New-York tribune., 1910-06-22
HAD[EY FOR BIG Salaries
Yale President Tells Alumni Pro-
fessors Need More.
TAFT'S SON AMONG LEADERS
Gets Highest Scholarship Stand
for Full Course-Athletes
in Honor Roll.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.I J

| II,
called the inadequacy of our present rate
OF pay" President Arthur T. Hadley IN his
address to-day at the alumni meeting,
which is feature of Yale commencement
week, made an earnest plea for larger sala-
ries for the Yale faculty.
He declared that at the very top-mean-
ing professors who do full work-'the le-
| eitinate demands of the Individual and the
| legitimate needs of the university coincide
ir demanding large increases OF salary
DR.. Hadley deprecated the sentiment eX-
listing at Yale that in general all the pro-
fessors in the same faculty should have
the same salary He said the basis for TINS
sentiment was the belief that that was the
only way In which PROFESSIONAL independ-
ence could be assured.
He outlined various possible methods or
| remedying the matter. and concluded that
the corporation should arrange salaries and
| salary schedules with the advice OF the
deans or directors, with the full under
standing that they may deal with indf-
vidual cases on their merits.
President Hadley's interest in this sub
ject of increasing salaries was shown again
in his address when the alumni fund came
up for mention.
Bic Alumni Contributions.
He said the contributions to that fund
this year were SO large that the directors
were able to give $4,000 to the income of
| the university. The president added:
This gift has been accompanied by the
request, which the corporation will follow
| with great satisfaction, that as large
part of this as possible may go to the in
crease Of salaries
Touching on the present and future fnan-
cial problems Of the university, the presi-
dent said: -,-.. ....
| Five years ago the finances of Yale Uni
versity were in a somewhat critical state
The period from 1899 to 1906 had been a
time of great educational expansion; but
/ there had not been a corresponding IN
crease in material resources.
The actual income of the university in
the year ending July 81, 1889, had been
In ths the year ending sgly Of e. ore 5954
/ than 30 per cent in the student enrolment
/ had been accompanied by an increase or
| less than per cent in the disposable IN
come.
This state of things rendered -competi-
ton with our rivals exceedingly difficult
Harvard and Columbia each had more than
double the endowment OF Yale Ihe leaq-
! ing state universities of the West were OBJ
tanning an income approaching that OF
! Harvard and Columbia
| In the spring of 1905 Mr.. Stokes issued
memorandum indicating the need OF at
least s5.O00000 of additional endowment
This suggestion, involving as 1t qua
| doubling in the immediate future OF the
productive funds of the university. seemed
| at the time almost chimerical. But in the
five years that have elapsed since the issue
| of Mr.. Stokes's original memorandum his
plans have been substantially carried out
| The restoration of the funds of the vari-
Gus departments TO their fun amount en-
abled US to increase our total salary pay
ments by more than 20 per cent, although
the actual teaching force of the university
had increased but 10 per cent. The whole
| Ip af salaries had previously been
low that this advance had TO be sort OF
| horizontal increase quite evenly distr1o-
able than they would have been had we
been able to apporton the income to a Few
individuals.
| DR.. Hadley said that the southwestern
section of the FIillhouse property, or
sachem's Wood estate, for the purchase
of which Mrs. Russell Sage gave Yale $780,.
600, will be used for university laboratories,
adding:
/ The first Of these Laboratories will be that
Of physics. We shall proceed as soon as
possible to build q university laboratory
in zoology. We have had as yet no specific
| gift for this purpose, but it represents so
vital a necessity TO the university that in
case no gift is FORTHCOMING the corporation
will feel itself justified in departing from
fits usual policy and spending productive
furds for building purposes
| We need means and facilities for labora-
tory instruction in biology. We are not
only behind other universities in this re-
spect; we are behind the ma ajority Of good
| colleges. The absence of facilities 10 teach
zoology by modern methods is probably
the most glaring deficiency in Yale to-day.
The alumni meeting was held in Alumni
Hall for the last time as this structure
is to give way to the Wright memorial dor
r11itory. The Rev. J. G. K. Mcclure, 20.
presided, and the speakers were Marcus
P. Knowlton. go; Eugene L. Richards, 's6;
Percy Jackson. IS S.. and Edward T. Hart,
'07
Dean Smith, who retires from the medical
school, said that the school had just re-
ceived s25, 600 from an anonymous give-
for additional endowment.
Dean Henry Wade Rogers, of the Law
School, recommended that new degree of
juris doctor be conferred on those who pass
a year of graduate work in arts, science
or philosophy. and who pass their examina-
tions in law with distinction.
Dean Weir, of the Art School said that
$4,000 endowment for q school of archt-
lecture was In sight and Dean Horatio
Parker, OF the Music School, announced
gift Of the income of $4,000 by Mrs. George
Sheffield TO found a scholarship in memory
Of her father, Professor S. S. Sanford It
is to be awarded after competition in orig
inaI musical composition.
Official announcement was made that D..
George E. Bluuaer, OF New Haven. will sue
oeed DR.. Herbert G. Smith as dean of the
Medical School. DR.. Blumer is professor
of the theory and practice of medicine at
| the school
The honor list Of the class of 10 which
| was announced to-day, disclosed the name
of Robert Alphonso Taft, son OF the Presi-
dent, among those of the leaders in schol-
| arships. He is one OF the twenty-seven to
whom philosophical orations. representing
| the highest stand for scholarship for the
| entire course Of four years In the academic
| department. were awarded.
Bob" Taft led his class during its first
two years. and 1t is said that If Yale had
not adopted thAJ-slG noW In effect which