The record-union., 1891-10-02


In after life you may be failures. Or, you may
60 from here fully equipped to make your
way through life with happiness to yourselves
and benefit to humanity. All that we can do for
you is to place the opportunities within your
reach; it rests with you to grasp and improve
them. Remember that life is above all, practi-
cal; that you are here to fit yourselves for use
1ui career. Also, that learning should not only
make you wise in the arts and sciences, but
should fully develop your moral and religious
natures. The humanizing influences come
nom proper understanding of the rights of
man and his duties to his Creator. With full
appreciation of these he will comprehend and
have developed in him the active principles OF
religion, TO wit: benevolcnce, liberation, kind
ness, patience, forbearance and q hopeful re-
gard for the general interests of his fellow
creatures, with charity that will reach every
condition OF life.
You, students, are the most important
factor i'll this university. It is for your bene-
fit that it has been established. We hope and
to this fact.
TO you our hearts go out especially, and in
each Individual stadcnt we feel IL palernal in
terest. We want you all to be not only Il
credit to the university, but also a credit to
yourselves. How to succeed in this il is for
you, with the precepts and examples of your
professors, to discover, and as q foundation for
the whole sGpcTstructure we would suggest 10
each young man and young woman TO bear in
mind the admonitou of tie wise king: RE
member now thy Creator in the days Of thy
youth"
FURTHER ADDRESSES.
Judge James Mcmillan Shafter one Of
the trustees OF the university, then de-
iiveTed an able address, i'll which he
warmly commended Senator Stanford for
establishing the equality of the sexes in
the university. Then came Mendels-
sohn's "How Lovely Are the Messen-
gers" eXquisitely y sung By the choir.
President Jordan Tes.ti Il cOngratulatOry
telegram from Rev. Horatio Stebbens,
and then introduced Professor Martin
Kellogg, President Of the University of
California, who spoke in the most pleas
ing manner III regard TO the new educa-
uonal institution. He spoke especially
of the beginnings Of higher education in
this State, and said that they who first
labored for this good and fang out the
banners of science and letters already re-
joice III the triumph Of their cause, and
extend hearty greeting to their new CO.
adjutors. They feel stronger confidence
that California is not to fall below its
splendid possibilities. lie greeted the
assembled students, and commented
upon the fact that III this State going TO
college is moi ''fad''-it was the sacred
thirst for learning that took boys there.
President Jordan then delivered an elO-
quent address:
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY.
The President of the University. David
| Starr Jordan, IL. D., then delivered an
teachers
and pupils in the first year to lay the
foundations of school to last as long as
civilization. Though the youngest, the
university is heir to the wisdom of all
ages; its finger posts all point forward.
The power OF precedent will cause all it
does to be repeated over and over again,
errors as well as wisdom. hence the teach
ers and students should work as under the
eye of coming ages, and lay foundations
broad and firm to support whatever edi-
flee the future may build. Unless the
work of the university is wrought III a
sad sincerity nothing can redeem it from
failure. Continuing, he said that the
hope is to give the students the priceless
legacy of the educated man, the power of
knowing what really is; the higher edu-
cation that brings men into direct contact
with the truth; that enables men to form
opinions worthy OF the new evidence each
new Gay brings before them.
Every influence of the university
should emphasize the value of truth. The
scholar must have faith, said Professor
Jordan, in truth as truth, faith that there
is power in the universe good enough
to make truth-telling safe, and strong
enough to make truth-telling effective.
The value of right-living, he said, can
be taught by right examples. The
teacher, as said Professor Bryan, is the
| accredited delegate of civilization.
If virtue and integrity are to be
propagated they must be propagated by
people who possess them.
Professor Jordan expressed the hope
that the new school might do its part in
the work of civilization, side by side with
its elder sister, the University of the State,
and in perfect harmony with every
agency which makes for right thinking
and right living.
Referring to the aim of the university,
he said
''If our work is successful, our ideals
will appear in the daily life of the school.
In a school, as in fortress, it is not the
form of the building, but the strength of
the materials which determines its effect
iveness. Whatever its form, or its organ
ization, or its pretensions, the character
OF the university is fixed by the men who
teach.'
He believed that professor to whom
original investigation is unknown should
have no place in university. Men Of
commonplace or secondhand scholar
ship are of necessity men of low ideals,
however much the fact may be dis
guised.
Above and beyond all learning, said
the speaker, is the subtle influence of
character, the impulse to virtue and piety
which comes from men whose lives show
that virtue and piety really exist. Every
advance which we make toward the reali-
zation OF the truth of the permanence
and imminence of law, brings us nearer
to Him who is the great first cause of all
law and all phenomena.
Beauty and fitness are great forces in
education. Every object with which the
young mind comes in contact leaves on it
its trace. Nothing is unimportanti in the
life of man, and the least feature of our
surroundings has its influence, greater or
less. A dollar in university, Emerson
tells us, is worth more than dollar in
Jail, and every dollar spent in making a
university beautiful will be repaid with
interest in the enriching of the students
lives.
ut has been reproach of America that
for the best of her sons and daughters she
has done the least. She has built palaces
for iunatics, idiots, crippled and blind
nay, even for criminals and paupers.
But the college students, the young men
OF sound mind and earnest purpose, the
noblest treasures of the State to quote
the words of President White, she has
housed IN vile barracks The student
has no need for luxury. Plain living has
ever gone with high thinking. But
grace and fitness have an educative power
too often forgotten in this utilitarian age.
These long corridors, with their stately
pillars, these circles of waving palms,
Will have their part in the Students
training as surely as the chemical labora-
tory or the seminary-room. Each stone
IN the quadrangle shall teach its lesson of
grace and of genuineness and this valley
OF Santa Clara. the valley of holy clear
ness, shall occupy warm place in every
Students heart.v
Referring to the history of the founda-
ton of the Leland Stanford Jr. Uni
versity, Professor Jordan said that it had
its origin in the shadow of great sor-
row. and its purpose in the wish to satisfy
for the coming generations the hunger
and thirst after knowledge, that undying
curiosity which is the best gift of God to
man: The influence of the boy, to the