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DAVID STARR JORDAN As her first prcsiJciit, lie [ ' iwillicJ Ii l iiilo Stiiiiforil Uinixrsity. As an educator, u hroucj t her to the heights. Asa .scicnlust, he let his light rejleet the University ' s glory. As a tliuilccr, he encouraged independent iiiiiui.s. J [ot only for this, hut heeause his ideals mil iilu ' a) ' 5 suyI} ' lii)- iiJinuiistmtu ' ii and his sprit touch every Stanford heart, do lic dedicate this section to him.
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1 Ml! 11 DAVID STARR JORDAN J. ' til.iii uds ii Iirt ' liv rui.J.T YOU do not wish from me the story of the life of David Starr Jordan. That story, told as no other man could tell it, you will find in that interesting autobiography known to every well-informed lover of Stanford. There you will learn that he was born at the opening of the second half of the nineteenth century in western Nev ' lOrk, that there, in the open spaces of an upland country , he grew to manhood in a tmie when, more than ever before, men were turning to science, that he was a student and lover of nature, and that his personality was colored by a strain of poetry. When he entered college, so we are told by one who knew him throughout most of his lite, he became the leader of his group because of his buoyant temperament, his intellectual keenness, his irrepressible energy, his good-fellowship, and complete masterv of himself. Nine years of teaching m high school and college, and study m many parts of the country, in field and forest, in river, lake, and ocean, followed graduation; and then, in 1881 , he became president of the University of Indiana. There he was, in his fortieth year and at the summit of his powers, when the summons to Stanford came. (! The name of David Starr [ordan called to youth like the notes of a bugle at the opening and in the early years of Stanford. His enthusi- J asm, his kindly humanity, the fire of his creative energy, were highl - ■ stimulating and contagious. He was the intellectual and spiritual H V founder of the University, giving to it life and purpose, making it a PfK , m leader in the progressive activities of the state and, indeed, of the SHI nation. Vividly I recall the first lecture 1 ever heard him deliver •■Dav( |oRn. N— PiiJki Given in what is now the Little Theater, its theme was the alue of higher education. To turn from the petty troubles of the da ' to the thoughts of the masters, he told the students, is to go from the noise of the street through the door of a cathedral. If you learn to unlock these portals, no power on earth can take from you the key. The whole of your life must be spent in your own company, and only the educated man is good company for himself. The uneducated man looks out on life through narrow windows and thinks the world is small. ' I can still hear him pleading with his youthful listeners, on that moonlight night in Septem- ber, forty ) ' ears ago, not to heed those v ' ho would discourage them. It is possible, he declared, forany ambitious youth to fulfill his dream, for the world will stand aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is go- ing. His manner of speaking was of a kind I had never heard before, Minple, direct, intelligent, sincere, and at times intrinsically eloquent. .As.SMiiiorJ ' s ImJit. isw) i 30
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