Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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University Ideals K i H E sudden death oi Mrs. Stanford has conie as k a great shock to all of us. She has been so ]5ra e and strong that we hoped for her return well rested, and that her last look on earth might be on her beloved Palo Alto. But it was a joy to her to have been spared so long: to have lived to see the work of her husband ' s life and hers firmly and fully established. Hers has been a life of the most perfect de otion to her own and her husband ' s ideals. If in the years we knew her she ever liad a selfish feeling, no one ever detected it. All her thoughts were of the University and of the wav to make it effective for wisdom and righteousness. No one outside of the University can understand the difficulties in her way in the final establishment of the University, and her patient deeds of self-sacrifice can be known only to those who saw them from day to day. Some day the world may understand a part of this. It will then know her fnr the wisest, as well as the most generous, friend of learning in our time. It will know her as the most loyal and most devoted of wives. What she did was always the best she could do. Wise, devoted, steadfast, prudent, patient and just — every good word we can use was hers by right. The men and women of the University feel the loss not alone of the most generous of helpers, liut of the nearest of friends.

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TIlis hook, the twelfth volume of the Stamoui} Quad, is oftered to the siiidents and alumni of the University in the hope that it may prove to be a careful record of the past college year, — a record that is complete, interesting and artistically pre- pared. The difficulties attendant upon producing a volume which should impress Stanford readers with its completeness of detail, and yet lack the element of wearisomeness which seems to cling to statistics, were realized in the days when the book was but a troublesome dream, and as the college days drew on the ideal Quad. by its apparent remoteness of attainment, suggested a more conscientious effort and a more thorough appreciation of the purposes of a college annual. The events which it has been given us to chronicle here recall days of lights and shadows. Athletic victory has been ours, in debating we have been unusually successful, and the joy of the undergraduate in these things has been complete. The year has held its days of sorrow for us all. for since that memorable Wednes- day morning when the Quadrangle was suddenly hushed and still at the news of our mother ' s death, the joy in the outwa rd things of life has been silenced and the simple beauty of a good woman ' s soul has been impressed forever upon our hearts. These days of lights and shadows have been ours to record, and with what measure of success we have labored is for the readers of the book to judge. There have lieen but few important changes in the make-up of the volume. We have felt justified in enlarging the athletic department, and by a careful and more logical arrangement of engravings and copy have endeavored to give this field of student activities the prominence it deserves. The dramatic department, though it suffers in common with other sections of the book on account of the suspension of student activities in March, is given the usual space. The josh department has been enlarged only at the earnest request of scores of influential students and even prominent alumni. We have been careful to josh all those who wished the department enlarged, for we have felt that the Quad owes a duty to all its sub- scribers, not merely a favored few. The making of the book has been a long hard task. We have attempted originality in arrangement, accuracy in records and good taste in the art work and reading matter. The josh contributors have indulged in a little good natured fun. In so far as our efforts have succeeded the Class should be congratulated. .Any errors of judgment or good taste will be discussed only through the mails. BOARD OF EDITORS.

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To Ihcsc words siiokcn wlu-n tlu ' sliock of tlio dralh of tlir motluT of tlu ' riiivcTsity tlrsl faino to Iut cliildrni, 1 w i li to acid a siiii k- tlioui lil as to Mrs. Stanford ' s coiu-ci tion of ihi ' fiiltiro (k ' (.-loiiniciil of tin- riii (. ' rsil . It sliould hr al)o r all otlior things sound and i ' ood, nsiuL; ' its forces not for mental d(. ' (. ' loiinK ' nt aloni-, hut for physical, moral and S])iritiial s;ro vtli and strength. It sliould make not only schol- ars. l)ut men ami women, alert, fearless, wise, ( lod-fearint; ' , skilled in team work ami ea.L;er to sjet into the tjame, whatex ' cr the strut - fjle into which they may he thrown. To this end she would ha e the l ' ni -ersily not lar ;e hut choice. There should he no more stu- dents than could he well taken care of. no more departments than could he placed in master hands, no teachers to whom the students could not look up as to men whose work and life should he an inspiration to them. The huildings should be beautiful, for to see beautiful things in a land of beauty is one of the greatest elements in tlie refinement of clean men and women. Great libraries and great collections the University should have, but libraries and collections should be chosen for their fitness in the training of men. And with all the activities of athletics, of scholarly research, of the applications of science to engineering, the spirit of self-devotion and of self-restraint. by which lives have been made beautiful and sweet through all the centuries should rise above all else, dom- inating the lower aspirations and activities as the great church towers above the red tiles of the lower buildings. But for all this, the Church should exist for men — for the actual men who enter its actual doors — not men for the church. For this reason, any special alliance with any of the historic churches of Christendom is forever forbidden. We do not yet see all these things. Rome was not built in a day, nor Stanford in a century. Hut as the old pioneers returning now behold in solid stone the dream-castles of their college days, so shall you, Stanford men and women, find here as you come back to future reunions, the University of your dreams, the University of great libraries and noble teachers, the University of the perfect democracy of literature and science, of self-devotion and of self- restraint, the University in which earnest men and women find the best possible preparation for work in life, the University which sends out men who will make the future of the republic worthy of the glories of its past, the University of the plans and hopes of Leland Stanford, the University of the faith and work and prayer of Jane Lathrop Stanford. David Staur Jordan. 13