Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-11
ROOM At THE TOP,
SAYS DR.. JORDAN
Distinguished Educator Tells What
The Century Demands Of
Young Men.
MUST Be EARNEST WORKERS.
SAYS Present Era VIII be Strenuous,
Complex and Demoeratie-speaker
Well Received.

The visit OF a distinguished educator
IL always an event Of interest In any
community, and particularly IN this
city is the visit of the president of
stanford university an occurrence Of
special moment. There are many
graduates and undergraduates Of that
institution resident In this city and
vicinity, and their respect for Or. Jor-
dan, as well as the high esteem In
which this noted college president Ii
held, was well and courteously evil
denoed last night, by the fine turnout
of the admirers and friends of Stanford
and It's executive, IN Barratt Hail.
President Jordan Is an entertaining
speaker, made more impressive by his
heroic stature and pleasing style Of
address. As an expert In the knowl-
edge of the philosophy Of life, and the
ms and outs Of human experience and
the more striking features of the
strenuous In the American character
Dr. Jordan probably has no superior
I'm this country, and consequently any
thing he may say may with profit be
carefully listened to. His theme last
night was, "The Call Of the Twentieth
Century" and he gave It with all the
force and power OF bugle call IRON
the heights OF Progress to come up out
OF the crowded depths below, to the
roomier and more agreeable heights
above "Exelclorl" was echoed and
re-echoed all through the address.
The speaker emphasized that not only
Is the work OF the century strenuous,
complex and democratic, but the kind
Of men who are to do the work VIII
be the ones whose force OF character
IS commensurate to the achievement
called for The young man OF cleah
life, the young man who can carry
the message to Garcia need nave 20
fear, no matter In what special Held
his life may have been spent
DR., Jordan was introduced by isaac
Russell Of the Deseret News III re"
ftly, well worded remarks ana IN me
course of his address, the speaker said;
nm ropD,N,,c prNtARKS
IN
IN many respects the twentieth cen-
fury viii be Just like the centuries that
have preceded but II viii have three
Rpeclal qualities. IL Is going to be
strenuous, complex democratic. siren
ilous OF course It win be. We have so
many things to do in this century, with
less than 100 years TO do them, that we
are going 10 have very strenuous
life. II will be a very complex CEN
fury. The world has been changed very
much by the discoveries Of science, by
the application OF our knowledge, and
we have made what was once very
large world very small. All the people
Of The world are now acquaintance of
burs. Every caravan OF the world
goes through our front yards every
day. We have become one great fam
fly In the world. Whenever anything
happens In the world that hurts any
one, Il in a measure hurts US,
I'm the old days in Titan, in the old
days in New England people said yes
anu no Jew ,, tivs i and ngn,tic,I fat5
settled a few litJle things as to When
they would plant corn and then II was
oil over, Now, every man very often
says yes or no. We have 70 decide po-
litical questions; we cannot go along
the old religious lines without asking
some questions. All this means that
life has grown more complex,
And because the twentieth century
is strenuous because y is complex. IL