The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-18
PRESIDENT HADLEY ON THE
WAR.


President IIadey of Yale takes a lesson from the
times and adds to old adagc. Not only eternal
vigilance but effective political and military organ
zaion, is the price OF liberty today" 1t is lesson
for cducational institutions derived from
not wholly. though in part German. and not wholly
though in part also. English. our American uni
vcrstics We're founded the English lines, where
the aim is ito promote culturephysical mental and
moral. The system has developed clean living
gentlemen, interested to greater less extent in
books and studies. and with high ideals of public
service" The German type, he points out in The
Yale Alumni Weekly (New Haven't, has aimed to
promote efficiency. 1T has trained physicians and
lawyers, engineers and technologsts to the prac-
tice of their several professionals it has done little
for the general culture of the student except
thorough study of any subject gives
idea OF what scholarship means every line. But
1t has fitted the graduate to apply his abilities to
the problems of life. whether at home abroad.
and to do modern work by modern methods In the
particular field to which he has devoted himself"
1t has been the houc of educational leaders.
President Hadley continues, that might
how combine these ideals of university life. The
present war has brought out the fact that the diff
fercnccs Of university organization reflect diff
ference of national ideals that thus Analysed:
THE Englishmans ideal is character: tho Ger
mans ideal is performances. The Eneshman de-
sires to be man among men, governed as far
\
be efficient organization helping it do it's work
better than other organization did it be-
fore. The war is, in fact, contest between these
two types; and the underlying lesson Of these awful
years is that somehow the virtues of the two types
must be conjoined instead of separated. The Eng
fish type left to itself. tends to ahead gallanty
and Loyalty, but unntclligcntly. The German type
left to itself tends to gain its immediate Objects
inteligenty and efficiently but at the sacrifice of
| those habits of courtesy and morality which are
| tho very basis of civilization.
1T is sometimes said that wars waged for
| commercial reasons This may be true of little wars,
| but 1t is not true of great Every great
| establishes some principle. The of the French
revolution established the principles civil liberty.
The wars in the middle Of the last century cstab-
lished the principle of nationality believe that this
will establish the principle that character and
| performance must go hand In hand that morals
| and brains must be conjoincd: and that civili-
zation which attempts to base itself either 10
| the exclusion Of the other is fundamentally in
completed"
1t is for us to take this lesson to heart as the
| shadow of war comes upon us. says President Had
ley pointing out the element of our weakness in
respect to our mental attitude toward the coming
struggle;
| I'VE tend to deal with everything cmotonaly: to
demand the organization OF an army of volunteers.
without reference to the question whether 1t could
OF 10 pass law Tor tnP training
of half 4 million each year when e have barely
officers enough to train hundred thousand. This
is not time for haste but for deliberaton: time
to separate sharply the things that We do from
the things that We cannot do; time to lay plans
for the future well as for the present
I'VE can help Europe by naval activity, by the
furnishing of supplies and money. by taking our
full share in the work keeping the seas open tc
commerce. We can not directly help Europe by
organizing n volunteer army. Accepting Kitchen
crs estimate of eighteen months as the time whicf
IT takes to get volunteer army really ready 70,
action--and this estimate is confirmed by our Civil
war expericnce-we could not expect our volunteers
to render useful help to the Allies in their lane
fighting until the spring Of 1919 II that time thu
ocean is still open to our ships the will b.
n ended if it Is not open to ships we can no
send the army. The organization of our land force
must be directed not TO the supposed possibility Q
taking part in the European struggle, aluring a