The father of Arthur Twining Hadley, now president of Yale, was
Professor James Hadley, a Yale graduate of 1842. He was a tutor at
Yale three years, and, in 1857, he took President Woolsey’s place as
professor of Greek. This place he held until his death, in 1872. His
mother was Ann Twining, an intellectual woman, who completed the full
Yale course in mathematics before the days of the “new woman.” Thus,
young Hadley was, as Oliver Wendell Holmes might say, “fortunate in
the choice of his parents.” He first saw the light at New Haven, April
23, 1856. Becoming a Yale graduate, in 1876, he was the valedictorian
of his class. He spent some years in Berlin, and became a tutor in
1879, a lecturer at Yale (and Harvard) on political science in 1883,
and a professor in 1886. He had also done journalistic work on several
newspapers. His work on “Railway legislation” has been translated
into French and German, and twice into Russian. He made two reports
as commissioner of labor statistics for Connecticut, in 1885 and
1886. He wrote, at the Harpers’ solicitation, the article on “Yale”
in their well-known volume, “Four Universities.” In 1891 he married
Helen Harrison, daughter of Governor Luzon B. Morris, of Connecticut.
President Hadley is the ideal educator, learned, sympathetic,
progressive and possessing an intimate acquaintance with the details
and duties of his onerous position.