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Professor Arthur Twining Hadley, was inaugurated President of Yale yesterday afternoon. The innovations introduced in the ceremonies were in accord with the departure from tradition in the selection of a layman to fill the presidential office. The Latin oration, which has been pronounced at every previous inauguration, was omitted this year, and in its stead a chorus of one hundred Yale undergraduates, accompanied by a symphony orchestra of fifty pieces, was introduced. The exercises, which were very simple, consisted of a march to the chapel, where the inauguration oath was administered by the Reverend Joseph H. Twitchell, an address...
When the guests had entered the chapel, the LXV Psalm was sung followed by Luther's hymn, "Ein Feste Burg," both of which have been sung at every inauguration in Yale's history. The inauguration exercises opened with prayer by Dr. Dwight, after which the formal inauguration of President Hadley took place. Dr. Twitchell's address was extemporaneous, consisting of a few simple remarks...
Professor Hadley's inaugural address followed. He spoke at length on some of the problems which Yale is now facing, touching on the development of professional schools as the first of the disturbing elements in college education; the elective system and its tendency to obscure the spirit of democracy; and declared the central problem to be, how to make the educational system meet the world's demands for progress on the intellectual side, without endangering the most valuable growth on the moral side...
Professor Hadley's cabinet was completed yesterday by the election of F. Tyler to be university treasurer, in place of W. W. Farnam, who has held the office for eleven years, practically during the whole of President Dwight's administration...
These divisions will proceed to Battell Chapel and will enter simultaneously by the four entrances. J.H. Twichell, Yale '59, as senior member of the Corporation, will deliver the oath of office. After the ceremonies have been finished and President Hadley has delivered his inaugural address, the guests will go to the Art School, where President Hadley will hold a reception...