Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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these lines will need to be reminded of Dr. Jordan's originality of thought and expression. His spoken or written word seems always to have the entire weight of the man's character' behind itg it has always the racy freshness of the man's genius as well. Take an idea of your own to him, or one that you have picked up in reading, and he will at once set it in unexpected lights, link it with other ideas, making it thus reach out far upon all sides, and put it into illuminating phrase. Even a quotation becomes his in the quoting g like Moliere, he can take what belongs to him wherever he finds it. It is through this power of assimilation, as well as by virtue of his spontaneity, his grasp, his knowledge, his sweep of mental vision, that he is one of the most suggestive of teachers. The style is also in his case e'mphatiCa11y of the man. People sometimes complain that in his lectures he sets all the recognized laws of public speaking at defiance 3 but how many of us would have him on the platform or in the class-room other than just as he is ? And when once you have heard him lecture, his Writing seems to be every Whit as immediate and personal as his speech. Every paragraph from his pen, With its simplicity, verility, terseness and directness, bears the sign-manual of the writer. Outsiders are not alittle puzzled by Dr. Jordan's reticence, and one often hears him described as unapproachable, sphynx-like, a man not easy to fathom or understand. Strangers watch his face in repose, mark its massive intellectuality, and pronounce him distant, unemotional. This is quite explicable. Dr. Jordan has his reserves ,'i16 frequently suggests to us the sage who was silent in seven languages. He is not cut out for what is ordinarily called social success. He has no ready command of 'small talk g and among the formalities of conventional intercourse he is apt, as one may note, to withdraw into himself. But We who see him at closer quarters, in the varied cirumstances of our college life, understand how large and Warm is the heart that beats beneath the calm and impassive exterior that he commonly turns to the world. We have learned to appreciate his manly simplicity, his kindliness, his geniality, we have learned to love, too, his quaint and delightful humor, his boyish enjoyment of little things. He is fond of saying- and the thought is illustrative of his whole conception of education-that it is men, not books or buildings, that make the great University. Those who stand without our circle will recognize the enormous power his personality has had in the making of our great institution. But We who are Within that circle, while We understand this, know also, as others cannot, the hold he has upon the affections of all who in any way are Working for the higher life of the world under his guidance and leadership. WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON.

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Q1 7 I 7 fo, . . , ft' f - . ' 'ig' Z2 . I o . Z gg, y ff, f 1 . ' f k I ,Hu - 'Nu ..... a f ,. . f , .9 pf 0,6 l Z . I Wi' Z .-.--- X 4r42'4,w--'rs4 'sf f .1 1 f -12 55's-4 if - I f ,M 1 .... .. 4, -. ..., gina- I n ,.-- 1 ' 5:52559 ' ,, 1 W ,g , '- V- ,, i - - OWWW 5:3-f: .-:HQ-.:a.,' ., f'- ' f' ' 'L- - lain , .- ' ' --ri - ma fx, .an fArranged in groups in the order of seniority of appointmentj DAVID STARR JORDAN, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University. 1YdZ77li7Z House, Serm Ave. GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History. Cambridge, Ilfass. JOHN CASPER BRANNER, Ph.D., Professor of Geology. 28 Alvczrado Row. OLIVER PEEBLES JENKINS, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Physi- ology and Histologyu C6'd1'0 505086- XJOHN HENRY COMSTOCK, B.S., Professor of Entomology. Iflzafa, N K MELVILLE BEST ANDERSON, A.M., Professor of English Literature. Jlfenlo Park. JOHN MAXSON STILLMAN, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry. 2 Alvarado Row. FERNANDO SANFORD, M.S., Professor of Physics. - Palo Alto. CHARLES DAVID MARX, C.E., Professor of Civil Engineering. Palo Alto. ERNEST MoNDELL PEASE, A.M., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 6 Alvarado Row. CHARLES HENRY GILBERT, M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Zoology. Palo Alto. DOUGLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL, Ph.D., Professor of Botany. 33 Alvarado Row. 4' Absent during 1897-98. 13