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have the university not large but choice. There should be no more students 

 than could be well taken care of, no more departments th'an could be placed in 

 master hands, no teachers to whom the students could not look up as to men 

 whose work and life should be an inspiration to them. The buildings should 

 be beautiful, for to see beautiful things in a laud of beauty is one of the greatest 

 elements in the refinement of clean men and women. Great libraries and great 

 collections the university should have, but libraries and collections should be 

 chosen for their fitness in the training of men. And with all the activities of 

 athletics, of scholarly research, of the applications of science to engineering, the 

 spirit of " self-devotion and of self-restraint," by which lives have been " made 

 beautiful and sweet " through all the centuries should rise above all else, 

 dominating the lower aspirations and activities as the great church towers 

 above the red tiles of the lower buildings. But for all this, the Church should 

 exist for men — for the actual men who enter its actual doors — not men for the 

 Church. For this reason, any special alliance with any of the historic churches 

 of Christendom is forever forbidden. 



We do not yet see all these things. Rome was not built in a day, nor 

 Stanford in- a century. But as the old pioneers returning now behold in solid 

 stone the dream-castles of their college days, so shall you, Stanford men and 

 women, find here as you come back to future reunions, the university of your 

 dreams, the university of great libraries and noble teachers, the university of 

 the perfect democracy of literature and science, " of self-devotion and of self- 

 restraint," the university in which earnest men and women find the best possible 

 preparation for work in life, the university which sends out men who will make 

 the future of the republic worthy of the glories of its past, the university of 

 the plans and hopes of Leland Stanford, the university of the faith and work 

 and prayer of Jane Lathrop Stanford. 



