1913] Personal Statements 



The creation of this office has two purposes: First The divi- 

 sion between the offices of Chancellor and President of the burden 

 of administrative duties and responsibilities hitherto vested solely 

 in the President, and which the development of the modern 

 university has made increasingly laborious and onerous. Second 

 In high appreciation of the great service President Jordan 

 has rendered and is rendering, not merely to this University 

 but to the world's work in the cause of education, science, and 

 civilization, it is intended that the institution of this new office 

 shall, by thus relieving him of much of the routine of executive 

 work, enable him to devote his attention in increasing measure to 

 the greater problems within and without the University. 



For twenty-two years President Jordan has been the in- 

 spiration of Stanford University. What it is, is due mainly to 

 his high ideals, his breadth of outlook, and warmth of sympathy. 

 These qualities and abilities the University needs in the future 

 as in the past, and these the office of Chancellor ensures us. 

 Trustees and Faculty, Alumni and Students, will continue to 

 profit by his wisdom and his enthusiasms. But it is also recog- 

 nized that the world at large has a claim upon his abilities which 

 it should be the mission of Stanford to further and to encourage. 



In the belief that the division of administrative functions 

 between two such cooperative and sympathetic leaders as 

 Chancellor Jordan and President Branner will promote the 

 efficiency, usefulness, and influence of the University, and that 

 under their joint guidance the aims and ideals of Stanford 

 University will be carried forward to greater and grander develop- 

 ment, I venture to assume that I express the sentiment of the 

 whole University community in extending to Chancellor Jordan 

 our congratulations upon his well-deserved and welcome res- 

 pite from a large share of administrative detail, and upon his 

 increased opportunities for the highest service not only to this 

 his University, but to the wider world beyond its gates. 



The audience, having previously heard nothing of 

 the proposed change, was plainly dazed, not knowing 

 what to think or expect in the future, because during 

 twenty-two years I had become so identified in 

 their minds with the University itself that they could 



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