The San Francisco call., 1908-03-28
Jordan Holds Out No
Hope to Students
President of Stamford Regards
Demonstration as Revolt
Against His Authority
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 81.
The demonstration of March IL was an
organized expression sof revolt. pri-
marily against the committee, but
actually, against thssauthority of the
university itself It was necessary
that the offense should be met squarely
and definitely. This the committee has
done. and the university will continue
to carry out its policy without refer
ence to opposition or protest. From
President David Starr Jordan before
leaving for a trip to Montana
With the threatened walkout of stu
dents averted, for the time being at
least. by the extreme pressure brought
to bear during the day by the more
conservative element of the student
body and alumni representa- atives. the
campus community of Stanford univer-
sity is, In one respect, less turbulent
than yesterday. but. on the other hand,
the most intense resentment has been
famed to life again by statement
dent David Starr Jordan.
NO HOPE FOR STUDENT BODY
DR.. Jordans statement-the first of
fetal expression he has given concern
ing the situation--carries with it no
hope to the student body, and has
served to intensity the feeling already
existing against the executive authori-
ties of the university. DIR. Jordan not
only takes the stand that the parade.
which directly led TO the present
breach, was an organized revolt against
the authority of the university's execu-
tive heads, but he positively declares
that opposition and protest will not
shake him In the position he has taken
and that appeal will be useless.
The wording of DR.. Jordan's state
ment is generally taken rs an admis-
sion on his part of his personal belief
in the long prevalent and persistent
rumor that the present crisis Is an out
growth of a deeply laid plot to GUST
him from the presidency of the fnsti-
tuition and that 1t is simply one form of
attack against him personally. This
construction OF his meaning is based on
his averment that the demonstration
Of March IL was not merely a revolt
against the committee on student af-
fairs, but actually a revolt against the
authority of the university itself"
For months the most ardent faculty
supporters and student friends of the
president of the university have whis-
pered it about the campus and quietly
spread the report in other circles that
an organized and widespread move
ment to depose DIR. Jordan was in ex-
istence So subtle has been the trend
of this gossip that no opportunity has
ever been given to those accused of
participation in such a movement to
deny its being. yet the story has as
sumed the dignity OF detail of which
the origin has never been accounted
for.
ALLEGED FACTOR IN PLOT
The name OF Professor Max Farrand
of the history department of the uni
versity has been openly dragged into
the tale OF plot and intrigue. DR.. Far
rand's popularity with the student body
gave rise to the first hints that he en-
tertained designs upon the executive
position held by DR.. Jordan. Farrand
was instrumental in forming the Quad
rangIe club. an upper class student or
ganization which has drawn its mem
bership from the most prominent and
influential men in the student body and
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