Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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President David Starr jordan

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF STANFORD CCASIONALLY in reminiscent mood, we, old-timers, refer to the days from 1891 to 1895 as the Golden Age of the Univer- sity. But when we settle down to historic accuracy. we know that the Golden Age of Stanford is now. The Golden Age of any University is that time when every man and every woman who enters it is the better, morally as well as intellectually and physically for coming. We believe that this is true to-day at Stanford. We know that it was not true in the line warm-hearted youthful days when the University had no rules and was controlled by moral suasion. There may be Universities in which it is still not true. It may be that they will meet their problems in some other wayg but we shall solve ours in our own fashion. Student Control as we understand it at Stanford, seems to us, a crystallization of this Golden Age. It does not mean that moral or intellectual fashions are set by immature youth. The Faculty is here to set standards of living as well as of thinking. It does not mean merely that the students will vote on matters which concern their various activities. It does not stop at a pledge from the students that they will cut out their own delinquents and delinquen- cies. Its essence is the realizatiion that the highest ideals of student life their teachers can set before them have been understood and loyally accepted. It is a guarantee that in this golden age, and in all that has made it golden, the Student Body is an active and integral part. The students of to-day Hx the traditions of to-morrow: The students of to-day are the alumni of to-morrow. On their shoulders rests the welfare of the University. It is for them to say how long the Golden Age shall endure. DAVID STARR JORDAN.