May 30, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



827 



CEANCELLOE JORDAN AND PEESIDENT 

 BEANNEE 

 At the coinmencement of Leland Stanford 

 Junior University on May 19 Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan made a statement as follows: 



I wish at this time to make a personal state- 

 ment. In the interest of larger duties toward the 

 university and toward the public, I have expressed 

 to the board of trustees the wish to be relieved so 

 far as may be from routine duties of the presi- 

 dency. 



In appreciation of this wish, and for the ex- 

 pressed purpose of allowing me ' ' to represent 

 more fully the university in its functions toward 

 the public, and the relations of the university to 

 educational agencies outside the university itself, ' ' 

 the board of trustees at its meeting on May 23 

 will create the new ofEce of chancellor of the 

 university. 



The position of president will be filled by Dr. 

 John Oasper Branner, my intimate friend for 

 forty-three years, my academic colleague for 

 twenty-nine years, and, as vice-president of the 

 university for fifteen years, my closest administra- 

 tive associate. 



In accepting the chancellorship, and withdraw- 

 ing from the immediate direction of administra- 

 tive affairs, I shall abate no part of my interest 

 in the university to which I have given the best 

 years of my life, and to which I hope the best 

 that remains will also be dedicated. 



In placing the immediate control in the hands 

 of one of the ablest of American scholars, one of 

 the most successful of teachers and most loyal of 

 men, I am sure that the board of trustees has 

 made no mistake. So long as Dr. Branner shall 

 direct its affairs the university will continue to 

 develop the highest purposes of its founders, and 

 of our colleagues, who, through twenty-two event- 

 ful years, have maintained and carried forward its 

 standards and ideals. 



Dr. J. M. Stillman then made the following 

 statement : 



With the consent of the president and at the 

 request of members of the board of trustees, I am 

 to speak a word of appreciation and welcome to 

 President Jordan on assuming the new dignity of 

 the chancellorship of the university. 



The creation of this office has had two purposes: 

 First — the division 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 

 modem 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 inspiration 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 recognized 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 sym- 

 pathetic leaders as Chancellor Jordan and Presi- 

 dent Branner, will promote the efficiency, useful- 

 ness 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 development, I venture to 

 assuine that I express the sentiment of the whole 

 university community in extending to Chancellor 

 Jordan our congratulations upon his well-deserved 

 and welcome respite from a large share of admin- 

 istrative detail, and upon his increased opportuni- 

 ties for the highest service not only to this his 

 university, but to the wider world beyond its gates. 



TEE PENSION PLAN OF TEE AMEEICAN 

 MUSEUM OF NATUBAL EISTOBY 

 For a long time the trustees of the American 

 Museum of Natural History have had under 

 consideration a plan for adequately providing 

 for employees who were of mature age or who 

 had been long in the service, and who through 

 their efficiency and faithfulness were entitled 

 to some recognition. A plan was finally 

 worked out by a committee of trustees and a 

 committee of employees and was adopted by 

 the trustees at the annual meeting in Feb- 



