The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-23
DR.. HAOlEY TELLS
ESSEX GRADS Of
COLLEGES BANE
President of Yale Deplores the
Number of incompetent
instructors.
SPEAKS AT ALUMNI
DINNER In EAST ORANGE
Gives Views as to How Impor=
tant University Problem
Can Be Solved.

The problem for the American
universities of the next generation
Is not primarily a problem of or
ganization, important as organiza-
ton must be. 1t is primarily a
problem of maintaining and elevat-
Ing the character of the men vino
so into university teaching as a
career"
This declaration was made by Presi-
dent Arthur ID. Hadley, of Yale Uni
v~ersity, at the annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni Association of Essex
county in the Woman's Club of East
Orange.
Problems confronting university heads
today in the matter of providing proper
educational facilities and opportunities
for the vast growing army of thought
ful earnest students were discussed
by DR.. Hadley in his notable speech.
The distinguished guest complained
of the salaries paid TO educators and
also referred to the various conceptions
of education held by different institu-
TONS.
In addition to his address there were
serious talks by other speakers and a
spontaneous enthusiasm among the
grads for their alma mater. Many
old friendships. of the campus and class
room We're renewed at the board, and
Colonel Austen Colgate proved a happy
POSTMASTER.
The upper ballroom of the clubhouse
was comfortably filed with a large
number of prominent men who sang
the songs of old Yale and pledged
again their friendships and wished
each other well. There was not a dull
moment during the evening. and en-
livened by a quartet of graduates the
assemblage joined in the class and
traditional songs of Yale with a warm
spirit.
Dr. Haalcy on s"The Univcrsity.-
President Hadley, responding to the
toast 1.-THE University said in part:
What is the sort of wisdom tina a
university should teach and hat her
students should learn? What are the
things which should make the public
respect her and the graduates love her?
T these questions there are two dis
tinct W One group of people
on the whole, the more numerous group
holds that the chief use of a univer-
sity is to teach men the theory of their
several callings. They conceive the
university as a place for training the
best lawyers and physicians, the best
engineers and Psychologists of the flu
ture. They believe that history and
biology, mathematics and chemistry.
viii be most effectively pursued by
keeping the needs of the several call
ings in view. They regard the uni
versity as a group of professional
schools, whose existence is to be justi-
fed by its effect on the earning power
of the nation. This is the German con-
ception.
Opposed to this we nave the English
conception. which associates the uni
vorsity from practical life and makes
her the handmaid of culture. a uni
vcrsity, to a man who cherishes the
English ideals, is a place where a man
win be trained for the love of science
and letters. independent of the question
W neither he is going to make q living
by their pursuit. Learning is regarded
as a means of enjoyment rather than
efficiency College life is the close
and elimination of a period of youth
full play, rather than the beginning Of
a lifetime of professional work. In the
English conception of a. university SO
and sports play a part hardly
less important than libraries and
laboratories.
existing side by side. Tn univer-
like Columbia or Pennsylvania,
situated in the midst Of large cities, the