New Britain herald., 1916-06-20
PREPAREDNESS AS
 HADLEY VIEWS 1T
Not All Patriotic Enthusiasm,
 Says Yale President Today

New Haven, Conn.,, June 20.-The alumni meeting at Yale university l held in Battel chapel was addressed 1 by President Arthur T. Hadley of the university who said in part:
 We miss today two familiar faces without which a Yale commenceme ent hardly seems itself-Timothy Dwight 1 and John Christopher Schwab. "President Dwight was a represen- tative of all that was best and most genial in the older Yale and in the younger Himself a clergyman, he was an active agent in the changes which brought Yale out from clerical control Himself, classical scholar, he sympathized most heartily with the development of the Scientific school He had in the highest meas ure the spirit of devotion, of hard work, and of democratic comradeship with all, that distinguished the Yale of our fathers and that characterizes the Yale of today.
 ''The same breath of sympathy and contact were seen in Prof. Schwab Dwight was a man of the past whose mind was open to what is best in the present. Schwab was a man of the present who had inherited what was best from the past. No man in his generation exemplified more fully than he the Yale ideals of public ser vice.
 Another familiar figure that we miss is Arthur William Wright.
 Less actively connected with the alumni meetings, but no less honor ably identified with the work of Yale, were Augustus Jay Dubois and Guy Stevens Calender of the Sheffield Scientific school.
 Less known to the students and graduates but, not less important to the university, were the services of James Wesley Cooper for thirty years, member of the Yale corpor- ation. At the time of his death, pr. Cooper was serving as secretary of the corporation; and I think it was a life's ending that he would have chosen.
 "The year has been one of active progress in almost every department of the university. The School of Med ioine is developing its departm ent of public health. The Forest school has prepared itself to take the lead in the investigation of the great field of tropical forestry.
 ''The changes in the work of the undergraduate departments have been less conspicuous but equally impor- tant. The Scientific school had de- veloped it's fourth and fifth year courses in engineering and it's work in business administration. The academic department has been wrestling with the problem created by the increas- ing size of it's freshman classes. The chapel question appears to have been satisfactorily solved; the housing problem is still unsettled. The prob lem of the control of athletics, has not yet reached a definite solution.
 "The thing that interests Yale grad uates more than changes in depart mental policy or athletic administra- ton is the attitude of Yale and it's students towards the great national questions of the day.
 "Under the advice of the war de- partment we have organized four bat teries of artillery. This was done un- der discouraging conditions Unexpect- ed delays postponed the actual or ganization of the battalion. There were no proper accommodations in the way of buildings. The giving up of the camp of artillery instruction at Tobyhanna was 8 severe blow A course in United States Military His tory under Major Danforth has been made a college elective.
 "In another part of the prepared ness movement Yale has also taken the lead. Ten years ago Prof. Bailey, in his work in practical sociology, re- cognized the need of teaching immi- grants English and doing other things to help us in assimulating them to American conditions. Since that time hundreds of Yale men have taken their part in teaching evening classes in the various factories of New Ha- better and more intelligent citizens.
 We have been criticized for not doing more to advertise our position. I am believer in preparedness. am member of the committee on the summer military instruction camps for students, and have been an active mover in the organization of believe that preparedness like charity begins at home; that organized emo- tion can never take the place of brains; that Yale's first duty in pre- pairing American citizens, whether for peace or war, is to adhere to rigid standards of discipline and scholar ship and we'll developed sense of pro- portionate values. If our students have these things as a basis, the more they prepare themselves for the possible requirements for military service the better without them the spirit of pre- paredness may become a danger; with