Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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FOREWORD THE WORTH OF a university may be measured with many yardsticks. It may be noted for its athletes, an outstanding de- partment, its geniuses, its book writers. At Stanford there is no one measure. It does not excel in a single field, but year after year turns out well-rounded personalities. Stanford men and women are livable. They wear well. Conservative, as a whole, but well versed in the art of living. We hope that this book reflects this attitude. We would have it readable, not as a brilliant novel, but plain and simple, as an old legend. Its cover, too, was selected with the thought that ten years hence it would still grace one ' s library fittingly. A college year book is often the only album one has of his last school days, the only record of, perhaps, the most eventful years of his life. Life-long friendships that started in dormitories; the one girl or boy was met in such familiar places as the Libe, the Quad, the Cellar. So it is with a somewhat wistful reverence that we complete the book and see that it is bound. For we know that the book is not made of paper and ink but of life and memories. And in binding it we seal within it a part of ourselves.