Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Stanford Quad 1904 A Castle m Spain HERE stands a castle in the heart ofiSpain, Builded of stone, as if to stand for aye, With tile-roof red against the azure sky ; And skies are bluest in the heart of Spain. Castle so stately men build not again ; ' Neath its broad arches, in its patio fair. And through its cloisters, open everywhere, 1 wander as I will, m sun or rain. Its inmost secret unto me is known. For mine the castle is. Nor mine alone, — Tis thine, O Love, to have and hold alway ; Tis all the world ' s as well as mine and thine ; For whoso enters its broad gates shall say : I dwell wathin this castle ; it is mine. David Starr Jordan.

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Foreword Stanford Quad 1904 lEN in tlie beginning A. Lewis, Jr., ' 95, made the first Quad lie ga e this explanation of its name : It was chosen, first, )ecanse it is peculiar to this institution only ; secondly, for its nap and vigor, — a marked characteristic of the University; thirdly, because in it is embodied the nucleus of the University ' ettlement and sentiment. — the Quadrangle. In the middle years, Chris Bradley, ' 99, who made the fifth Quad upon the fashion plate of the first, said at the conclusion of it : It is with a great pang of pleasure that we lay aside the iiisintiiienta opcris, the proof sheet, the blue pencil and paste stick. We now have time to sympathize with those who have gone before, and to pity those who shall come after. The public we can only tell to do what we know will be done. Take the book, that is, — buy it, look through it, or at least part of the way, and then come and arrange yourselves artistically upon our neck. It is our reward. We expect it of you. That was in ' 98. In these days the official custodians of the shears and pastepot, find so rich an inheritance of ideas from Lewis and Bradley and the other editors, that they feel that the day for originality in Quad making is over. Each book has had its predecessor for a model, and each editor according to his tastes has emphasized the art, or josh, or literary, or statistics features. Last year Mr. Renaud developed the art feature as far as it is practicable for an under- graduate body to carry it. The year before Miss McDougald ' s book contained a remarkable collection of literary productions. This year the Board has attempted no special development along any particular line. A careful examination of the year books of other colleges shows that in the larger and older institutions the annuals are mere records of the year ' s activities, consisting mostly of statistics and comparisons of present records with those of previous years. The literary competitions are left to the literary magazine, and the humorous record of pass- ing joshes is left to the college funny paper. The Sequoia and Chaparral are perhaps sufficiently well established now to eliminate the literary contests from future annuals, and to greatly restrict the josh field. In keeping with this idea the present editors have republished several of the most successful features of our college papers, and have developed the statistics until they give a complete record from the beginning to the present. The special articles of Dr. Jordan, Dr. Elliott, Dr. Angell, Prof. Newcomer, Will Irwin, 99, Everett Smith, ' 99, Bristow Adams, ' 01, and Dane Coolidge, ' 98, give us a comprehension of Stanford ' s early life, and the possibilities of its future, that cannot be gleaned from mere statistics. It seemed fitting that we who are commencing a second decade, should glance thus carefully over what has gone before. It makes for a better realization of the spirit of the place and a deeper love of the privilege of being here in the days of ' 04. That ' s our feeling in the matter. Those who are pleased will kindly thank the contributors. To others the Board will be at home in the tall timber behind Frenchman ' s Cave on alternate Januaries.

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Stanford Quad 1904 When Stanford Becomes of Age Synopsis of a Report of the Alumnus Trustee on the Conditions of the Lelana Stajford Junior University, June i, igi2. [tie present writer had the fortune to he a member of the Pioneer Class of Cornell University. Twenty-one years later it was his duty as a trustee elected by the alumni to prepare a report on the progress of the institution in that time. Stanford University, also, will some time reach the age of legal maturity. When it is twenty-one, doubtless some one of the old pioneers will be on its Board of Trus- tees and will write its history and future needs. The history of the first eleven years of our University, years of love and toil and hope and sacrifice, years of the growth of the Stanford spirit, we all know more or less well. Some day most of us will come to understand it better, but this is not the time nor the place to give the details •hich the world does not know. For the rest, let the Alumnus Trustee tell his story, which we shall here greatly abridge, cutting down his rhetorical periods to the bare recital of the salient facts, and omitting all his references — doubtless very kindly — to the individual persons concerned in the University development. Now for the report of the Alumnus Trustee of Stanford University in 1912: The Twentieth Century, ' he said, bids fair to be known as the era of University-building, as the Thirteenth Century long before was the era of Cathedral-building. Already the larger universities of Amer- ica are surpassing those of the Old World in beauty, in wealth, and in facilities for work. This arises in large degree from the spirit of demo- 13