Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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Presidfiit David Starr Jordan

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I believe in sound educatinn, in knowing things as thev really are, for what reall v is is the work (if the highest powers. I believe in the rigid methods of science, and in the gentler methods of art, liy which we are led through that which we love to that which is true. ' hatever we care for is a means of grace, the fine old phrase the preachers once used, but which we can take for wdiatever influence of nature or of art tends to make us gentler, more enthusi- astic, more tolerant or nmre sincere. I believe in fair play among men and hence in the endless struggle against precedence and privileg ' e which we call democracy. 1 belie ' e in the ])eii|)le ' s side. This is the people ' s country and it is for them to be wise enough and just enough to hold their own against all tyranny of organized interests or of organized ignorance. And the final outcome depends on the individual. If b} ' nature and education the average man is a good citizen, the republic will grdw stronger with each generation. P.ut if the individual cannot hdld his own by courage, character and intelligence he will Iniihl up new tvrannies against wdiich the furnis of freedom will be nf little avail. Slaverv has its source within, nm without. And as fair plav anmng men is necessary to the stability ot societv so is fair plav anmng nations to the staliility ot civilizaticm. It always pays for a naticm to be a gentleman, is a tine |ihrase of Air. Roosevelt. And as gentlemen in America ha e ])ut aside the |iisl(il ami llie duel, so must the arnn ami the warship anish in the relatinns nt nations. .-Xlready the penple nf the world ha e come to understand- ings among themselves. W ar and war preparation are but remains of an e il habit. Xnthing liap])ens in an instant in the great world of men. but we can look fcirwarel to the end of war and ot all tornis of organized robbery, the chief motive of war. As the coat of mail anisheil from Kin-opean history, almost o -er night, so will the soldier and the warship anish. when all men see as clearly as you and 1 see nnw the wild insensate folly of it all. D.WID STARR |(JRD. X. 14