(4 of 6)
Long after he is gone Stanford will vividly remember its Grand Old Man— his Thursday evenings at-home in a big firelit living room which he specially rebuilt to make room for more friends and conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting in the sun with his blackthorn stick and shepherd dog.
Stanford Today. Under the driving, organizing genius of Wilbur, Hoover & friends, Stanford has traveled far. With an endowment of some $43,500.000 of which about $12.000,000 represents the physical plant, it is no longer quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game days. Nearby is the stadium which seats 90,000 people. The vast Stanford campus includes one of the finest Pacific Coast golf courses, two lakes, a polo field as well as two great gymnasiums and many a smaller playing field and game court. Dotted with eucalyptus trees, handsomely landscaped, it encloses a central group of rambling Spanish-Romanesque buildings. Most of the male students live in dormitories. Though there are many fraternities (with houses of their own) the dormitory groups, which have intramural eating clubs and cliques, are more influential in campus affairs. Besides the girls' dormitory there are many sorority houses. Since the number of young ladies is limited by Senator Stanford's will to 500, a boy who "dates" a co-ed is known as one who "crashes the 500."
Trustees Meeting. Potent Californians are the trustees who meet this week to decide the question which has heated up many a Stanford alumnus: Shall Dr. Wilbur continue to administer the university from Washington, or shall complete control be given to Acting President Robert Eckles Swain? Among the trustees are: Banker Leland Whitman Cutler, of Bacon, Cutler & Cooke in San Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railway. Absent will be Trustee Herbert Hoover.