New-York tribune., 1909-06-28
DR.. HADLEY'S MESSAGE
BELIEF IN FELLOW MEN.
Leaders 7cith Faith Won GiUH Var,
He Tells YGle Graduates.

New Haven. June 27.-President Arthur T. Hadley
Of Yale delivered his annual baccalaureate address
to-day in Woolsey Hall the members of the
graduating class from all departments of the uni
versity. Faith in Man" the subject of DR..
Hadley's address. He argued that this quality was
absolutely essential to success in life and one OF
his chief Illustrations taken from the careers OF
the generals of the Civil War. DR.. Hadey said:
In the early years of the Civil War the Army. OF
ability in positions of high command Not one Of
IN 69ese men was IN place Of leadership at tne end
Thomas, though not all Western men, all had Their
the Army of the Potomac What was the reason
for this extraordinary state of things? The main
Judge, was that the officers Of the Army of the
other and cooperating with each other to the eX-
tent that prevailed in the West. . e.
They of ability: they We're anxious for
least equally anxious that other officers should not
be promoted ahead of themselves. They were ready
to listen to SUGGESTIONS of evil and intrigue Even
tntrisues in their own behalf they were no strGrg
enough to prevent these suspicious from nterIerlhg
clCcal a II was not "a " hsteG @ the careers
of the bold and the cautious. of the guilty ana the
These evils of military intrigue were not by any
means wholly absent from the Western armies, ~
Three at least of the four generals whom haEe ak
named suffered severely from such intrigues, me ne
habit of backbting with the tongue or takins, up
reproaches against ones neighbor Is not conhned 70
any section of the country TO specihc NERD
ians Of longitude But the whole the Western
6e wof in haHG GG' han d the
When it time TO fight they fought When u
Il seemed uncertain whether their colleagues were
helping them or hinderng them [, theE s1s gave was
certain largeness of mind in men ike GranI tt an
the enemy instead of criticsing even replying 20
the criticisms Of their friends AND THIS IN Nam, He
ike that Of McCeIian or power of personal leader
ship like that Of Hooker
The speaker emphasized the point that honorable
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when men became suspicious of their fellows He
continued:
The only way stop this evil IS TO resist IT at
the very outset, We must avoid the habit Of lister
self friend makes them he Is no friend- them
Il is not really moral The more plausibly the
gestions are put, the fatally do they tend 10
CbsfT Wheh ehe akss life Worth living BY dwell
ing upon intimat atoms of this kind we do an nJustoe
We do injustice to our neighbors because ti nine
Even when they are not false IN detal , Tney ar az
false in their underlying assumptions. Inc men men
who are going out from our schools and colleges
and workshops predomnantly good, not pre-
The man Who is cynical whether about women
business politics, is assumed-and IN nine. t,
IMMORAL in his relations to women or business
politics. The who has faith IN the INTEGRITY
is assumed-and in nineteen cases out Of twenty
Justly assumed-to have the confidence IN otners
oT%S s %hy people Will follow the optils thoush
he is sometimes wrong. and shun the pessi1ll7'
though he is sometimes right
The greatest danger from dstrust Of ones fel-
lows. according 70 President Hadey, was the dan
ger TO society Readiness believe evil was a
bar 10 the positive action OF who would make
society better Not the critical. but the syrnpa-
thetic type OF man the that achieved
great things
Addressing himself directly 10 the graduates Dr
Hadley told them II theirs to disprove the
charge that the scientific and scholarly class
were deficient sympathy. He concluded:
II IS for you TO prove your right take the lead
the political and social and spiritual development
Of the country, we'll in its mechanical and
material development. To do this YOU must take
hold OF these social problems with the same post
tive faith with which fathers took hold Of the
problems Of applied science. We already know
that man learns TO love God by loving his fel
low men. Equally shall find II that
learns 70 believe in God by believing in his
fellow