Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Stanford I ' l ' l- J ood ones, aiul of those never so many as to embarrass the finances Quad of the University. Tlie l nit ion is free ; the cost of Hving is kept as low 1904 as possible. The young- man or woman who pays his or her way by work k ises no social standing by the necessity for efifort. On the other hanck the one who struggles and succeeds is more highly esteemed than one who has never had to struggle. ' America means opportunity. ' Dem- ocracy means opportunity, and Stanford University holds its place as an institution most ty])ical of American Democracy. ' Free should the scholar be, free and brave, ' and from Stanford University has gone forth a generation of scholars. (The rest of this report referred to the eiTorts of different indi- viduals, the founders, and the workers of earlier and later years ; also to minor matters, such as investments, salaries, funds, etc. It is there- fore omitted.) David Starr Jordan. i8

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been completed, and the following new departments have been one by Stanford one added to the Undergraduate College : Horticulture, Geography, Quad Architecture, Naval Engineering, Ethnology, and Palceography. Each 1904 of these is now well housed and properly equipped w ith apparatus and material for its work. ( )n the side of the languages, instruction is now provided in Semitics, in Scandanavian, and in the history and literature of our nearest neighbor, the Empire of Japan. With this great nation, so old and so new, Stanford University stands in the closest relations, and through Japan she already wields a large influence on the still older and still newer Empire of China. A form of research of the greatest practical value is found in the experimental farm of horticulture, where, under the direction of a master in this ancient art, a hundred students are busily engaged in the creation of new fruits, flowers, and grains bv the processes of hybridization and selection. The famous ' INIendelian Law, which attracted such attention ten years ago, has been put here to a thorough practical test. The additions to our knowledge of animal and plant life which have resulted from the experiments in the horticultural farm, the botanic garden, and the breeding insectary, have been notable among the discoveries of the century. Of great value, though attract- ing less attention, have been the explorations of the islands of the Pacific, with the discoveries in Ethnology, Geology, Botany, and Zool- ogy which have resulted from them. The work of advanced investigation has been from the first recog- nized as the highest function of the University. In its pioneer years, the institution stood in the front rank in this regard. During the unfor- tunate years of litigation, while hampered in many ways, with few books and scanty appliances, the pioneer professors gave the I niversity a most worthy reputation for scholarly research. This reputation has been amply sustained and nobly advanced under the most favorable conditions of the last decade. Since 1905, when the University began her own series of publications, with the great Chaucer Dictionary of Dr. Fliigel, no other educational institution in America has produced so worthy a series of monuments of scholarship as have been wrought at Stanford. The number of students is not greatly increased in the last ten years, for it has become the settled policy of this institution to undertake nothing which it can not do in the best possible way. Not many students 17

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Baccalaureate Hymn Stanford Quad 1904 Lo, now the fleets are gathered, the new spring breeze runs free, To-day the shore and love and song — to-morrow for the sea ; For the five wide oceans beckon and the winds of the trader blow ; The ghosts of your fate they beckon, and the voyagers gather and go. Thou Captain of the flying sails, thou Eye that seest far, Thou Pilot, though the long course run high as the picket-star, Thou who hast heard our murmurs as we faltered on the way, Grace yet again for all of these that sail the seas to-day. For the fool that never sought thee, for the fool that held apart, The fool that marred thine image, and the fool that shut his heart; Thou knowest, Lord, how weak we are, how low and poor our way. But guide their course in havens safe who sail the seas to-day. For Thou hast seen us, Captain, when we drank the wells of truth, When we called unto the Giver out of groping, sightless youth. When soul to soul we spoke alone, when the tides of life welled up, And sparkling clear the new, sweet wine rose brimming in the cup. Thine was the longing all divine that filled the least of these When from this sheltered cove he saw the course across the seas. And strong in youth the least of these rises and goes to-day, Sure, though he never knew Thee, that Thou guidest on the way. Song of the fide in the sliallozvs, and glint of the z ' aves in the sun. And the sail szcells out and the sea-birds cry, and the rest in the harbor is done. For the zcide, zvhite oceans beckon, and the zi ' inds of the trader blozi. ' , The gliosis of your fate they beckon — and it ' s time that the children go. —Will H. Irzcnii. 19