University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Yale Ideals BY PRESIDENT HADLEV, OF YALE UNIVERSITY What are the things that Yale stands for? First and foremost, in com- mon with every other college and university worthy of the name, Yale stands for the pursuit of truth. Xo school or group of schools, however brilliant, would deserve to be called a university if it simply taught its students how to earn as large fees as possible in their several callings. It must in- spire them with a higher ideal and a deeper motive. It must make them crave to see things as they really are and to do things as they really ought to be done ; to make truth and right the objects of a man ' s effort, instead of sub- ordinating them to the pursuit of money, pleasure, or power. These are the ideas which underlie all good college teaching, in science and in history, in poetry and in philosophy, in morals and in religion. Yale also, in common with other universities, stands for breadth of culture ; for a wide view of life and of what life means. The man who goes to college has the leisure to know many kinds of men and to study many kinds of things. If he uses this leisure badly it results in mere dissipation, physical or mental as the case may be. But if he uses it rightly and in our American colleges the great majority of students are helped to use it rightly it means culture. Culture is essentially a power to enjoy the best things in life on as many different lines as possible, instead of confining our interests to a narrow range of things which are immediately before our eyes. Some of this power of enjoyment is learned in the class-room itself. ' Some is learned by 1 PRESIDENT RADLEY