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...Lyman Wilbur. U. S. Secretary of the Interior, may continue to stay away during the remainder of President Herbert Hoover's term without forfeiting his Palo Alto position. The answer to that question will determine when Stanford will do the thing so long ago proposed by Dr. Jordan, planned and already begun by Dr. Wilbur: Abolish freshman and sophomore years, become a graduate-grade university like Johns Hopkins, now unique...
Children of California. Native of Gainesville, N. Y., Cornell graduate (1872), robustious baseball player (he broke his nose at it), studious teacher of Zoology, David Starr Jordan became president in 1885 of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. Aged 34, he was then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...
...Jordan's Men. In the early days at Stanford, pioneering Dr. Jordan said: "The problem of life is not to make life easier but to make men stronger." One of his first students at Stanford in 1891 was lean, shy young "Bert" Hoover, just down from Oregon. Next year came 6-ft.-4-in., 17-year-old "Rex" Wilbur of Riverside, Calif.? The friendship begun at college between these two?like the friendship between Co-eds Lou Henry and Marguerite Blake whom they later married ?was to live long. Dr. Jordan was to be specially conscious of Bert...
...have learned that it pays to look up a man's good points," Dr. Jordan has said. It was he who found Hoover the job that enabled him to go to college; he who, though Hoover lacked entrance credits in English Composition, admitted him to Stanford. After four years Bert Hoover, famed today as an infinitive-splitter, was still deficient in English, but "as he seemed to have all the other requirements of a useful citizen, we graduated him anyway and let him take his chances in the world...