The Days of a Man 1907 



ous than error." The Thomas Welton Stanford fel- 

 lowship being perpetual, its results through the com- 

 ing years bid fair to be of the greatest constructive 

 value in the study of human psychology. 



Its donor was a singularly sincere man, with lofty 

 ideals in education and ethics. In his circle of friends, 

 few but most devoted, two were especially near 

 John Ross, a clear-headed Scotchman, and his own 

 secretary, William J. Crook, whose son, Welton J. 

 Crook, followed me to Stanford, becoming in due 

 time a successful mining engineer and teacher of 

 mining. 



Found*- While in Melbourne I gave the dedicatory address 

 tion of the at tne foundation of the "Workingmen's College," 



Working- i i r 11 i i 



men > s and in the course of my talk ventured to criticize the 

 College name of the institution, on the ground that in a 

 democracy all should be "working men," and educa- 

 tion knows not caste or class. A parent's status gives 

 no infallible indication as to what sort of training a 

 youth may need to make the most of inborn powers, 

 and it is a false system which provides one type of 

 school for the rich, another for the poor. Mr. Stan- 

 ford, who had not attended a public meeting for 

 years, sat in a front seat and seemed much pleased 

 with my remarks. 



In company with him I went (as his guest) on a 

 tour of several days across the Break o' Day Range in 

 Victoria to the Blacks' Spur, 1 a wooded mountain on 

 Giant which are scattered giant " stringy-bark gum trees" 

 eucalyptus Eucalyptus amygdaliua. These rival in girth and over- 

 top in height the mighty sequoias of the Sierra 

 Nevada, the largest of them measuring about thirty- 



1 Formerly inhabited by a colony of natives. 

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