Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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Stanford Quad 1904 iPTfTC Traditions After Twenty Years HE several thousand iM-cshmen of A. D. 1891 who were denied the good fortune of being admitted to Stanford University did not differ very much, considered as the raw material of human beings, from the luckv Four Hundred who were welcomed to the untrodden corri- dors and fascinating arcades of the Inner Quadrangle, and to the candle-lighted recesses of Encina and Roble, during those never-to-be-forgotten natal days. The applicants who knocked at the doors of Stanford, of JNIichigan, of Cornell, even of Harvard, ])resented essentially the same combination of awestruck, moonstruck, tongue-tied sensibilitv, of buov- ant optimism, of the pure wine of ambition, of self-reliance, of preter- natural sophistication. H there were dift ' erences these favored Stan- ford in the matter of general competency and practical equipment at the expense of rigid school training. Stanford Chemistry was certainly very like Harvard Chemistry, and there was at Palo Alto no speciallv trade-marked History, or Latin, or Engineering. But here likeness ceases. Not longer than a day or two was the Harvard Freshman permitted to remain under the delusion that the earth was his and he its center. Verv shortlv and verv devoutlv he