The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-28
TWO SIDES IN
MODERN LIFE
President Hadley Lays Down
Some New Principles in
Baccalaureate Sermon

New Haven, Conn.,, June 28.-In the
baccaluerate address before the stu
dents of Yale university Sunday,
President Hadley emphazied the value
of faith in ones fellowmen.
He said in part:
I'm order to accomplish anything
great, man must have two sides to
his goodness, personal side and a
social side. He must be upright him.
self, and he must believe in the good
intentions and possibilities of others
about him.
1--WE recognize the first of these
things. We know that the leader
must have principles OF his own; that
he must stand for something definite,
which he is prepared to maintain
through evil report and good report.
We do not often recognize the Sec
end of these things in an equal de-
gree. We do not appreciate how
necessary it is for a man to believe
in those about him just as far as he
can and co-operate~With them just as
fully as he can. Yet this also is
condition of leadership. No matter
how high the ideals for which we
stand, we cannot expect others to fol-
low us unless we have confidence in
them. We cannot expect devotion if
we return it with distrust. We can
not expect cooperation unless we are
prepared to give freely Of our con-
"The man who lacks faith in other
men loses his best chances to work,
and gradually undermines his own
power and his own character. = =
If man singled out some occurrence
of my life, came to me with with
distorted account of it. and then said
that it was typical of my whole career
and conduct, l should order him to
leave the house; and SO would you
under similar circumstances. If we
were equally ready to do the same
thing in behal fof our friends when
charges or insinuations are made be-
hind their backs, modern society
would be healthier and more efficient
than it is at present ***. BY the
ready acceptance of these reports we
harm ourselves no less than our
friends. We do not realize to what
extent others judge us by our beliefs.
But we are in fact judged in that
way; and it is right that we should
be judged in that way. The man who
is cynical, whether about women or
business, or politics, is assumed and
In nineteen cases out of twenty, with
full justice-to be immoral in his
relations to women or business or
politics.
"The man who has faith in the
integrity of others in the face of ire
sponsible accusations is assumed
and in nineteen cases out of twenty
justly assumed-to have the conf
dence in others goodness because he
is a good man himself. This is why
people will follow the optimist even
though he is sometimes wrong and
shun the pessimist even though he is
sometimes right.
"McClelland knew what to avoid
better than Lincoln or Grant, but it
was men of the type of Lincoln or
Grant who brought a united action
out of the civil war. The prophets
preceded Jesus crititized the evils of
their day as unsparingly as did Jesus
himself, and at far greater length.
The thing that he had and that they
had not was the belief in the essential
goodness of humanity which would
respond positively to the gospel of
self-sacrifice. He that would follow
in the foot steps of the Master must
be prepared, not simply to stand up
right himself, but to have faith that
others will stand by him."