Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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gf? XX-4. The Exposition and Stanford in 1915

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LAGUNITA HAS A CHARM ALL ITS OWN

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THE STANFORD QU.-xn A Shimmering Pathway The Scintillating Fan From the East 34 -The Exposition Year By Orls lfl. CASTLE Nineteen-iifteen, the Ex- position Classf' Four years ago an epigramatie Sequoia contributor pinned this label to the entering class. Even before that touring San Franciscans were registering at hotels in New York and Nagasaki, Peoria and Petro- grad-to-be as John Smith and wife. 19155 and not a Jap or a Cossack but translated 19l5 into San Francisco and knew john Smith and wife for citizens of no mean city. Thus early did a great event throw its shadow be- foreg and for years Stanford has lived in this shadow. Now the Event has come, not, how- ever, in shadow, but in light: and every evening on the Farm we may go to our win- dows and see to the north- ward the light, an artificial aurora borealis, a permanent Midnight Sun. Actually and symbolically the essence of the Exposition is light. It is at once the Lamp of Learning and the Great White 'Wayg it is man with his dynamos shaming the moon and making for himself a place in the sun. The soft color scheme of Jules Guerin and the epoch mark- ing lighting effects are coni- plementary. The great bat- tery of searchlights and the 3,600,000,000 cancllepower scintillator now bathe the