Word: hadley
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President Hadley has decided to establish a "University Council" at Yale to assist in the administration of the university. Heretofore the method of managing the various departments has been through a general faculty meeting held once a week, at which all matters pertaining to the department interested were discussed. As a meeting of all the faculty members of the university at once, however, was out of the question, the president was forced to meet each faculty in turn, and discuss the affairs relating to its department. This meant a great waste of time on the president's part, and tended...
...plan of President Hadley to have the faculties of the academic, scientific and graduate departments meet regularly, with their deans as the presiding officers, as well as the faculties of the Law, Medical, Theological and Art Schools. The dean system will be carried out to its fullest possibilities, and will be made the organization unit of the university. Each dean is to become the working head of his department. The council will consist of not more than fifteen members...
Professor A. T. Hadley, the new president of Yale, was a lecturer at Harvard in 1886; and the Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, the new president of Brown, has been twice University Preacher at Harvard. Dr. George Harris, president of Amherst, has also been University Preacher...
...students of Yale are to have an extensive celebration on the evening following the inauguration of President Hadley, Oct. 18. The requisite expenses have almost been raised by the different classes. McBride, captain of the football team, will act as chief marshal of the parade; Captain Allen of the crew as Senior class marshal. In conjunction with the action of the undergraduate committees in charge of the inauguration, the University Club will give a dinner of ninety or a hundred covers...
References: Cong. Recd., Jan. 13, '98, p. 600; Annals American Academy, July, '97; American Mag, of Civics, July, '96; Hadley's Polit. Econ., Index on Immigration; Board of Trade Rept...