Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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I have had a great number of you in my large classes and have enjoyed your friendly enthusiastic response. I have followed students from previous classes with much interest in their careers. I hope you will he as successful. 13e interested in what you do and have pride in your work. Excitement counts. Know where you are going. (lood luck in whatever you do. U c» £ £ CD u cd 26

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 A great American thinker, Justice Holmes, once wrote “The chief end of man is to frame general propositions. He meant by this that life can be made meaningful and tolerable only by the kind of thinking that can generalize from experience and provide, by means of these generalizations, a basis for judgement about individuals and about social and national perplexities. But Holmes did not stop there. “My fundamental formula, he wrote, “is that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.” This is merely an extreme way of saying that we must always have decent doubt about the products of our ratiocination and a willingness to modify them when new facts or altered circumstances make this necessary. Hegel had made the same point earlier, by arguing that the March of Thought is dependent upon the successive overcoming of useful generalizations by their modifications and that the March of Thought is merely another name for freedom and progress. If the class of 1979 bears this in mind, it will save itself a lot of trouble and serve the nation well. Robert Horn 25

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William Rivers There isn't any doubt in my mind that I speak for most of us of the older generation when I say with all my heart that I envy you the glorious experiences that lie ahead of you; the bright future that is in your power to build. (That sentence is stolden from Walter Cronkitc, who spoke here in 1976. Cron kite stole that sentence from Kay Lyman Wilbur, who also stole that from former President Herbert Hoover.) Because you have a future, I predict that you'll be happy for about two years. The third year 1 can already hear you say. thinking about Stanford, “I wanta go back to the Animal I louse. 27