Argonauts of 1891 



rado, now professor of Botany in the University of Michigan, 

 was at hand on the opening day. 



A favorite former student of Anderson at the University 

 of Iowa was L. Ward Bannister, '93, now a leading attorney 

 at Denver and a national authority on irrigation law. 



Edwin B. Copeland, '95, son of my old associate and a 

 botanist of repute, sometime dean of the government agri- 

 cultural college at Los Banos in the Philippines, is now a rancher 

 at Chico. 



Caspar W. Hodgson, '96, a teacher in Indiana and California 

 before he entered Stanford, has shown his staunch devotion in 

 unique fashion by undertaking the publication of these memoirs 

 under the imprint of the house established by him. 



Conspicuous as the tallest and still more as one Wilbur 

 of the keenest and most influential students, was 

 Ray Lyman Wilbur of the class of 1896, later as- 

 sistant professor of Physiology, next professor of 

 General Medicine and first dean of the Stanford 

 Medical School, and finally, since 1916, president of 

 the University. A man of intensive scientific train- 

 ing and incisive style in writing and speaking, he is 

 moreover possessed of rare executive capacity, re- 

 vealed in the organization of the Medical School 

 and in general administrative affairs. In 1898 he 

 married Marguerite Blake of the class of 1897, who 

 presides with dignity and devotion as wife, mother, 

 and hostess in the stately new residence now pro- 

 vided for the president. During the war Dr. Wilbur 

 rendered signal service as one of Hoover's leading 

 volunteer associates in the Food Administration. 



But upward of 6000 earnest men and women re- 

 ceived their diplomas at my hands, going forth to 

 varied "usefulness in life," and loyally serving their 

 generation. They are not forgotten neither do Not 

 they forget. 1 



1 For very brief mention of certain early graduates see Appendix G (page 707). 



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