ers will be needed and this applies to schools of grammar and primary grade to an even greater degree than to high schools. These improvements are certain to come, for we are but just beginning to realize that money spent in education is, even from a pecuniary standpoint, a paying investment for society. More money is wasted in every civilized country from lack of knowledge than would many times pay for the cost of proper education - could we but discover the proper education. Every improvement in educational methods necessitates improvements in all departments of education. Each new higher school or university is born to new responsibilities, every succeeding generation of students to a richer educational birthright; and that institution which fails to meet its responsibilities or misinterprets the direction in which lies true development will sooner or later experience the inexorableness of the law of human progress.

"It seeth everywhere and marketh all:

Do right-it recompenseth! do one wrong-
The equal retribution must be made,
Though DHARMA tarry long.

"It knows not wrath nor pardon; utter-true

Its measures mete, its faultless balance weighs;
Times are as nought: tomorrow it will judge,
Or after many days."

Finally, let us keep in view that whatever be the extent or kind of training which in any given case or under any given circumstances it is practicable to impart, it is above all important to inculcate the spirit of earnest endeavor, the love of truth, and reverence for the laws which underlie alike the forces of nature and of human life. Let us realize also the value of opportunities and leisure for quiet reflection, for unhurried thinking times of respite from the rush and whirl of that mighty torrent of modern activity which threatens to sweep us away like bubbles on its surface. We can not attempt to know all things; it becomes us therefore to confine our attention and to concentrate our

energies upon fewer things, that opportunity may yet re-
main for such mental leisure, with its blessed train of
elevating influences, to steal upon the mind, sweetening it
with the promise of a golden age to come, when intelli-
gence, integrity, and morality shall rule the earth.
As was written thirty years ago by our California poet,
Sill:

Haste! haste! O laggard, leave thy drowsy dreams!
Cram all thy brain with knowledge; clutch and cram!
The earth is wide, the universe is vast-
Thou hast infinity to learn-O haste!

Haste not, haste not, my soul. Infinity?

Thou hast eternity to learn it in.

Thy boundless lesson through the endless years
Hath boundless leisure. Run not like a slave-
Sit like a king, and see the ranks of worlds
Wheel in their cycles onward to thy feet.

ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES.

DAVID STARR Jordan.

To the Class of '95

ness.

Today we give you the last of your childhood's toys, the college degree. The degree, with all its titles and its privileges, is yours. But it will not help you much in life. It belongs to the babyhood of culture. It represents hopes and ideals, the promise of youth - but men and women are judged by achievements, not by dreams. You will value your diploma for the growth to which it bears witFor the warm friendships and sweet associations you will value it again. And still you will prize it as a card of admission to the noblest body of men and women in the world, the band of Collegiate Alumni. All this is now yours. Lay the diploma away now with the best of your youthful treasures. Today you take your place in the world of men. You have reached your majority. One by one, you have passed the goals your teachers have set for you. The goals of the future must be of your own choosing. It is yours now to think, and therefore to act for yourselves. This you can surely do. It will be no new experience. Your training in the past has been such, we trust, that the new freedom will be new in name only. It will come to you with no shock of surprise, for in freedom have been trained for freedom.

you

You of the Class of 1895 have occupied a unique position toward this University. You were the first, the band of pioneers. It has been yours to lead, never to follow. Those

who in future years are drawn to these halls may weigh and compare, balance privilege with privilege, opportunity with opportunity; their choice will be governed by influences which in part have come out from you. They will measure the future by the past. For you there was no past. You trusted the forces the University seemed to represent. You have given your best years of training to this institution when it had no record of achievement, no wealth of tradition. You have been University makers. The highest value of tradition lies in the making of it; the noblest wealth is the wealth of promise. It is the place of the pioneer to make for the future, not to share in the past.

When nearly four years ago we came for the first time together in this quadrangle, you with your teachers were the University. The University lives in the changing units that pass through its halls. The life of its beginning was yours alone. On that first day of October, 1891 a day memorable to all of us, at least it was my fortune to say these words to you:

"It is for us as teachers and students in the University's first year to lay the foundations of a school which may last. as long as human civilization. Ours is the youngest of the universities, but it is heir to the wisdom of all the ages, and with this inheritance it has the promise of a rapid and sturdy growth. Our University has no history to fall back upon; no memories of great teachers haunt its corridors; in none of its rooms appear the traces which show where a great man has ever lived or worked. No tender associations cling, ivy-like, to its fresh new walls. It is hallowed by no traditions; it is hampered by none. finger-post still points forward. Traditions and associations it is ours to make. From our work the future of the University will grow as a splendid lily from a modest bulb. But the future with its glories and its responsibilities will be in other hands. It is ours at the beginning to give the University its form, its tendencies, its customs. The power of precedent will cause to be repeated over and over

Its