The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-19
TAFT DECIDES ON ACCEPTANCE.
  OF YALE-0 OFFER
Kent Professorslip of Law Alp
 peaIs to Him as Fitting Posi-
 ton For Retired President -.A@. i&l Will Get Full Salary and be on
 Membership of the Academic Faculty ---<a

Me1nDeTSnlp Ol The ACaOemlc Faculty z-e@
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 Washington, Dec I9-ofncfa1 confir..
 mation of the story. published aATveek
 ago, announcing} that President Taft
 would go to Yale to teach, after leave
 Ing the White House, new comes from
 the President himself. who says. he
 has made up his mind to accept the [ proffer of the Kent professorship of law at Yale. and probably will take up his duties at New Haven early in 1 the spring. ## aA fSss. He will. not be restricted merely to
 lectures to Yale students, but will be ] permitted to lecture if he desires in ether law schools or upon the plat form, or to engage in any other occu-
 patton which he sees fit. e If he had
 returned itos Cincinnati to resume his
 law business he felt. that. he would
 have but little opportunity for prac-
 tice. He felt that he could not ap-
 pear in cases before the United States
 Supreme Court because he has ap- pointed ma jority of it's membership.
 He also remembered when he thought
 of the law that he. had named many
 federal Judges in Ohio before whom l he might have to argue cases, and he ! believed that about the only sort of
 practice which he could take up would be international, and that he regarded as uncertain.
 At Yale the President will be in
 surrounding dear to him and will be
 in a-posdtion to engage in almost any sort of business which he believes be- comes a retired President. The an alogy between the Yale profeSso orship
 and Grover Cleveland relation with
 Princeton appealed to MT. Taft strong i ly and. when many of his close friends
 and advisers wrote to him approving l hls acceptance of the chair at Yale he
 decided to take it.
 The President expects to spend sew eral weeks after March in Augusta Ga. where he has many friends.
 President Taft will assume the Kent
 professorship of law, one of the oldest
 chair is in the academic department Iof the university and the President
 faculty of that department or as it is
 commonly styled, the college
 Will Get Full Salary.
 | The Kent professorship was named
 after Chancellor Kent, one of the
 most distinguished 9tlrists ever grad
 received this appellation in 1883. The fund of the. Kent professorship con-
 sists of $6,5O0. the income Of which
 amounts ozsbut a little over. $500 a
 year, but this has no relation to the
 question of the com pensation which
 President Taft will receive. It was 1 thorita lively yersed in Yale. affairs |, that Presfde dent, Taft while ass suming the stitle1 of the Kent professor. " il come to Yale as afu1I profesaor and
 receive a fl1l professors salary, S. GOO
 a. year This is a practice which has
 numerous precedents at Yale as in Led with. a sufficient sum to give an
 salary a s but the dierenee is 1 male 6aSsss up Eby the university out of it's funds as will be done with President Taft What Rrofessorship Is.
 The Kent professorship of eonstitu- tional law has been untitled since the
 death of Edward .eJ.7 Phelps, former
 ambassador to Great Britain, in 1900. The actual amount. of work which it entails is not definitely prescribed but
 rests largely with the professor and the arrangements made in connection with his acceptance of the chair. Dean Frederic s.. Jones; into whose depart
 ment President Taft will come, stated
 last night that he could not say just how many hours of lectures President
 Taft would give at Yale. He stated that it was the custom of Professor Phelps to give three hours of lectures per week during his incun1bency of the professorshfp. It will not be necessary
 for the President, however, to follow
 ort this precedent. M
 HadIey Delighted.
 President Hadiey when told of. the l announcement made in Washing gton last night expressed himself as very
 happy and delighted. He said:
 | <I haven't received any conmunica-
 saying: that President Taft has ac- cepted the professorship but you may qhote me as saying that am greatly
 delighted that he has decided to come here. ''z- -+s@@.eT 59@ Es' Dean Jones, in speaking of the mat ter last night, said he was very much
 pleased to learn that President Taft 1 had decided to accept the chair at
 Yale and declared that he would be a l grand acquisition. to the college.
 Dean Rogers Pleased.
 Dean Rogers. of the Yale Law school, stated that while the chair PreSiHfrf,. f.. TNa fl fod is moi iD l the law department. he was greatly delighted to hear of his coming to Yale and he added; CT hope he will do little work in the law school We are l in my departRlent:'' 5i a 4. Dean Rogers further said that Pres ident Cleveland had set a good exam pie when he went from the White
 House to Princeton and ltNT was a source of great satisfaction to all Yale men that President Taft had. decided to sfolloW that example. President Taft is gradua te of Yale l in the class of. 1878, and was saluta-, torian and class orator of his class. He was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws there in 1903. ss = Gov Bafdwin's Views. S When the fact of President Taft's acceptance of the Kent professorshiF was communicated to Governor Bald win.- he expressed great pleasure. and said that President Taft, independent
 United States, was a high authprity on points of constitutional and inter national law. and the students of Yale. would be very fortunate in having him lecture on those sub jects His theoretical ,knoW1edge,'' said the Gov ernor, was great before he became edge of the workings of both systems of law in all directions, has been add ed through his official position
 The next meeting of the Yale cor, tjrv1 rx1I1 E11a.1 1eII +T,1 ff,ir