APPENDIXES 



To DAVID STARR JORDAN, JANUARY 19, 1911 



A FIFTH of a century has passed since you invited a couple of 

 dozen young idealists to help you found a university at El 

 Dorado. "Go and sell all that you have, and come, follow me." 

 Fortunate we felt if all we had would come to enough to furnish 

 us forth to that Promised Land. Once there, we were no longer 

 to be ridden by the night-hag of material care. Our children 

 should grow up in the sunshine, strong, beautiful, and wise, 

 while we, unimpeded by precedent, unhampered by prejudice, 

 should remake history. For we were elders of the earth and in 

 the morning of the times. 



A nobler Athens shall arise, 



And to remoter time 

 Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, 



The splendor of her prime. 



So we dreamed. 



Tonight, a scant dozen veterans, grizzled and wayworn, we 

 look back with somewhat grim wistfulness. Oh, we never look 

 back, except upon anniversaries! And then our eyes are April 

 with tears and smiles. An X-ray photograph of the goings-on 

 in our brains twenty years syne, might furnish another Cer- 

 vantes with material for a dozen Don Quixotes. I seem to recall 

 that one of my own grave perplexities was: How to spend that 

 ten thousand dollars for books the first year never having 

 had a hundred dollars at one time for the purpose, and not yet 

 strong in the partnership of a great bibliographer like Fluegel. 

 But I need not have worried. 



Well, it was a dream worth having. But there are those to 

 testify that it was not all a dream. People who have studied the 

 cedar of Lebanon with Dudley, the hyssop in the wall with 

 Campbell, the tribes of the sea with Gilbert, the Face of the 

 Earth with Branner, the "Impassioned expression that is in 

 the countenance of all science" with Newcomer, look to this 

 place as the sun-worshiper looks to the East. To Jordan, above 

 all, they owe that simple, sturdy, serene attitude toward religio- 



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