yesterday led the sober thought of the graduating plasses, g. message which will not soon