New-York tribune., 1921-06-23
Angell Takes
Office as l4tll
Yale President
National Need Is for Men
Trained to Handle Great
Problems of the Day, He
Declares at Inauguration
instruction Not Radical
Davis Approves American
Policy of Lloyd George;
Taft Address Hits Harvey
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

NEW HAVEN, June 22-James Row
land Angel was to-day inaugurated
fourteenth president of Yale in the
presence of 1000 alumni who have re-
turned for their commencement re
unions and one of the largest gather
ings of delegates from universities,
colleges. prepare tory schools and
learned societies ever assembled here.
Arthur T. Hadley, who retired to-day
as president after twenty-one years.
service, inducted DR.. ANGEL into office
through the simple ceremony Of hand
ing him the insignia OF ONCE. Before
the induction President Hadley con-
farred upon Dr. Angel the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws. Professor
William Lyon Phelps presented DR..
Angel for the degree
President Lowell OF Harvard in well
coming President Angel on behalf of
other universities and Professor Rus
sell Chittenden welcomed him on be-
half of the Yale faculty. Although DR..
Angel, DR.. Hadley and Nine. Curie re-
ceived ovations at the inauguration the
greatest was given the Rev. DR.. Anson
Phelps Stokes, the retiring secretary,
when he was awarded the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws.
Davis Upholds Lloyd George
This afternoon John w. Davis, for
mer Ambassador to Great Britain, who
was this morning made Doctor of Laws,
said he believed the speech of Premier
Lloyd George in England five days ago,
in which the policy Of Great Britain
was declared to be cooperation with
the United States in disarmament and
other national affairs, would awaken q
responsive chord in the breast of every
Am erican college graduates.
Former President Taft, in comment
ing on Mr.. Lloyd Georges speech, made
what was regarded as a reflection on
the recent address of Ambassador
George Harvey. sHe said that when Am
bassador Davis spoke in Great Britain
there was no rebound Mr.. Taft also
made plea for $5,000,000 to increase
professors salaries. He said that a
friend of Yale had pledged $4,000 900,
in case Yale raised S2,000,000; that the
institution had obtained $1,3OOOO0 and
needed only $700,000 more.
President Angel will be given the
degree of Doctor of Laws at Harvard
omorrow.
The need for scholarly and dispas-
stotAo"O SeUoy VI tiie great prODl6mS OF
life was never more urgent than it is
to-day, DR., Angel declared in his in
augural address. He voiced the warn
ing that if the universities do not sup
ply men trained to deal with these
issues they must become the playthings
OF amateurs and charlatans.
Saying that the tension was creates st
IN the field of economics and political
and social theory, Dr. Angel continued: ::
Many good citizens are disturbed,
somewhat needlessly, l suspect, by the
alleged radical character of our COL
leglate instruction in these fields and
by the supposed spread of radical here
sizes among our students. Whatever
may be the facts of this particular is
sue, certain it is that we need in all
these matters the most painstaking and
thoughtful examination of the prob
lem by men of wide experience, thor
ough training and utter impartiality
in order that we may know the truth
and act accordingly. What is true of
the social sciences is, if possible, even
more true in the range of the physical,
chemical and natural sciences"
Lack of Teachers a Menace
A grave crisis confronted colleges.
DR.. Angel said, by reason of the darth
Of properly qualified teachers in MANY
branches of study. The cure for this,
he added, was to be found in better
academic salaries, in more congenial
conditions of work and, above all in
more generous recognition of the i'm
portance of the scholars function by
the general public