The San Francisco call., 1898-12-18
BY PRESIDENT DAVID STARR JORDAN
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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does not rise much above the level of Q. cheese factory. It is the trait of per sonality which makes the university. It is, not it's Vegetative processes it's teaching of grammar, algebra and the laws of falling bodies, which makes it worthy of love and trust. It is the spirit of the whole, the influence of personal character, which makes it a real organism. Colleges" says Emerson. can only serve lis when their aim is not to drill, but to create; when they gather from afar every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by their concentrated fires set the heart of the youth in flame"
 / It is the concentration of the fires of genius the influence Of personality that gives the university it's character. That the institution at Palo Alto should have some quality of it's own, is the hope of those who have tried to shape it's course. What this character Is, others must decide.
 For one thing, I believe that one will not have to go below the surface to find it. The university is just what it pre- tends to be. It has no pompous forms or ceremonies to conceal idle action or want of action. The gown of the scholar has covered a multitude of un- scholarly things in the past Stanford men wear no gowns. The university mas no place TOT make believes, Wnetn- CT piouS or worldly. The toys which amused the boyhood of culture are kept in their proper places. "Of all horned cattle,'' observed Horace Greeley, pre- serve me from the college graduate. ," He was not speaking of the Stanford man, who. at his best, is quite another sort of fellow. The essence of higher education to-day is individual training A man is educated when he has had the kind of schooling needful to make a man of him. Not the kind which five hundred years ago was used to make a gentleman or clergyman of John Doe or of Richard Roe It is the kind which will civiize the particular boy of to- day and which will make man of him. I have reached the end of my space, and the true secret of the new era" at Palo Alto is yet unspoken. Perhaps it may never be told. Perhaps each one who passes through it's gates may tell a little of it.
 The architectural motive of the old Franciscan missions is strengthened and fitted to the needs of another mis- sion. not less sacred than that hallowed by the life of Junipero Serra.
 Something of it all comes from the charm of California. itself. Stanford University could exist in no other set ting The winds of freedom blow over California: the sunshine floods her valleys every month in the year. Some time the most lovable, the most gra- cious of all the States of our Union may become the most enlightened, the most wise. It is the true policy of Cali fornia, through her. two great universi- ties, to make the shores of her bay the educational center of the United States. This can be done through wise manage ment and wise expenditures. When it Is accomplished our State will take and hold her rightful place among the States of our Union. The center of beauty already. California will become the center of high thought, the center of wise action.
 DAVID STARR JORDAN.