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THE SAN FEKANUISCU CALL, ’HOKSDAY, MAY 38U 1901 COLONEL DUNGAN GROWS EXCITED Old Kentuckian Rails at His Son-in-Law in Court. Suit Against His Daughter for Family Heirlooms Is Concluded. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, May 20.—The suit of Colonel Blanton Duncan against his daughter, Mrs. Katherine Lewis, to re-| cover $000 worth of jewelry and other ef- fects left by his deceased wife, was gon- | cluded in the Superioe Court to-day and | Judge Bellard will render his decision to- morrow. Colonet Duncan made a long ar- gument, in which he attempted to con- vince the court that the heirlooms given to Mrs. Lewis by his late wife belonged to him and were hers to use, but not to give away. The defense submitted the | | This statement is corroborated by all the EAGER 10 JOIN BLSH TO NOME Fortunes Offered for Pas- senger Tickets in Seattle. Steamship Companies Selling Bunk Space on the Upper Decks. g S Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, May 29.—There was not an- other ticket left for passage on any of the first vessels preparing to depart for Nome. steamship officials. All the gangway space on the Senator has been sold for cot bunks, and the demand for passage is so heavy that passengers will be sold the privilege of sleeping in cots on the upper decks. It is said that the only tickets outstanding are a few for the Oregon, in the hands of brokers. EXPLAINS SENATOR STANFORD'S VIEWS ON HIGHER EDUCATION President David Starr Jordan, in Conferring Degrees Upon Two Hundred and Thirteen Graduates at Palo Alto, Makes Plain the Aims and Ideals of the Founder of Their Alma Mater LIVEIN FEAR OF THE MAFIA Wealthy San Jose Ital- ians Receive Demands + TANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 29. —The tenth annudl Commencement day exerciges of Stanford Univer- sity are over at%d 200 names have been added to those of her vigor- ous little band of alumni members. In point of numbers the class of 1901 is the largest which the institution has yet graduated, and it was easily ap- parent that President Jordan and his faculty ‘were proud of the long line of candidates for university honors as they marched up the aisles'in the spacious new Assembly Hall, 213 in number. A large number of the graduating class are wo- men and they made a pretty picture, garbed as they were in the classic mortar beard and gown. The exercises were opened promptly at half past 10 by the university chorus ren- dering Gounod’s “Praise Ye the Father.” The invocation was by Rev. C. G. Bald- win of Palo Alto. Each of the steamship agents has or- case without argument. “] am satisfied,” said Judge Ballard, “that most of these articles were given outright to Mrs. Duncan. Notwithstand- ing the testimony of the plaintiff, 1 be- was his intention to give these lieve 1t articles to his wife. Giving a wife such rticles as a lace dress, with the reserva- tion that it is to come back to the hus- | band, is at utter variance with the usual | tom between husband and wife. On | the other hand, if the common law pre- valied in Kentucky at the time of the | gifts, some of the articles in possession of | the wife were also the property of the | husband.” | Shouts at Colonel Lewis. | Dering the proceeding$ to-day, when the | wutlook appeared to grow more and more | gloomy, Colonel Duncan became much ex- | cited. Among the circumstances that con- tributed not a little to the colonel's dis- ure was the presence of Colonel Lewis, husband of the defendant, | who bothered the old man with his mys- | terious actions. While testifying, Colonel Duncan discovered Colonel Lewis sitting | dangerously near Duncan’s fellow-attor- | ney | “What are you doing there?” Duncan | demanded. “Get away. Go and sit back by the railing. Youre looking at my | paper.” | | Lewis moved. A ripple of mirth | Colone! stirred the court room. In the testimony introduced by the de- fendants to show their title to the goods | in question was a deposition by Sarah D. | «Burnett of Brooks, Ky. She said she was | a first cousin of Colonel Duncan and knew Mary T. Duncan very well. The depo: | tion showed that all the table silver and | certain other trinkets in the contest were | jurchased many years ago in Loulsville, | Ky by Mary T. Duncas, who later be gueathed them to her daughter, Kate | Lewis. Mrs. Burnett was aware that this silver was in Mrs. Lewis’ possession up to July, 1887, at which time she was visiting at the Lewis home in. this city. Court Frowns Upon Him. When he stepped down from the stand Colonel Duncan emptied all the law books | out of his iron box, piling them up in a great heap on the table before him. There | were Kentucky tomes and California re- ports, codes of procedure, authorities on evidence and a veritable library of legal | lore. “What are you going to do with all those books?' inquired Judge Bailard, glancing hopefully at the clock. ‘If the court please,” began Colonel Duncan, “I am going to read to you (he| decielons of the Supreme Court of Ken- | tucky, as well as the decisions of the Su- | preme Court of California, upon cases similar to this.” “No, you're not going to do any such thing,” "said Judge Ballard. “You have not rested se vet. 1 shall not allow | the reading of all those authorities to be | introduced as evidence. If you are bound to make use of them you will have to do 0 during your argument of the case and | not before. My impression is that very little argument will be required.” Judge Ballard’s remarks indicate that his verdict will be in favor of Mrs. Lewi: @ iiiviniininieisieieieieieiieeer @ aUTH HONORS 0LD SOLDIERS Brilliant Floral Parade at the Confederate Re- union. s MEMPHIS, Tcnn., May 29.—A beautiful sight was the floral parade with which the citizens of Memphis this afternoon hon- ored their guests and the Confederate re- unjon. Over a hundred vehicles, which were marses of flowers, were in line, and all the citizens of Memphis who witnessed the flower parade given last year in honor of Admiral Dewey agreed that the event to-day far surpassed the first attempt. At the business session of the United Confederate Veterans the report of the historical committee was unanimously ad 1. It stated that the chief impedi- > the preparation and reception of | sistory impartially dealing with both | sides of the war is prejudice. It added: “Probably the generation now passing dway will never completely outlive the prejudices engendered by the war and the | contentions_and pprehensions which led to it ons and prejudices aroused by the war threatened to implant sectional animosities which time could never heal. We Southern people once regarded Abraham ILincoln as one of the most des- picable creatures that ever lived. Now, while we do not indorse the policy which he pursued, we honor him for his unqu tioned sincerity, patriotism and ability On the other hand, the people of the North once regarded Jefferson Davis as the incarnation of selfishness and disloy- alty. Now, wherever disabused of preju- dices, they regard him, using the lan- guage of one of their ablest scholars, as one of the “purest, ablest, most patriotic and most consistent of all American, statesmen.” General John B. Gordon was commander in chief; Licutenant General W. I Cabbell, commander of the Trans- Mississippi Department; Lieutenant Gen- eral 8. D. Lee, commander of the Army of the Tennessee; Lieutenant General Wade Hampton, commander of the Army of Northern' Virginia. A resolution was adopted providing that no persons or body or convention itself “shall have the right to invite any one to a Confederate Veterans' reunion other than Confederates.” Dallas, Tex., was selected for the reunion of 1902, “The con- vention adjourned sine dle at 5:50 p. m. R. B. Haughton of 8t. Louis was elected commander in chief of the Sons of the 1;nm«z“(‘nnr»é1«r‘m» Veterans. The ges- sion adjourned sine dle t sion adjourne o meet in Dallas, @ ool ek @ CONVENING OF CONGRESS AVOIDED Continued from First Page. elected scriptions could also enter the Unit, Btates by this roundabout but economl:ndl route. It is certain, therefore, that this new phase of the Philippine problem will recelve immediate attention as soon as the President and the Cabinet reach ‘Washington; and in view of the import- ant questions involved and the necessity of action, there is very general satisfac- tign that the national capital is being epeedily reached. — STOLE A BICYCLE—Carl Rupprecht, the 13- year-old son of Philip J. Rupprecht of 887 Jersey street, was arrested last night on the | Dawson. | each to carry 10,000 bricks down the Yu- | Bophie Nissen and Mildred Blyth; vocal solo, ders in hand for from 150 to 500 tickets and could sell as many more if there were possible chance of getting a vessel. | Mz persons who have failed tc pro- care accommodations on the steamers | preparing to leave for the far north within ‘ the next week were around to-day flf(er-r ing enormous sums for tickets, but those | lucky enough to possess the pasteboards refused to part with them. One offer of $1000 to ship two horses on the Centennial, which will leave on Satur- day, was refused to-day. Hundreds of | men have been clamoring all day for | freight space, but not one inch of unoc- | cupied steamer room {s to be obtained. The wharf is piled to the rafters with ! merchandise, hay, feed, etc., and loading | will go on night and day, so that the steamer can get away on time on Satur- day. e BETTER THAN A GOLD MINE. White Horse Firm Shipping Building | Bricks to Dawson. TACOMA, May 20.—White Horse, Alas- ka, has a new industry which promises | to be more profitable to its owners than | even the gold and copper mines tributary to the Upper Yukon. It comprises the first and only brickyard in Alaska, which is now making brick on a large scale for shipment down the Yukon on scows to The business is being operated | |by B. P. Whitney and C. J. Young, the | latter having discovered a mountain of clay suitable for making red brick a short distance west of White Horse. Dawson | builders offer a large price for the brick, their desire being to erect buildings that | nnot be destroyed the next time a fire | weeps through the Klondike capital. A portion of the product will be shipped to Bkaguay. A dozen scows are being built, c kon. Dawson men have procured a franchise | for an electric light plant in White Horse. Power will be supplied for the factories and sawmlills tributary to White Horse. g Fever on a Goldship. PORT TOWNSEND, May 29.—The steamship State of California arrived from Alaska to-day, bringing fifty pas- sengers and $100,000 in bullion. A case of | scarlet fever was found aboard and the vessel was sent to the Diamond Point quarantine station for fumigation. | L e e e e e e ] ] | MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES, Likens Eduecation to Disease. In the absence of Professor George M. Richardson, who was unable to attend on | account of sickness, the commencement address was read for him by Professor A. T, Murray. The subject was ‘“The Gospel of Work,” and it was a strong presenta- tion of the value of individual effort in lhetstl‘uzsle for education. He said in part: Education s something like a contagious disease and your diploma is merely a certifi- cate that you bave been exposed to an educa- tion. It does not by any means signify that you took it. Even in the colleges where the standard of scholarship is the highest some are bound to get through who are not really edugated. o individual must depend upon his own effort for succe No matter how fine may be his equipment and professors, they cannot take the place of work on his part. Nothing worth while can be gained without work. All that education does is to place us at the long end of the lever of work, so that our efforts are better directed, hence more effective. The thorough study of any subject awakens the interest of the student. He who has gone to the bottom of a sclence has a bond of sym- pathy for every other man who has done like- wise, The mastery of one subject gives us strength to master another. To-day there is less false pride than ever before. Everywhere the men who do_the world’s work are recelving credit for it from all right-minded people. It Is the duty of your alma mater to make you effective and practical, as well as to give you somewhat of culture. = But culture 18 gained by a com- bination of character and attainments. With- out both these you will not be able to fill your place in the world. Choose your life work with care, and as early as possible; enter upon it with zeal; see how much you can put into it, mot how much you can get out of it: be not too par- ticular about your first position, it is ending well that counts. At the close of Professor Richardson’s address President Jordan conferred the degrees, the members of the class pass- ing before him on the rostrum to receive their diplomas. For the first time the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws was conferred. The sole recipient of this honor was J. T. Burcham, '97, and he was accorded due honors for the distinction by the storm of applause which greeted him when the de- gree was conferred. Dr. Jordan’s Address. The address to the graduating class by President Jordan was upon ‘‘The Edpca- tional Ideals of Leland Stanford.” It is a magnificent presental of the wisdom and munificence of the revered founder of the university and reveals a side of Senator Stanford’s character that has not hitherto been dwelt upon. He spoke as follows: It s my pleasant duty once again to wel- come a body of young men and young women into the ever-widening circie pf Stanford alum- ni. The certificates 1 have just placed in your hends testify to our confidence in your ability Continued from First Page. | cec3 by Geary-street cars to 0dd Fellows | Cemetery. | Charles’ Edelman is grand marshal, General Edward S. Salomon is chief of | | staff and the following are his aids: D. P. Stones, chief aid; W. W. Stone, Sol Cahen, H. W. Mortimer.*A. . Cohn, J. C. Innes, J. H. Hilton, William Burgess, Sig L. Simon, Thomas Barn- stead, J. H. Stewart, B. Frank Austin, A. Sorensen, Dennis McSweeney, J. Kar- minsky, ‘Gustave Marck, J. Murphy, L. F. Smith, A. E. Leavitt,’ James Kiernan. Market-Street Parade. | The parade will form with the organiza- tions participating in the following order: Naval battalion and band, United States Flag- ship Iowa, Lieutenant C. 8. Williams, N., commanding. Trdop A, N. G. C., and band, Captain Charles Jansen, commanding. Hancpck .School Drill Corps, Irving Scott School Drill Corps and Lincoln Cadets, Comrade W. W. Stone, aid, commanding, Roncovieri’s Band. Sons of Veterans. GRAND Army of the Republic—Lincoln Post John C. Innes, commander: James sarfleld Post No, 8, A. E. Cohn, com- nder; Colonel Cass Post No. 46, George Arbuckle, commander; General George eade Post No. 48, John Murphy, com- der. Disabled Veterans and others In carriages. At 0dd Fellows’ Cemetery. Following is the programme for the morning services at Odd Fellows’ Ceme- tery, to be held at 11 o'clock: Firing minute guns, Fifth United States Ar- tillery; music, Roncovieri’s Band; invocation, Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, D.D.; opening remarks, hy the president of the day, Comrade Peter H. Mass; “Ode to the Nation's Dead,” Lincoln Drill Corps; Lircoln's Gettysburg address, Ars. J. Lou Hallett; music, Roncovieri'’s Band; original poem (Comrade W. W. Stone), read by Mrs. Hattie B. Steele; song, Lincoin Drill | Zorps;_oration, Dr. M Levy; ‘“‘Cover Them Over 'With Beautiful Flowers,” Roncovierl's Band (while the above is being _rendered, strewing of floral offerings will take place): firing volleys o'er comrades' graves.. firing party Lincoln Post; ‘‘America,” audience and band; tape. The evening services. at B'nai B'rith Hall at 8 o’clock, will be as follows: Music, orchestra; (a) Introduction of colors, color guard, G. A. R.; (b) “The Old Flag For- ever,” Linceln Drill Corps: opening remarks, chairman of the evening, Gen-ral E. S. Sal mon; ““Ave Maria” (by Nessler), Verein Arfon; recitation, ellie Holbrook Blinn; piano solo, Carel H. M. Verwoert; recitative sketch, Non e Ver,” Miss Mary Hagan; oration, Rev. Willlam Rader, D.D.; music, orchestra; ation, “'A Ride Against Time,” Mrs, Edna Brouillard; taps. ‘America, audience and orchestra; gt Cadets’ Memorial Service. At St. Mary's Cathedral at 10 o'clock mass will be celebrated for deceased members of the League of the Cross, The cadets will assemble at Turk street and Van Ness avenue at 9:30 o'clock and march to the church. After services dress parade and review will be held on Van Ness avenue. In the afternoon detalls will hold services over the graves of de- ceased members in Holy Cross and Cal- vary cemeteries. At 9 o'clock mass will be celebrated in 8t. Mary's Cathedral for deceased mem- bers of the Catholle Truth Soclety. s OLD SOLDIERS TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES OAKLAND, May 20.—The veteran sol- dter posts will hold memorial services to- morrow in honor of deceased comrades. The veterans will parade in the downtown streets in the morning before the exer- clses begin at the Grand Army of the Re- public plat in Mountain View Cemetery. he Rev. C. K. Jenness of Berkeley v%l deliver the oration at the services. Serv- ices will be held also in #he evening at the First Presbyterian Church, when the Rev. E. E. Baker, the pastor, will be the orator. Company A of the Veteran Reserves, N. G. C., will be the f‘ueuts of Lookout Moun- tain Post, G. A. R. They will go to 0Odd Fellows' Hall," Berkeley, where there will be a memorial programme. The postoffice will close in the morning at 10 o'clock, and there will be only one | moral value of the possess | the resultant of the Initial impulse, the idea and your purposes. In our eyes, you, lke those who have passed before you, are youth of promise. We have done the best we know in aiding you in vour preparation for useful- ness. The riet lies in your own hands. One of th: greatest of the joys we call academic is that of looking info the eyes of young men md young women with the feei- ing that some small part at least of their strength 1s tie work of our own minds and hearts. Some hing of the teacher we kee in the student, and from master to pupil there is a chain of heredity as real if not as literally exact as the bodily likeness that runs in the biood. To the founder of a university a kindred sat- | istaction is given, and not for a day or a period_only, but for ‘‘changing cycles of years.” It I8 his part %o exchange gold for abundance of life. It is his to work mightily in the affairs of men centuries after his per- sonal opinions and influence are forgotten. The n of wealth e in the use to which It is put. There can be no better use than that of making young men and women wise and clean and strong. Of this right use of money your lives and mine have been in large degree a.product. This fact gives me the theme of my discourse this morning, the work of Leland Stanford Jr. Univerzity as it existed in the mind of the founder before teachers or students came to Palo Alto to make it real. Our university is now just ten ye all foundations in America it is t! save one—the University of Chicago. y Yet, as universities go, In our New World, It has at- tained its majority. It is old enough to have 2 character and to be judged by it. For the broad principles of education, all universities stand, but each one works out fts function in its own fashion. It is this fashion, this turn of method which sets off one from another, which gives it its Individual character. What this character shall be no one force can determine. Its final course it develops, and the resistance of its surround- ings. No one influence can control the final outcome. No one will can determine the re- sult, where a thousand other wills are also active. Nor is the environment finally potent. Environment 1s inert, except as the individual wills are pitted against it. Leland Stanford’s Ideals. In our own university the initial impulse came from the heart and brain of Leland Stanford, The ideals it has upheld were his before they were ours. They had been care- tully wrought out in his mind before he called like-minded men to his service to carry them into_action. It 48 well once In a while to recall this fact. The need to train his own son first turned Mr. Stanford’s thoughts to educational mat- ters. His early acquaintance with Professor Agassiz, perhaps the greatest of American teachers, helped to direct these thoughts {uto channels of wisdom. From Agassiz he derived @ realizing sense of the possibilities of human knowledgs and the fmpelling force of man’s intellectual needs, that hunger and thirst af- ter_truth which only the student know: “‘Man’s physical needs are slight,’’ h ald, “but his intellectual needs are bounded only by his capacity to conceive,” Tn the darkness of bereavement the thought came to Mr. Stanford that'the duty of his 1ife should be to carry out his plans of educat- ing his own son into effect for the sons of others. After the long vigll of a dreary night e awoke with these words on his lips, ‘“The children of California shall be my children, c energy he made th viston fact. of endowment, we drawn up, lands and bulldings and -teachers Were provided, and on the first day of October, 1891, the new university opened its doors to the children of Califernia and to those of the rest of the world as well. With all bright auspices of earth and sky, of hope and purpose, of wealth and generosity, the new university began. In its history ali who are here to-day have taken some part. With many of us it represents the best portion of our liver. Of this T do notnow wish to speak, but rather to_discuss the original impulse of the founder, What was Leland Stanford’s idea of a university, its work and life? Wo learn first that he would leave the uni- versity free to grow with the coming aj He would extend no dead hand from the grave to limit its activities or to control its movements. The deed of EIft is in fuvor of education pure and simple. It has no hampering clause, ‘and the only end in view is that of the help of hu- manity through the extension of knowledge. “We hope,” he says, “that this institution will endure through ages. Provisions regard- ing details of management, however wise they may be at presént, might prove to be mis- chievous under conditions which may arlse in the future.’” Democracy of Knowledge. As a practical man, accustomed to go to the heart of things, Mr. Stanford had little respect for educational millinery and for the conven- tionalities which have grown up in or about the great Institutions cf the Old World. He saw clearly the value of thoroughness, the need of freedom, the Individuality of develop- ment, but cared little for the machinery by Which these ends were achieved. So it was de- delivéry during the day. Dr. Jordan Goes to Hawaii. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 2.— President David Starr Jordan will leave for Honolulu to-morrow, where he will engage upon his work as a member of the charge of grand larceny. He is charged with stealing a bicycle from the Mission High School on last A ) }Lr;:xled lmtuei! F}I}I Cnlmnzinlon. He will rn late in July. Instruc 3 Snyder will woompym him. i e creed that the new university should be simple in its organization with only those details of structure which the needs of the times should develop within it. It must have precedents and traditions; it must make its own. “I would have this institution,” he sald, ‘:help to fit men and women for usefulness in this life by increasing their individual power of production, and by making them good com- pany for themselves and . No ‘other university has recognized so dis- i 1 tinctly the absolute democracy of knowledge. The earlier traditions of Corneil pointed in this direction and for this reason Mr. Stanford found in Cornell rather than In Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins or Michigan the nearest’ exist- ing approach to his own ideal. It was Ezra Cornell’s hope "to found an institution where any person could find instruction in any study.” Cornell and Stanford, In so far as they are loyal to these traditions, know neither favored students nor favored studies. No class of men are chosen, to the exclusion of other and no class of studies is given a fallaciou importance through force of academic pressure or through fnertia of academic tradition. While variouskinds of knowlelge are of varying worth to different persons, each has its own value to the world, and the value to the individual must be determined in each case Dy itself. The uni- versity should be no respector of persons. It is not called on to approve or condemn the various orders of genius that come to it for tralning. There has been no greater hindrance to educa- tional progress than the hierarchy of studles, the fiction that certain kinds of work had an invistble value not to be measured by tangible resuits, Mr. Stanford shared with Agassiz the idea that the essential part of education was a thor- ough knowledge of some one thing, so firmly held as to be effective for practical results, He believed in early choice of profession, in so far as early choice could be wige choice. The course of study, however broad and however long, should, in all its parts, look toward the final end of effective life. The profession chosen carly glves a purpose and stimulus to all the intermeciate courses of study. He saw clearly the need of individualism in education and that courses of study should be built around the in- dlvidual man as he Is. The supposed needs of the average man as developed by a consensus of educationl philosophers do not suffice for the actual man as he is in actual life. We must be fed by food that is good for us. It is for us that it must be adapted, not for some aver- age man in some average age. The ready-made curriculum belongs to the same category as ready-made clothing. It is something cheap and easy for the man without individual needs. Mr. Stanford’s belief that literature and en- gineering should be pursued side by side was shown by his wish to ‘provide for both with equal generosity. And the students of each are the gainers by this relation. The devotee of classical culture is strengthened by his association with men with whom their college work is part of the serious duty of life. The student of engineering stands with both feet on the ground. His success In life depends on the exactness of his knowledge of machinery and of the basic principles of mechanics and mathematics. He must be ip dead earnest if he would succeed at all. On,the other hand, the ‘student of realitics gaind by his assock tion with the poet, the philosopher and the artist. The finer aspects of life are brought 10 his notice. and from this assocation results tolerance and breadth of sympathy. Believed in Co-Education. That women should recelve higher education as well as men was an axiom with Mr. Stan- ford. Co-education was taken for granted from the first, and the young women of Stanford have never had to question the friendliness of their welcome. “WWe have provided,” Mr. Stanford says, “In the articlea of endowment that the education of the sexes shall be ual, deeming it of Gpecial {mportance that those who are to be the mothers of a future generation shall be fitted to mold and direct the Infantile mind at its_moat_critical verlod.” That the new university would In time at- tract great numbers of students, Mr. Stanford belleved as a matter of courses, although he found few California teachers who shared this | optimism. But he was never decelved with the cheap test of numbers in estimating the value of institutions. He knew that a few hundred men well trained and under high influences would count for more than as many thousands hurried in droves over a ready-made curriculum by young | tutors themselves searcely out of college. So it was decreed that numbers for members’ wsake should never be a goal of Stanford Uni- Versity. And he further made the practical | request that not one dollar directly or indi- rectly should be spent in advertising. The university has no goods for which It fs anx- fous to find customers. Mr. Stanford Insisted as a_vital principle that the university exists for the benefit of its students, past, present and future. It has no existence or function save as an instrument of educaticn, To this prineiple all others should bhe subordinate. In his opening address Mr. Stanford said to the udents of the ploneer clash: “You are the most important factor in this university. It fs for your benefit that it has been established.” The greatest need of the student ia the teacher Mr. Stanford sald: “In order that the vreeident may have the assistance of a competent staff of profgssory we have provided that the bLest talent obtainable shall be pro- cur»d and_that liberal compénsation shall al ways be offered.’ Again he snid: ‘‘Ample en- dowment may have been provided, intelligent ma; rement ay secure large Income, stu- dents may present themselves in numbers, but in the end the faculty makes or mars tho' uni- versity." Compared with the character of the faculty every other element in the university & of relatively little importance, Great teachers make a university great. The chief duty of the college president s the cholce of teachers. 1f he has learned the art of surrounding him- selt with men who are clean, sane and schol arly, all other matters of university admini; tration will take care of themselves He can- not fafl if he has good men around him. And in the chofce of teachers the element of per- sonal sanity seemed of first importance to Mr. Stanford—the ability to see things as they are. | The university chajr should be & center of clear seeing, from which right acting should A Incentive for Research. That the university should be a center of co- operating research was a vital element of M Stanford's plans. A man content With truth that now f{s and without ambition to venture into the unknown should not hold the chair of university professor. The Incentive for research should be within, mot withouf Its motive should mot be the desire of f dividual fame, but the love of knowledge. In proportion to the extent to which it widens the range of human knowledge and of human power, in that degrees does an insti- tution deserve the name of university. The value of its original work s the best sing! test by which a university may Judged, and 1t is the best so is it also the severes In its public relations the university stands for infinite patience, the calm testing of ideas ideals. It conducts no propaganda, it con- Is no affairs of business or of public action. t is the judge of the principles of wisdom and he ways of nature. The details of action it ust leave to men whose business it is to ulde the currents of the moment. When Leland Stanford Junior Untversity :(Il founded it was provided that in its rell- ous life, as in its sclentific investigations, it should ‘e wholly free from' outeide control. No religious ssct or organization and no grouo DAVID STARR JORLaN, PRESIDENT OF STA*NFORD UNIVERSITY, WHO YESTERDAY CONFERRED DEGREES UPON 213 STUDENTS ‘WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR COLLEGE COURSES. -—_ e of organizations should have dominion over it. The university should exist for its own sake to carry out its own purposes and to bring out its own results in Its own way. In this regard the die is cast, once for all. ‘The choice of the founders of the unlvarlu{ ‘was deliberate and final. They chose the pati of intellectual and religious freedom, (n the very interest of religion itself, Reilglon is devotion in action. In its higher reaches it must be individual, because it is a functlon of the individual soul, which must stand in perpetual protest against the religion which finds its end in forms. and ceremoriles and or- ganizations, Religlon must form the axis of personal character and its prime importance the univer- sity cannot ignore. To the end of its culture it may use indirect rather than direct means, the {nfluence of effort and character rather than the imposition of forms. To accept ec- clesiastical help Is to invite eccleslastical con- trol toward ccclesiastical ends. In the grant of endowment it was required that the trus- tees should “grohlhu sectarian instruction, but to have taught in the university the immor- tality of the soul, the existence of an all- wise and benevolent Creator, and that obe- dience to his laws 1s the ighest duty of man.’" This requirement was a !lmgle rdection of Mr. Stanford's own religlous character, as ex- pressed in the words of one very. near to him: “If a firm bellef in a benificent Creator, a pro- found admiration for Jesus of Nazareth and his teachings and a certainty of a personal life hereafter constitute religion, then Leland Stanford was a religious man. The narrow walls of a creed could not confine him} there- fore he was not a professed member of any church, for In each confession of faith he found something to which he could not sub- scribe. But for the principles of religion he had a profound veneration: in his heart were the true sentiments of Christianity, and he often sald that in his opinion the golden rule ‘was the cornerstone of all true religion.’” Freedom of Thought. The founders belleved truly that freedom of thought and action would promote morality and religion, that a deeper, fuller religious life would arise from the growth of the in- dividual, that only where ‘‘winds of free- dom” blow will spring up the highest type of religious development. For character is formed from within by the efforts and striv- ings and aspirations of the individual. It can never be imposed from without. The will is made strong from choosing the right, not from having right action enforced upon fi. The life of man 18 “made beautiful and sweet through self-devotion and self-restraint.”” But this must be chosen voluntarily, else it fails of its purpose. The growth of Leland Stanford Junfor Uni- versity must remain the best evidence of its founder's wisdom. He had the sagacity to recognize the value of higher education and the patriotism to give the rewards of a suc- cessful life to its advancement, He had the rarer wisdom to diseriminate be- tween the real and the temporary in univer- sity organization and management, and his provision is for the genuine and permanent. not for that ‘‘which speedily passes away.’ Still more rare, he had the forethought to leave to each succeeding generation the duty of adapting its detalls of administration and method to the needs of the time. If the founder we love and the founder whose memory we revere has said. “We wil found a university so strong that 1t may en- dure for all the centurfes and whose organi- zation shall be so free and flexible that in it shall reflect the best spirit of he could not have given it greater freedom of development than it has to-day. For the glory of the university must lie in fts freedom, “in that freedom which cannot fall into license, nor loose itself fn wayward- ness, that freedom which knows but one bond or control, the eternal truth of God. Killed While Stealing a Ride. SAN PABLO, May 20.—John Moran, twenty-one years old, while attempting to stéal a ride on a frelght train. was killed here to-day. His companion, Charles Hay- den, of Eleventh and P streéts, South San Francisco, says they were going to Vacaville to pick fruit. Moran resided at 'rlwell(h and M streets, South San Fran- cisco. for Money. Believe They Are Marked for Blackmail by Band of Assassins. g i 0 Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SAN' JOSE, May 2.—“Two, thousand Jdollars or take the consequences” is the | demand made on Charles and Joseph Desimone, two well-known Italian resi- dents of this city, in a letter received on May 13, and which they believes to‘be the demand of a local Mafla. In the letter the blackmailers give warning that as- sassination will be the penalty of fallure to follow instructions. So seriously .do they regard the threat that the police and Sheriff's office were notifled and -since ther Sheriff Langford and deputies have been working on the case. The demand was in the shape of a type- written letter in Italian, but bearing no signature. It stated that unless Charles and Joseph Desimone took $1000 each and gave it to a horseman in a certain place they must take the consequences. Di- rections were given that they were to start from Madrone, eighteen miles south of here, drive along the foot- hill road in the eastern part of the valley, then continue their journey to Bast San Jose and into town. = They were to use & certain wagon. - At a certain point in the road they would meet a man riding a white horse and they were to hand over a bag codtaining the money to this horse- man. This was to have been done on May 15 and on that date the Desimones and Sheriff Langford and posse went over the route. A bag of iron washers that looked like money was placed in a wagon driven by the intended victims. In accordance with instructions a stop of flve minutes was made at each crossing. Half a mile behind followed the Sheriff's posse, who almed to keep in sight of the wagon and | make an attempt to capture the, rider of | the white horse should be appear. He failed to show up. It may be that the man who wrote the letter saw the party following the wagon, or that he never in- tenced to carry out the plot laid. Since that time a similar letter has been eived by the Desimones, written in w nish, and renewing the demand for The Sheriff’s office has been un- able to obtain any clew, to the writer. It may be the work of a joker, but never- theless the Desimones go nowhere now without being armed and belleve it is a plot to extort money from them. 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Those who were present at the ordina- tion were: Bishop Nichols of California, Bishop John- son_of Los Angeles, Archdeacon Emery, Rev. E. J. Lion, Dean of Convocation of San' Fran- cisco; Rev., Messrs, M. D. Wilson (secretary | of convention), E. L. Parsons (rector of the parish), J. 8, McGowan, T. J. Lacey, Ph. D.; L. C. Sanford, E. H. Henson, D. C.'Gardner. | Macon, J. P. Turner, H. A. R. Ramsay, N. | B, W. Gallway, H. S. Jefferys, W. R. Jenvey and Professors Lincoln and Powell of the sem- inary, PSR KILLED BY A BLAST IN GOLDEN HILL MINE William Dewan Loses His Life and James Ledwich Is Badly Injured. GRASS VALLEY, May 20.—As a result of the explosion of a blast this afternoon in the Golden Hill mine Willlam Dewan was instantly killed and James Ledwich probably fatally injured. When the men went on duty in the morning Foreman Richard Barry was informed by the night | men that a blast had missed fire. 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