Word: hadley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of many a patriarch is sacred within the walls of his college but comparatively unknown outside. Not so with Patriarch Hadley. His fame as an economist outshone even his pedagogical career. "Hadley on Transportation," written 45 years ago, is still the Good Book to railroaders. Dr. Hadley, who wrote it while he was a college lecturer on railroad administration, assembled his material by logical digestion of previous works, not on the right-of-way. His good friend William Howard Taft, graduated two years after him, appointed him chairman of a commission to investigate the condition of U. S. rail...
Proud of his intellect, Yale has built up a fund of tradition about Patriarch Hadley. One campus tale has it that he taught his son Morris calculus one afternoon while out walking, illustrating his discourse by scratching geometrical figures on the hard ground with twigs...
Latin. With his habitual rising and falling inflection accompanied by a pumping motion of the hands, Patriarch Hadley responded in the same tongue extemporaneously. Yalemen say that Bryan leaned over to Patriarch Hadley, complimented him on his excellent Swedish...
Unlike that Grand Old Man of Harvard, the late President Emeritus Charles William Eliot, Dr. Hadley was not an educator save by his example as an educated man. He, for instance, would never have suggested that the nucleus of wisdom could be placed on a 60-in. bookshelf. Nor is it likely that President Emeritus Eliot, liberal though he was, would have ever taken his politics so liberally as to endorse Alfred Emanuel Smith, as did practical Patriarch Hadley...
Revered at Western Reserve (Cleveland) is the name of Charles Franklin Thwing, who became President nine years before Dr. Hadley headed Yale's executive and who retired, Emeritus, the same year (1921). He is now national President of Phi Beta Kappa, a Congregational minister, an elector of New York University's Hall of Fame, an experienced promoter of "floating" universities...