The morning call., 1893-06-01
NOT ONE WHOOP.
Palo Altos Very Starchy
Commencement.
PROGRESSIVE ADDRESSES.
President Jordan's Reported Resigna-
ton '' Fake" so Stanford and
His College People Say.


sity is closed; there will be nothing fur
ther," announced President Jordan of
Palo Alto University yesterday after the
exercises of commencement.
The announcement fell rather fat.
The gymnasium. beautifully decorated
with flags, acacia. ordinary palms and
yuccas, beside flowers galore, vas crowded
with people who had come with some gen.
eral idea of a grand old breakup OF the
school Term. Memories of commandments
at Eastern colleges, with their entertain
ments, public and private, conflicted pain
fully with the cold, still aspect Of the an
nouncement. There will be nothing fur
Their"
1T is rumored, DIR. Jordan, that rela-
tons between yourself and the university
are to be severed Is it SOP" asked a CALL
reporter.
ut Is 'fake,'" replied the president,
knitting his brow. "You know the source
OF the rumor? Then you will not be sur
prised to hear that there is absolutely no
foundation for it. Several weeks ago my
appointment was reconfirmed, and the re-
la,ions between elf and Governor
Stanford are perfectly harmonious"
Later Senator Stanford was seen on the
same subject. DR.. Jordan was present. as
well as several If the trustees, who had
taken lunch with him.
II have never replied TO any newspaper
criticism in my life" said the Sen ator en-
phatically, "but as this rumor might hurt
DR.. Jordan here | would like 20 say that
the more | see of him and his work the
more | appreciate him, and that l have
never entertained for an instant any idea
of severlng our citations. How Is that,
Goctor?"
That is so, Governor" rejoined Presi~
dent Jordan. ~ believe we are as one in
respect 10 the university"
II don't mind such reports" continued
the Senator, but | thought this one m ght
be telegraphed 10 the East and prevent
some students coming next term. We ex-
pect to have 1000 here then"
Not one of them would believe 1t. even
If 1t had been telegra phed," put in Dr.
Jordan.
Probably the source it emanated from
would be sufficient to condemn it," added
one Of the trustees. and that settled the
matter.
'Dr. Jordan and l." continued Senator
STAFFORD. INTEND to make this school use
ful. Nature supplies enough material in
the forests, land and mines, and we desire
to teach people how best to avail them
selves of that material"
Have YOU any method for aScertaining
what new student is fitted for?"
That Is the care Of the whole faculty."
replIed DIT. Jordan, who evidently identi-
fed himself with the prac teal working Of
the university. I'VE have no chair of
classi hcation; we are against all division
into classes heredity, for instance. is only
detail in our method But we study a
student, and when we have diagnosed him
he is put in charge of professor. who
makes him his peculiar care"
L es," aSsented the Senator, "the doctor
sfun e.,
brought in some ladies TO Introduce them
TO her husband, so the subject was nipped
in the bud. But the conversation made it
plain that there is no little rift in the
lutte" al present, SO far as the relations of
the founder and president OF Paio Alto are
concerned.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford were presen
at the commencement exercises. The
former was down on the programme for
an address but did not feel up 10 the eXac-
ton and DR.. Jordan made his excuses.
There were other omissions also in the
prog: ANNE. They Included the tiune-hon-
oted graduates essays, which were missed
but not m0urned.
AS a professor said: Students gradual
ton essays'are gradually being eliminated
from commencement exercises all over the
country. Glasses arc getting so large and
secretion IN this respect is deemed artif-
cial. a good professor can rate every STU
uSHt iuIlS UtIOlt examination time, ana no
purpose is subserved by elaborate ESSAYS"
So instead Of the usual turgid sentences
the audience was treated to few musical
selections. varied BY the tonferring of de-
grees and two polished addresses, one BY
Professor George E. Howard and tie other
by President Jordan.
The following students are now bache-
lors OF arts: Greek-Ellsworth Lincoln
kich. Mayheld. Latin-Carrie Adelne
Bean, san Jose; Elizabeth Louise Board
man, Reno, New; Leslie Moultrop Bar
we'll, Sacramento. German-Henry r
Timm. Dixon. English-L. w. Bannister.
Des Moines, Iowa; A. H. Barnhisel. San
Jose; X. L. Buchanan, Lo.ansport. Ind. :;
N. A. Campbell, Des Moines, iowa; O. W.
Marsh. Santa Crnz. Historr-R. L. Cru
well, Lower Lake; &. II. Hogg, Saratoga :;
J. a. NOVEL;. College Park; c. S. Smith,
Eugene City. Oregon; W. O. Smith.
Detroit. Mich; W. l.. Webster. San
Jose. Z. b. Whittier Riverside; j. K
wight. Toronto. Can; Economics and So
eial Sciencs-W: 5. Faris San Francisco;
Math ema tics-W. B. Clark Castorlsnd, n
7, w. j. Edwards San Jose. S. B. Millen
Kokomo, Ind. F. NJ. Swain. Pale Alto. A
II. WHshhurn BIS. San Jose; Zoology
Celia Duel Mosher. Palo Alto; Geology
A. ii. Purdue. Yankeetown. Ind. Me-
chanical Engineering p. Coleman, De-
catur. III, &. E. Houghton. Philadelphia,
III,
r. Sawyer, Bunker Hill, ILL.,
The masters OF arts are as follows:
In Romance philology - Therese f. Conljn.
New 1ork City. In German-0Scar Maenus
Renzon, ABB Newell, Iowa. In education
JOHN Allen Hancock, NJ L., Green Bay, Wis
In histOrv-Albert James Brown A b., New
London, Ind; Charles Ernest Cnadsey, A B.,
Nebraska City. Neb.; Ernest Dorman Lewis,
A. b.. Evansville, Ind; Jessie Eleanor Russell,
Ph.B, san Jose. In economies and social
science-William James Hannah, All, Dari-
son. Mich In ma hematlcs--Charles Enwood
Cox. ABB, College Park; Frank Horioa
Foster Foster A A;B: WooGRsuff' IND; John An
pbysics-Carl Lane Ciemans. PhB, Man
chester. Iowa; Daniel William Murnny. A. B..
Butler, Ind; Herman de Clercq Stearns, A. b.
Joliet. III. In zooiogy-Frank; Cramel, BIZ.
SiebeDlhal. y. E.. Blooming on. Iud. In phys-
oiogy-Stewart Daniel Briggs ABB, College
Park; Fred Grant Burrows, ABB, Chualar;
Charles Wilson Greene, ABB, ireland, Ind
Frank Mace Mcfarland, ABB, Oliver, Mich
Mechanical engineer-Louis Alexander Blu
chanan, Palo Alto
The two addresses which constituted the
pieces de resistance OF the remainder of
the exercises were of high interest
Professor Howard spoke for an hour on
The American University and the Amer
lean Man." His mastery exposition will
be printed as monolnguc by the univer-
sity and is likely to excite peculiar inter-
est among Western colleges.
After reviewing the origin of the new
'humanism" through the renassances OF
the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the
former producing the abolition Of slavery
of scholastic thought and the latter a
cradle Of modern science, the professor
reached the conclusion that in the nine