The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-06
President Emeritus Of Yale First
Man to Hold Post Who
Was Not Clergyman
KNOWLEDGE STUPEND0US
Brilliant intellectually, He Also
Was Physical Champion
and Knew Football

Kobe, Japan, Mar. 6.-R)-Dr.
Arthur T. Hadley. 70, president en-
eritus Of Yale university, died today
aboard the round-the- world tourist
ship Empress of Australia.
The Empress of Australia. which
DR.. Hadley boarded In New York last
December 3 for a world cruise. locked
yesterday from China.
Pneumonia was given as the cause
Of death. Mrs. Hadley was accom-
panying the educator on the tour.
Stricken, the noted educator, writer,
lecturer and economist died yesterday
after a two. day illness. News of his
death was received here last night.
He sailed with Mrs. Hadley from New
York on December 3.
Besides his widow and Hamilton
Hadley, a son, he is survived by an
other son. Morris, also a lawyer in
New York, and a daughter, Mrs.
Nicholas Moseley of this city, whose
husband is provost of Albertus Mag
nus college.
Carried Out Intentions
When Arthur Twining Hadley re-
sigEed the presidency OF Yale univer-
sity al 1921 he carried out an inten-
ton expressed % years previously.
Shortly after his election as head Of
the university in 1899 he informed
the board of trustees that he would
retire from the presidency when he
reached the age Of IS and more than
a year before arriving at that age
reminded the corporation of his de-
termination to do SO. He resigned
the presidency in order to devote his
time to the study of economics, to
writing and lecturing.
The Yale corporation noted these
facts in a minute of commentator,
adopted at the time of the retirement
of President Hadley, and further said:
Nov he claims his freedom believing
that at such a midway maturity a
change of occupation is in many ways
better than a holiday for an active
man.
His fulfilled term of % years seems
a brief incident in the history of the
university, viewed from the beginning,
but rs q chapter relating to the 18th
presidency Of Yale there will be more
to record as to his administration
than as to many which have preced-
ed it,"
Was Not Clergyman
After paying tribute to President
Hadley'S administration for the not
able progress made by the university
during It, the minute said:
Although the first president in its
history who was not a clergyman,
Yale has experienced no loss in spir-
itual influence under Mr.. Hadley. His
baccalaureate and naturalization ad-
dresses have been most valuable con-
tributions to religious literature
keenly appreciated for their intel
lectual and moral stimulus by young
and old. The Christian ideals and
traditions OF the university were never
stronger than they are today"
It was said Of President Hadley
that his knowledge covered a wider
range of subjects than almost any
other university president Or profess
sor. As a college student he had TAX
en- a large majority of academic
prizes and one Of the favorite pas
times of upper classmen was to lift
young Hadley upon q box and make
him deliver IN address on any sub
ject assigned-an ordeal that he al
ways creditably passed through. AS
a Yale professor his intellectual pas
sion was railroad transportation, but
there was hardly a subject in the COL
lege catalogue he could not teach. He
spoke all the European languages
freely and it was said there were few.
dead or living that he could not read
with understanding.
Chess, Whist Champion
His attainments, however, were not
all strictly scholastic. He was re-