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1VHE NEBRASKAN-HESPERtAW. im i PRESIDENT HADLEY OP YALE. Yalo university stopped out of tlio traditions of two hundred years when she choso Arthur Twining Hadloy, of tho class of '76, to bo her noxt presi dent. From tho day when ton staunch clergymen mot in Branford and found ed tho' Colloglato school of Connecticut, Yale's presidents havo boon clorgymon, Connecticut Congregational clorgymon, and Professor Hadloy steps up tho first layman in tho Illustrious boadroll. Yalo sots for horsolf a now ora with his Inauguration next fall an ora, as tkcre can bo no doubt to anyone who known Professor Hadloy, of tromond oub possibilities for success and useful ness. President-elect Hadloy Is a Now Haven man, born and bred. Ho was educated and marriod thero, and ho has hardly been out of Now Haven for ten yeara in his lifo. Ho comes of an Intellectual stock, as one could cosily guess at first meotlng with him. His father was Professor James Hadloy, tho famous Greek scholar of a past generation at Yale, and his mother quo of tho old Twining family in Now Haven. Ho is both a Twining and a Hadloy and has blended tho unusual brain qualities of both branches. Pro fessor Hadley was born forty-threo years ago and was educated under tho supervision of his father and in tho famous old Hopkins grammar school, going thonco to Yale, where ho grad uated in 1876. Though but twenty years old at his graduation, Professor Hadloy at that early period of his lifo showed cvldenco of remarkable abil ities and graduated at tho head of his class. While at Yalo Professor Hadloy had been an ardent student of history and of social questions, and immedi ately upon leaving college ho took up post-graduate work In tho two subjects, continuing his studies abroad for two years in tho best colleges of tho con tinent. Ii 1879 he returned to Yale as a tutor in several branches, and grad ually worked into his favorite depart ment of research. His career since has been one of steady riso in his pro fession and of steadily Increasing pub lic recognition as a profound student of social conditions. His work at Yalo has for years been regarded as ono of tho most important forces in the col lege. Professor Hadley is one of tho few "all-round" men, as the students rato a man, in tho Yale faculty. Aside from his clasB room work ho has given a largo amount of hlB time to the under graduates in their outside work, and has been one of tho most successful and popular instructors. In tho college dobating ho has for a long tlmo been a principal mover, and it is duo to his personal interest that Yalo has tri umphed over Harvard so often in the last few years on the, platform, and in tho athletic interests that havo mado Yale famous tho country over for so many years he has boon a prominent figure. i He is an enthusiastic bicycle rider and a tireless cross-country walker, Is a first-class tennis player' and an ex pert with the golf stick. Ho can bo seen many an afternoon olthor at the Lawn club In white duck pounding a tonics ball or at tho golf grounds fol lowing a gutta purcha ball around tho links, and if you look closely at his companion it Is six to ono that he is a cpllogo man. All of these friendships "In tho open," as ho styles them, are among tho now president's delights, and they make him one of tho best of men to judge of the college man's char actor, as well as one of the most be loved. At tho ball games at tho field ho is always an enthusiastic Yale sup porter, and he Is as constant in his at tendance as tho most wildly partisan under-graduato "rooter.'' Ho is first of all and for all a "college man," and The Students Co-Operative Book Company. FUbL LINE of sill New Books in the University,. We also sell Second-Hand Books The Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen The Greatest Source of Satisfac tion in Student's Life. Our Line of Law Books is the Most Complete in the City Best Laundry Office Bring in Your Work Above all, Do Not Forget the Place THE CO-OP. 322 North 1 ith St. 322 North 1 ith St. after that ho will bo a college presi dent. College men admire wit. and tho quick-brained lecturer and public speaker is the ono who will havo the largest audiences nt Yalo and tho most appreciative. Thero is no more success ful instructor In tho Yalo faculty in this regard than Professor Hadley. Perhaps ho is a triflo awkward and nervous in his address at first, and very probably it takes a new class some days to become accustomed to him, but tho apparent strangeness of his manner isms wears off after that and tho stu dent forgets everything in listening to his lecture. Thero aro few men of pre eminently studious habits who can go straight to tho point with an audience of college men and waste so few words in enlightening a student's mind as can he. He has a most remarkable lucid ity of thought, and his lectures are gems of literary expression. Often when he over-ran the time limit of his lectures, tho class before him Bat spell bound, forgetting that another lecturer was awaiting them in another hall. Suddenly realizing that he was over stepping his time, ho would offer to stop, only to be cheered to tho echo and forced to continue. This has often been a cause for much amusement among tho men, and one of graceful and smiling acquiescence on the part of the professor. And sometimes Pro fessor Hadloy has been so forcoful in his arguments for certain political principles that ho has actually been "considered" by his brothers in power, and tho propriety of graduating a class of three hundred free traders B&rioiiBly argued out. Professor Hadloy's mental equip ment has hardly its equal at Yale. While still a young man, measured by the standards of his predecessors in office, he has already accomplisaed an almost Incredible amount of work, both In his college relations and In his per sonal researches. Ho has built up the department of political economy until It is in many respects tho most Influ ential in tho curriculum, and ho has given an impetus to tho study of mod ern social conditions that has mado tho study ono of tho most popular at Yale. 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