Appendix B 



can be no nobler motto than that inscribed by the great scholar 

 of the last century over his home at Hammarby: "Innocue 

 vivito; numen adest." Live blameless; God is near. "This," 

 said Linnaeus, "is the wisdom of my life." Every advance 

 which we make toward the realization of the truth of the 

 permanence and immanence of law, brings us nearer to Him 

 who is the First Cause of all law and all phenomena. 



While the work of the teachers must make the kernel of the 

 university, we rejoice that here at Palo Alto even the husks 

 are beautiful. Beauty and fitness are great forces in education. 

 Every object with which the young mind comes in contact 

 leaves on it its trace. 



Plain living has ever gone with high thinking. But grace 

 and fitness have an educative power too often forgotten in 

 this utilitarian age. These long corridors with their stately 

 arches, these circles of waving palms, will have their part in 

 the students' training as surely as the chemical laboratory or 

 the seminary room. Each stone in the quadrangle shall teach 

 its lesson of grace and of genuineness, and occupy a warm place 

 in every student's heart. Pictures of this fair region will cling 

 to his memory amid the figures of the draughting-room. He 

 will not forget the fine waves of our two mountain ranges, over- 

 arched by a soft blue Grecian sky, nor the ancient oak trees, 

 nor the gently sloping fields, changing from vivid green to 

 richest yellow, as the seasons change. The noble pillars of the 

 gallery of art, its rich treasures, the choicest remains of the 

 ideals of past ages — all these, and a hundred other things 

 which each one will find out for himself, shall fill his mind with 

 bright pictures, never to be rubbed out in the wear of life. Thus 

 in the character of every student shall be left some imperish- 

 able trace of the beauty of Palo Alto. 



The Golden Age of California begins when its gold is used 

 for purposes like this. From such deeds must rise the new Cali- 

 fornia of the coming century, no longer the California of the 

 gold-seeker and the adventurer, but the abode of high-minded 

 men and women, training in the wisdom of the ages, and imbued 

 with the love of nature, the love of man, and the love of God. 

 And bright indeed will be the future of our state if, in the use- 

 fulness of the university, every hope and prayer of the founders 

 shall be realized. 



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