Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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EDITORIAL. UST as our fathers and grandfathers in the days of ’49 carved kf out settlements with vigor and energy, to prepare the way for those that were to follow, so a body of students, in the days of ’91, broke the ground near Palo Alto to form a new settlement peculiar in itself; for it was to be a college settlement. The men of ’49 will pass down through the history of California with the noble epithet of Pioneer engraved with their memories. It has been the happy lot of the Class of ’95 to be so associated with the establishment of this institution as to be placed upon the records of the Leland Stanford Junior University as the class to receive first the benefit of a full four years’ course, and bear the proud name of Pioneer. By a singular coincidence, the three former classes having deemed themselves unable, on account of numbers, to undertake such an enterprise, there devolved upon this same class the pleasant though arduous task of publishing the first college annual. The publication fills a peculiar place in college life. It calls forth resources which no other college publication can affect. It combines in one volume a complete •record of University affairs, literary, social, and athletic, connected by the best artistic sense of the University. This publication has been christened The Stanford Quad (the plan on which the University is built). The name was chosen : firstly, because it is peculiar to this institution only ; secondly, for its snap and vigor,—a marked characteristic of the University ; thirdly, because in it is embodied the nucleus of the University settlement and sentiment,—the quadrangle. Of the phenomenal development and success of the University, in every endeavor, we shall say nothing more than to direct a careful perusal of the records given in this book. In publishing the first volume of The Stanford Quad, the editors have labored under many disadvantages, obvious to all. If we can but present a happy remembrance of the peculiar and unique incidents of the first years at Stanford, we may feel assured that the sympathetic nature of every' collegian will pardon the faults of this volume. 10