Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Presidfiit David Starr Jordan

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FOUNDERS l.cUnb tanforb 3nnr Hattjiop tanforb BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr. FRANK BARTOW ANDERSON . Mr. WILLIAM BABCCCK . The Hon. HORACE DAVIS, LL.D. Mr. CHARLES PARMELEE EELLS, A.B. Mr. JOSEPH DONOHOE GRANT. A.B. Mr. HERBERT CLARK HOOVER, A.B. Mr. TIMOTHY HOPKINS . Mr. CHARLES GARDNER LATHROP The Hon. SAMUEL FRANKLIN LEIB . Mr. FRANK MILLER Mr. WILLIAM MAYO NEWHALL. B.S. Mr. JAMES LEROY NICKEL . Mr. LEON SLOSS .... Mr. THOMAS WELTON STANFORD . Mr. VANDERLYNN STOW. A.B. San Francisco . San Rafael San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Menlo Park Stanford L ' niversr p San Jose Berkeley San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Melbourne, Australia San Francisco OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr. TIMOTHY ' HOPKINS President Mr. CHARLES PARMELEE EELLS, A.B. . Vice-President Mr. CHARLES GARDNER LATHROP, Treasurer and Business Manager Mr. VANDERLYNN STOW, A.B. Assistant Treasurer Mr. WILLIAM EMERY CALDWELL. A.B. . . . Secretarx •Died .June 21. 18U3. tDied February 28. lHOa.

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A CONFESSION OF FAITH I am interested in a threat many matters of good living ' and of good government. I do not Ijelieve in waste, either of men or money or lualtli, and so, I have used vhate er influence I have in behalf of peace, in behalf of national economy and national conserxa- tion. and in behalf of clean and wholesome living among men. Xo man can accomjilish much that is worth while if he burns his candle at both ends. And he must not burn it too long at cither end if he expects it to last through the game of life. . nd now when my candle is fading a little. I am trving to use its light for those things that seem to me best worth while. . nd of those that come near me, three stand out as all im])ortant. These are clean living, sound education, and fair play between men and between nations. o one man can accomplish very much in the world. All that is worth while is the work of thousands, each gen- eration entering into the efforts of the others. And no one man can do anything worth while unless he does his best. And to do his best he must have all his strength. Every evil habit great or small takes away so much of our force for action. The worst enemies we have to fight are those within us. And by the same token, there ' is no victory so satisfying as a conquest of the evil within. To have the enemy all to oursehes where we can get at him. fight him. jump on him and throw him out gives us every satisfaction, if we succeed at last. If we do not, we drift into the stream among the deadwood of nonentities, whose service to the world does not pay for their keep. This fight falls to the lot of all of us, for we are all human, and to win is character Ijuilding. And the strength we gain through self-conquest,- self-denial and self-restraint, we can use against the evil horde outside, those who coin money from man ' s weaknesses. lU ' cause to be clean is to bt; strong, because every drug which touches the nervous system cuts the nerve of power. I am pro- foundly interested in helping to train young men to be sober and ]iure. 13