New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-17
.HADLEY DEFINES SUCCESS
Service Rendered, Not Pay Ex-
acted, Says YaIe'S President.
WORK OF COLLEGES HARD
Declares Ideal Resembles That
of Government School, Though
Demands Are More Varied.

New Haven, June rs (SpeciaD.-The an
nual baccalaureate sermon Of President Ar"
thur 7. Hadley Of Yale. in Woolsey Hall
to-day, was more largely devoted to eco
nomic and industrial principles than any
he has before delivered. Taking as text
whatsoever would be chief among you. let
him be your servant" Or. Hadley declared
that success, measured by wealth, was i'll
Judged but success. measured by service
was enduring. lie laid down the principle
that, in the development of our industries
and commerce. private business became a
public trust when the public welfare was
affected.
President Hadley said, in part:
The question is constantly asked whether
our colleges prepare their students TO be
successful in after life. In nine cases out
Of ten the man who asks this question
measures success In terms of wealth. lie
thinks of the whole world as playing a
game in which money is the prize and the
man who makes most money the winner.
il this were the right way to look at lie,
the inquiry would he an Overwhelmingly
important one But il is an essentially
wrong way to look at life and the nation
which takes this view OF things does SO
at It's peril The true measure of man
success IS the service which he renders
not the pay which he eXacts for 1t.
II any one were to ask whether West
Point or Annapolis prepared men for sue
cess i'm after life. we should see the alb
surdity of the question. It is true that
many Of the graduates OF these INSTITUTIONS
are able engineers or successful men or
these things that we established our mill
tary schools, and not by their success In
producing engineers and business men thal
the value Of these schools is measured. II
every graduate OF these institutions went
into engineering Ct into business and MADE
q success OF II, this would not prove ihdl
those institutions did the work we had a
right TO expect of them. Their WORK Is
10 train men to uphold the honor and Sc
cure the safety Of their country.
The most fundamental lessons which they
teach their students are those OF loya'lEE
and discipline and COurage-nOt one OF
which has anything TO do with MAKING
money, and all Of which are at times llaUlc
10 interfere with II. The oihcer must ot
prepared to sacrifice his comfort AT the
call of duty. He must know how to obey
orders and how to give orders. lie mus'
Cept diShonor. West Point and AnnapohS
are not primarily engaged in training me. meI
for business; they are engaged IN tTalhhne
DO them for what they proudly can the ser
The ideal Of Yale and of other American
colleges in matters like this IS CLOSELY re re-
lated TO that of West Point or Annapolis
Yale. BY the terms of its original toQhdd'
ton, was designed as 2 place Whereny MI
may he fitted for public employment, POI
In church and civil state Nor was tiu'
purpose peculiar to Yale. Other colleges
have subsequently adopted the same forl
OF words in their charters. rms was tn'
svowed object of American college educa
ton. According to our success IN achleN
ing this we must judge ourselves ana p'
judged by others. -.
The work which our colleges are under
taking TO do for the country is in som'
respects a more difficult one than ina
which falls to the lot OF the military
schools The service for which we prepare
is more varied: its safeguards ard it's re-
wards are more intanCible its problems
are newer and more perpexng. All th'
more reason is there, therefore, why o OIi
face the situation clearly and accept th'
burdens imposed upon them with thor eEe'
Nc are living I'm the midst OF q world
whose material prosperity has outgroWn llS
commercial law and commercial ethlcS
That law and those ethics were arrange
10 meet the needs Of an age whose bus
ress conditions were very much simple
: than those of to-day, Where a hunoTzc o'
rendently it was safe for the public q
let each man charge Whatever prices III
could get, because II ne trled 10 ger a,
down II was safe 70 let each man max,
such terms with his workmen as ne coulu
because II one man became involved IN 2
labor dispute the public could buy what !
needed from other producers until thl'
particular dispute was settled Under these
circumstances we said and said rightly
that each man fulfilled his pubic Guty !
he pursued his own interest in an intel
GENT ana square way, without fraud o.
conCealment. .,
but as matters are to-day arranged
there are a great many instances wher'
competition cannot he relied upon 10 pro
duce fair prices and a great many IN
stances where disputes as TO the terms o
tho labor contract are not a private con
Germ IF few men. but involve large publi
interests Of many kinds. Different method
have been proposed for dealing with thes
problems One man wants enforced com
netition: another urges complete publlclty
third recommends government regula
tion OF prices or Of wages; fourth adVo
Gates nublic ownership and management o
Industry Each of these proposals may
he right as means Of meeting SPECIFIC
difficulty in some particular instance; NO
one of them can claim to be solution o.
the problem; We are IN every instance Try
inc 10 deal by statute with q difficulty
which can only be solved by ethics.
What form the industrial ethics Of thu
f1,t,Ira will take. and what reciprocal duties
public opinion will impose upon consumer
end upon producer. upon capitalist ant
unon iaborer. 7 shall not Undertake u
predIct. TWO things, however. are certain
Srst that anv system Of ethics which vii
meet the needs OF the future will involve
the acceptance Of the principle that pri
vate business Is a public trust whenever
tho pifblic welfare is affected by II. and
second. that this IDEA must pc appIed VII
intelligence as we'll as with broad public
The two must 20 together. or al thu
dih5cuitieS that threaten US at the present
JaV and NJ all the obstacles which stand
IN the way OF enlightened public sentiment
The worst chat we have 70 deal with Is 2
diyisio1l Of our leaders into two camps
one Of which emphasizes the need OF intel