The San Francisco call., 1908-09-10
STANFORD BOYS
MUST BE GOOD
President Jordan Tells Them
How They Shall Act if They
Wish to Stay on Roll
Scores Professional College
Athletes and Praises Young
Men Who Can Say mo"
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Sept. o.
Inc nrst assembly OF the semester, in
tended primarily for the new students,
Was held this morning. Four speeches
or most forcible and interesting char
acter were delivered by President Da-
yid Starr Jordan, DR.. J. c. Branner,
vice president of the university, Pro-
fessor B. E. Howard, head of the new
department of political science, and A.
r. Roth. '09, student body president
for the present year.
DR.. Jordan called the attention of
the nrst year students to customs and
rules.
Cut out Menio or cut out Stanford"
was now he treated the drinking situ-
ation In part. He further said:
1t is for me to say a word of well
come to the new class of 1912 and with
this word over their heads to the up
per classes also. Never mind the past
Get into the future. Get together.
Work together. The flower of life is
red The color of Stanford is red, not
pale blue nor crushed strawberry, not
yellow nor yet dark brown. Yellow is
the hue of dishonesty and disloyalty;
dark brown, of the dark brown taste,
is the hue of regrets
stanford university is the gift of
man and woman who believed in
young men and young women, who
believed in education, for training for
success in life. Education means work.
What comes easy is not education. 1t
is not worth taking. Free lunch is
poor sort of meal.
PROTESTS AGAINST DIGGING
An Oxford man has lately protested
against sewer work at oxford. The
university should not be a house for
digs, or grinds, but a place where
young men of good family may sow
their wild oats with the least possible
danger to themselves But that would
not be university. Call it rather
resort, sanatorium or a pesthouse:
Tor there is no microbe more danger
Gus than the one we call wild oats 1t
sets Its roots in the spinal column till
we are ruined through and through. Z
This is not education. Education
means work. Success in lifeY means
work. For young man success means
manliness, effectiveness, power to do
ones part. On the university side, edu-
cation means the acquiring a profess
sion.. - .e-
Success does not mean money nor
fame, though both may come when they
are pot expected. 1t means making the
most or ones self for ourselves and
others. The university can not give
success in life. The professors who
constitute the university can give
nothing. 1t is yours to take. The best
men have thought and done In the
world is the stock in trade Of the col
lege. You have only to help yourselves.
Training for success in life means
two things-that you care for your
work that You care for yourselves.
Size yourselves UP. What are you here
for? We give you about two years
to find out. AS freshmen and sopho-
mores you have this problem II you
can not answer it. you must go home.
While you are here your work is the
only real thing. To your work you
must be loyal. All things else, all stu
dent activities are bypiay, we'll
enough in themselves, but never to be
sought as final ends. We hear
much said of what the student does or
may do for his university. No student
can do anything else so important as
doing his work. We believe in student
athletics so long as athletes are stu
dents. The curse of athletics is the
professional athlete, who is not stu
dent but yet wears the students badge.
We would like to see every student
athlete, every one in the field as a
player, but the student in the bleach
ers is not in athletics. Shouting for
the team, betting on the team, do not
mean college spirit. Get into the game.
Get into the work. Be part of the
university.
NO ROOM FOR ROYsTERERS