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...completed within three years. Otherwise it is likely to remain in abeyance until he returns, as stipulated by the trustees when he left. Meanwhile, Stanford buzzes secretly but excitedly, torn by fierce controversy. The tall, once robust chancellor hears on his death bed the names of the chief protagonists???Herbert Hoover, Secretary Wilbur, Acting President Robert Eckles Swain?all of them his students once. If he was sorry not to live to see them make Stanford what he had dreamed it, he had other great memories to fall back on. His life at Stanford was only one of three lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Farm | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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