Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-06
Carried Out Intention.

When Arthur Twining Hadley re-
signed the presidency of Yale UnlVer-
sity in 1921 he carried out an intention
expressed % years previously. Shorty
after his election as head of the uni
verslty 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 arr1v-
ing at that age reminded the corpora
ton of his determination to do so. He
resigned the presidency in order to de-
vote his time to the study Of economies,
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:
Now he claims his freedom believing
that at such a midway maturity a
change of occupation is in many ways
better than 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 as a chapter relating to the thir-
tenth presidency of Yale there will be
more to record as to his administration
than as to many which have preceded
it."
It was said of President Hadley that
his knowledge covered a wider range OF
subjects than almost any other univer-
sity president or professor. AS Yale
professor his intellectual passion was
railroad transportation, but there was
hardly subject in the college catalogue
he could not teach. He spoke all the
said there were few, dead or living, that
he could not read with understanding.
His attainments, however, were not
all strictly scholastic. He was re-
garded as the best chess and whist
player in New Haven. He was apt at
tennis, celebrated pedestrian and Al
pine climber; he was supposed to I'M
derstand foot ball strategy, at least on
the intellectual side, better than Wal
base ball and had one fixed idea, which
he would debate for hours, that it
would be a better game If played with
10 men instead of 9. He was greatly
interested in military strategy, and in
particular was an authority on the
strategic side of Napoleons campaigns.
Once at q circus he surprised the ele-
plant keeper by hts encyclopedia infor-
nation on elephants.
Son Of Yale Professor.
DR.. Hadley was born In New Haven,
Conn, April %, 1856, the only child
College and of Anne Twining Hadley.
He was prepared for college at the
Hopkins Grammar School New
Haven), and entered Yale in 1872. He
was elected to Delta Kappa IA his
freshman year, Delta Beta chi In his
sophomore year and Delta Kappa Ep-
silon In his junior year. He was also
member of the Senior Society OF
Skull and Bones.
He was valedictorian Of his class and
took Woolsey and BriSted Scholarships.
He was the recipient OF Winthrop prizes
for students most thoroughly acquatnt-
ed with the Greek and Latin poets" the
Clarke prize for the solution OF as
Economical problems and one Of the
Townsend prizes for English compost
ton.
He studied political science in New
Haven for a year after his graduation
in 1875 and continued his studies for
the next two years at the University Of
Berlin. On his return from Europe,
in the Autumn Of 1879, he was made q
tutor in Yale College, giving instruc-
ton in Greek, logic, German and Ro-
man law. His tutorShip ended IN 1883,
and about that time began his work in
the field of the history and science Of
railroad transportation. From 1883 TO
1885 he was university lecturer on rail-
road administration. In the latter
year he was appointed professor of po-
litical science in the graduate depart
ment. and in 1891 he was transferred
to the chair of political economy In Yale
College, which he held till his election
to the presidency in 1899.
In addition to the degrees received
from Yale others were conferred upon
him by Harvard, Wesleyan, Columbia,
Western Reserve, Johns Hopkins, VIII
liams. Dartmouth, University OF Cali
fornia and the University of Berlin. He
had served as president OF the American
Economic Association, was a trustee OF
the Carnegie Foundation since 1905,
served as Roosevelt professor at the
University Of Berlin in 1907 l9O6, and
was chairman of the Railroad Securlues
Commission appointed under the act
of Congress in 1910. In 1911 Mr.. Had
lev was chairman of the Hadley Com
mission appointed by President Tar
under the interstate commerce act 70
investigate the condition OF the rail-
roads. The report of the committee re-
suited in the railway valuation ACT o.
1918. He was q director OF the New
York, New Haven & Hartford and the
Atchison, Topeka e. Sante Fe raMroaos
and of the National Bank Of New Haven