The sun., 1919-06-16
YALE'S PRESIDENT
DISCUSSES VISION
DR.. Hadley Urges That Events
Be Viewed From Several
Angles.
TO GET CORRECT IDEAS
Baccalaureste Address Is De-
livered to Large Audience
in Woolsey Hall.
TO GET CORRECT IDEAS
Special ps.pa,eA to TIE sux.


NEW HAVEN. Conn, June 15.-Dr. Ar
thur 4. Hadley. president OF Yale Uni
versity. delivered his baccalaureate ad-
dress here to-day to an audience that
nned every seat In Wooisey Hall, and
which included more graduates than
have ever returned to Yale ut any one
time before. Dr.. Hadley took as his
text The Measure OF the Stature of
the Fulness Of Christ" from Eph. w., IL.
He said in part:
TO get human events In their reia-
tive size we need to look at them from
a distance; and our college studies help
US to this end. History may be defined
as the science OF observing human
conduct at a distancs-of watch
Ing the behavior of men of other
nations and other times under con-
ditions whore we can see which OF
the things that looked large at the
time were really large and which were
simply prominent. The man who takes
the lessons Of history to heart has an
advantage. not only In judging the pol
itics Of his own nation but In judging
his own conduct and that of those about
him. ..-...
Nor is It by historical studies alone
that we can hslp ourselves to make true
estimates OF the real size Of things, The
man who reads masterpieces of poetry
and prose which have stood the test Of
time gets habit of Judgment Of lit
erary values which Ia denied 70 him who
only reads the novels of the day. The
habit OF fixing our vision and our In
terest on things which have looked great
to successive generations of men, In
stead OF appealing to the monetary in
terest Of single decade or a single
year, gives a student of letters or art
&raae tWx.~N o..
Is the true Justification of classical study.
Men who have the instinct for what is
permanent become thereby better judges,
not of art and letters only. but of his
torical and moral values.
Sense of Relative Values.
I'VE can also learn to look at facts
without prejudice. The man who has
studied the law can make his knowleds G
OF evidence Just as valuable a help In
his own personal character as in his pro-
fess!onal practice. The man who has
studied science can find the habit of
making measurements instead of making
guesses, and Of applying general rules
rigidiy instead of treating individual
cases at haphazard. just as important for
as an expert. Everything that conduces
to objectivity in our thinking can be
made to contribute to that right sense of
values which IL at once 30 useful and %
rare. o..
I'VE may also learn from our college
experience to look at things IN as many
cross lights as possible. During the last
three or four years We have had the
chance to compare impressions with men
who were studying the same things that
we were and interested In the same
things. but who looked at them from diff
ferent angles of vision-men OF different
antecedents. different prejudices, different
habits of weighing evidence. From such
a comparison. ~ honestly made. comes a
salutary correction of our standards of
value. The man who looks at events
from one point only sees them fiat. The
man who looks at them from several
standpoints sees them solid. He gets
their depth as well as their surface II il
IN this respect that humor Is an I'M
mensely powerful help TO the Christian
leader: for humor Is In its very essence
an unexpected sidelight thrown upon q
familiar picture, which reveals the depth
as well as the surface.
Urges Helping of Others.
How is this sslf-forgetfulness achieved
| and how can We use the experiences OF
college life to help US in comprising ri
No man ever learns to forget himself by
a conscious act of forgetting. He does I,
by doing things for other people. which
, absorb his thoughts until they become
fixed, as by instinct. on something out
side OF himself. What thing that shall
be depends largely upon his own per.
sonal characteristics
IF he IL a man OF strong affections
he achieves self-forgetfulness through
sympathy; entering into tha thoughts
| and feelings Of those about him unit
their happiness becomes his instructive
goal and drives considerations OF his
own personal profit out of account. II
he is a man of political instinct. an or.
| 1anizer and leader OF men, he achieves
! self forgetfulness through contact with
public sentiment He rejoices in becom
! ing part OF collective movements OF feel
I ing and opinion. which he dominates
more and more surely as he sinks hi,
own personality in the general zeal 70,
the public good.
III he has the temperament OF th.
, scholar and Investigator he achieves self
forgetfulness through idealism- He come
TO care 50 much for the truth that hi
personal affairs and interests are for
gotten in the face of the eternal veritiei
as he sees them. For him La realized IL
a very profound sense the Scriptura
promise. .Ye shall know the truth, AM
the truth shall make you free By on,
or the other OF these routes the world
T, great leaders have reached a measure o
| self-forgetfulness which enabled them Il
add to their sense of values and thci
force OF personality the confidence ant
the life which is given to him who ha
lost himself In the thought of something
larger and higher and more enduring"
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