The San Francisco call., 1901-10-02
TENTH BIRTHDAY
Of UNIVERSITY
Stanford's Faculty and
Students Celebrate
Anniversary.
Services Conform to Those
Held on the Opening of
First School Year.
Special Dispatch % The Call.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Oct. l.
The students and faculty gathered in the
assembly hall tonight to take part in the
exercises in comnemoration of the OPEN
ing Of the university ten years ago On
October l, 1891, Stanford University was
formally opened to students for the first
college wear. Sena tor Stanford President
Jordan. Martin kellogg and others ad-
dressing the meeting, which was held in
what is now known as the inner quad
rangle.
The prayer tonight was offered. as it
vas ten years ago. by Rev Robert
Mackenzie The same songs were sung
sno scriptures read as at the opening
exercises In 1891; in fact the programme
was made to conform as nearly as pos
sloie 70 that rendered at the dedication of
the university.
President Jordan said in part:
Ten years ago to-day the students and fac
ulty OF Leland Stanford Jr. University met
G to lnausurate it a new center Of higher educa-
nope flowers and sunshine. the glories Of
nature ana the glories Of architecture. The
T-1 SIal 4oeSI.oa was Shan We nave students!
ne PopUiauon OF the coast was scanty, less
all told than that Of the city Of Chicago. 1t
mac already an honored university and no
visible place for more.
The New York Mall and Express notified
US that there was as much room f0r new
university IN California for an asylum for
brokendown sea captains in Switzerland. and
the professors were told that for years they
must lecture in marble halls to empty
OF benches in these halls in which they would
serve only 10 dfshgure the archirecture ire
first entrance examination offered little r.ore
announcement. II was held the porch of
Escondite cottage. Three candidates
Miss Longley OF Mountain View. who passed
the first student admitted TO Stanford.
Lest We should provide feast for those
VINO would not come II was agreed to limit
the faculty al the beginning 10 fifteen besides
the president. the registrar who also taught
economics, The librarian, Professor Woodruff,
who could also teach law. and Bert Fesler,
who taught the higher law in Encina Hall.
After these there was waiting list Of
sistants who could come If wanted. beFides
Two heads Of departments, Professor Stillnan
6nd Professor " Narner, who were 10 arrive at
Christmas Then President White OF Cornell.
in more ways than one the good friend. the
never lost faith in its present or It's future.
for he saw in its growth his own best cdu-
cational ideas made actuai-President White
egreed 70 come as lecturer on the French
-Four hundred and sixty-fve students we're
in attendance on this first day of October.
1891. They came from almost every State in
the Union. from Europe. China ana Janan-
The rest formed the famous pioneer class. the
class Of 1885, the class which already reminds
Us that there were giants in those days when
the world ana the university were young
And with the presence of the students
found our 3ust reason ior being. The work
began in serious, hopeful carnestness- 1t is
going on to-day. and IL Viii so On. be-
Ieve. 50 long as civilization shall endure
Oxford. founded by Alfred the Great. has
thousand years the start. but this does not
discourage as. for We have kept up with il.
The new university rides cn the shoulders OF
The old and the lessons Of the thousand
belong just much old Oxford
One lesson of these ten years is ours and
ours alone. II is the lesson Of faith and
fidelity; faith in the future under Gods help,
and fidelity to a trust under the most dis
couraging couditicrs.
There is not one of Us who realizes the ire
lnendcus nature 0f the obstacles encountered
b- the university in the years from 1893 TO
1896. the years OF financial panic. Of Wautpp
litigation. the times Of depression ard dis
tyess which descended like J prison gate on
an Institution prepared only FOR hope aud pro-
fress. There was but one thing which could
rave the institution. the answering devotion
cf the surviving founder To doubt CT falter
was 10 perish. and IN the most trying times
no such words were fOund N her vocabulary.
To her there must always be way The
good Lord would provide il. And always the
way was found and the university dedicated
10 her beloved son has never closed It's doors
once opened. BY the noble generosity pf the
founders and the help Of him who doeth all
things well, these doors shall never be closed
50 long as one stone shall remain upon an
other.