18913 Higher Education in California 



prevailing at Berkeley, would mean simply a division 

 of the number, while a lowered standard would be 

 fatal to higher education in the state generally, as 

 well as to the ideals which California had stead- 

 fastly maintained. 



From other speakers also we received advice and Advke 

 warning — some of it a bit superfluous, for the '^^'^ . 

 California faculty was then composed partly of its ''''"'"■'"^ 

 own graduates, though a few of the higher places 

 were held by men called years before from Yale 

 and Michigan. The Stanford aggregation, on the 

 contrary, although small at the time, bore the 

 stamp of various institutions in the East and in 

 Europe. 



It need hardly be said that educational conditions in Call- Changed 

 fornia have changed amazingly since 1891. During the in- conditions 

 terval its population has risen from 2,000,000 to about 3,800,000, 

 while the number of high school students ^ — 138,600 in 1919, 

 with some 35,000 graduates — is now upward of 200 times 

 that of 1 891. Part of the increased appreciation of advanced 

 education was due, especially at first, to the liberalizing in- 

 fluence of Stanford University. 



For the opening exercises a platform was erected ne 

 under the arch at the north end of the Quadrangle, oz-^^'^s 

 and in the Court seats were placed for the students 

 and the 1500 others who formed the body of the 

 audience. As is usual in early October, the day was 

 brilliant. Addresses were made by Senator Stan- 

 ford, by Judge Shafter as representative of the 

 board of trustees, and by myself. In my discourse 

 I ventured to portray the future of a new and well- 



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