Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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C01U'IE1U'I S V BOOK ONE AMWNBHMTMN V BOOK TWO CL14SS1?S V BOOK THREE THE YEAR V BOOK FOUR ATHLETICS T BOOK FIVE ORGANIZATION .- T' BOOK SIX RAZZ V

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n mit ly xv uf I lull u .1 an . . . who for the past eight years has been Stanford's president, is now on a leave of absence from the University, having accepted the post of Secretary of the Interior in the Hoover Cabinet. Under Dr. Wilbur's capable and far-sighted leadership the University has grown and strengthened, and particular progress has been made in the scientific- fields and in graduate work A .... Our University is passing out of the period of its youth into one of early maturity. A pioneer graduate is President of our country, and we have many present-day student sons and daughters of Stanford parents. Our western civilization is changing and growing and becoming more stabilized. Certain types of leadership are coming our way due to the initiative of the West 'and the freedom from traditional thinking. 1 With the Pacific era just ahead, Stanford has great days before it if it can retain that elasticity and enthusiasm mixed with solid and practical ideals which have been characteristic of it up to now. A Just nowwe are in the midst of a ground swell in university education which is felt first in California, but which will soon be nation-wide. The rapid extension of the high school system upward has encroached on the so-called college, bisecting it and compelling new thinking and new educational methods for every uni- versity department. 1 If Stanford should decide to reach back into the high school of today and take over the last two years in order to teach elementary subjects and provide certain social experiences for the pupils, it would seem grotesque. In ten years it will seem just as much so if Stanford is doing elementary teaching--duplicating the junior col- lege. Fortunate indeed is it that Stanford must pioneer and lead in many ways. Life is a constant experiment. The experimental method is the life of a university. New models require much work and are per- haps expensive, but they operate better and mean progress. Stanford's prestige is high, its plans promising, its friends growing, its alumni expand- ing, its students earnest and loyal. If we can keep on our course, our opportunities are such that we can accomplish worthwhile results. -