The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-11
'TAFTs YALE AS PROFESSOR
 AFTER MARCH
PRESIDENT TO OCCUPY KENT CHAIR OF LAW, LAST HELD BY
 LATE E J. PHELPS.
s5,O3O YEAR GOES WITH II
Information From Close Friend Shows He Will Not Return to
 Practice.

President Taft will not go to Cincin- nati and practice law when he leaves the White House, but has agreed to accept professorship in- the Yale Law school. This statement was made last night, according to the New York Sun, i by a close friend of President Taft who said he was acquainted with the Presidents plans.
 The Suns informant said that Presi- dent Taft would accept the Kent pro ,fessorship of law which has not been filled since the death of Edward J. Phelps in 1900 MT. Phelps was ap- pointed in 1881, and although he became Minister to Great Britain by appoint ment of President Cleveland in 1885, he retained it until his death The pro- fess orship covers lectures in both con stituttonaI and interHa tionaI law.s: President sHadIey was asked about cept ss the Kent profe ssorsi1Ip at his home in New Haven. ss-J
 ssYour Information that Ifresident Taft is to come to Yale is much more complete than my own he said. TT hadn't heard of it. s
 ..The Kent professorship has been un- filled since the death of MT. Phelps, but there is an endowment for it's con tinuation. I can't tell you the amount of the endowment without consulting the papers at my office.'
 The statement was made to The Sun that the Kent endowment is about S5,- coo a year, and this sum, with RreGi- dennt Taft's private income of ssio0o a year, is said to be regarded by him sufficient for the needs of himself and his family. motive in accepting the Kent profes- sorship is chiefly his fondnesss for Yale University and all 1t represents. No elumnuS is held in higher esteem by the entire graduate body than President Tatt, while the President on his fre- quent visits to Yale had constantly expressed gratiffcati ton over his return
 Aside from the natural desire which President Taft would have for post such as the Kent professorship, which offers somewhat wider field for lec- lures than the usual professorship, his friend who talked with The Sun said that had caused the President no little embarrassment
 He has considered returning eo the practice of law, but many of the Fed era1 Judges before whom he would be expected to appear have been appoin ted to the bench by him. while he also has appointed the majority of the Su-
 This would ennbarrass the President in the highest court in the land. E- It is known that talks the President has had recently with members Of the ale Corporation bore directly upon the desire Of the university to have him accept the Kent professorship, but it was determined by the university au- thorities to permit the President to make the announcement when he felt ready to do so.
 Yaie men feel the Kent professor ship is one which appeals particularly to President Taft because of the dis tinguishedt predecessor, Edward John Phelps. MT. Phelps. who was native of Vermont, was president of the Am erican Bar lassocIa ton the year before he was called to Yale During his in cumbency the professorehip became one of the most noted in the country. In 1893 he was one of counsel for the United States in the arbitration over the Bering Sea, controversy. in which his knowledge of ii1terna tional law made him valuable to his Government.
 A precedent for the invitation of President Taft to the Yale professor ship is found in the appointment of President Cleveland as Stafford Little lecturer at Princeton- s
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