The Days of a Man 1891 



NO had passed, the "Student Body," already organized, 



smoking passed a resolution that there should be no smoking 



l ^uad- in the Quadrangle (for which we all felt a kind of 



Tangle reverence) nor in any of the academic buildings. 



The tradition then established has ever since been 



respected by both students and faculty. 



As to the official relation of the University to 

 religion and morals, Mr. Stanford had clearly ex- 

 pressed his general purpose in the grant of endow- 

 ment. At the outset one of the buildings of the 

 Inner Quadrangle was accordingly set aside to serve 

 as temporary Chapel, 1 and there, for ten years, as 

 Sunday I have said, the University conducted regular Sunday 

 services services, the sermons being delivered by neighboring 

 clergymen, occasional visitors from the East, and 

 certain members of the faculty, especially Dr. 

 Thoburn, to whom I shall soon pay my tribute. 

 The institution being non-sectarian, no line was 

 drawn among religious organizations. One of our 

 most welcome preachers, for example, was Rabbi 

 Jacob Voorsanger of San Francisco. Others were 

 Dr. Charles R. Brown, then pastor of a Con- 

 gregational church in Oakland and now dean of 

 the Yale Divinity School, Dr. Horatio Stebbins 

 of the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco, 

 and Dr. Robert Mackenzie of the First Presby- 

 terian. 



The theory and practice of religious teaching as 

 it appeared at Stanford were early trenchantly dis- 

 cussed by a sophomore of the day, Arthur M. Cath- 

 cart, since a member of the law faculty. In a student 

 publication, 2 he writes as follows : 



1 Now known as "the Little Theater." 



2 The Sequoia, Vol. Ill, page 21; 1894. 



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