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...death of Arthur T. Hadley, president emeritus of Yale, marks the termination of a life filled with creative effort. As an undergraduate Hadley was famed among his classmates for his broad knowledge, taking prizes in such varied fields as Greek and Latin poetry, astronomy, and English composition. A scholar, he had proceeded far towards the achievement of that balance which every well-rounded individual desires between physical and mental exertions. Not only was he a skilled Alpinist, but was said to have been as well versed as Walter Camp in the theory of football...
...President Hadley rendered distinguished services to his country, serving on a Congressional committee in 1910 to investigate railroad securities, and in 1911 as chairman of a commission appointed by President Taft under the interstate commerce act to study the conditions of the railroads. His great work, however, was as the executive of Yale University where his administration from 1899 until 1921 may be compared with that of President Eliot at Harvard. The development of the Sheffield Scientific School, the doubling of the university's endowment, the initiation of a school of forestry, and the general elevation of scholastic standards...
...year when Ruggiero played publicly for the first time in San Francisco, all who heard him marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring as conductor or composer, waved the baton. Ruggiero Ricci, nine-year-old violinist from San Francisco, astounded listeners with a marvelous playing of the Mendelssohn concerto. Like young Yehudi Menuhin, this new prodigy is a pupil of Louis Persinger...
...Manhattan this winter may be heard also the new Manhattan Symphony, under Conductor Henry Hadley; the Conductorless Orchestra; and the Friends of Music which will have for the first time its own orchestra under Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who will devote to it his full time...