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the colleges at Berkeley, and the colleges of Medicine.
Dentistry, and Pharmacy, and in a desultory way they
have done good work for their Alma Mater. But the
last session of the Legislature felt the power of these
alumni when they all work together, as they did for
the passage of the one-cent law, and the Affiliated
College Building law.
A belief that that power should by organization be
made available for other purposes, equally good, and
equally legitimate, but not so obvious as in themselves
to command the activity of every son of the University, has led to the now nearly completed federation of
the associations.
The control of the new federation is vested in a
council to be composed of representatives from each
departmental association, twenty-one in all. To them
is given power "to take all necessary steps to foster
culture, and to promote professional training in California; to advance all the interests of the University
of California; to promote intercourse, good fellowship, and co-operation among all the graduates," provided that their actions do not interfere with any
activity of the separate departments. A two-thirds
vote is required to carry any measure of the council.
The effect of all this seems to be that the new
federation will have power to do many things, if they
can give reasons with their recommendations that by
their sweet reasonableness shall command a practically
unanimous consent among the alumni. If it be objected that such amiable advice can have but little
weight and that the council should have a larger
measure of authority, it is to be replied that the
several associations have no power to command the
services of a single alumnus without his consent, and
so they could not delegate a power they did not
possess.
With such a nucleus of disinterested workers as the
twenty-five hundred or so of the alumni of the University of California, increasing at the rate of several
hundred a year, and dispersed all through the State in
positions of trust and influence, many public-spirited
movements may be helped, especially where they are
of the kind so to commend themselves to intelligent
people that the Stanford alumni, those of Eastern colleges, and the great body of educated people who
belong to no college, will also lend their aid.
And it is also true that there are a great many
things which everybody knows ought to be done, and
can be done, if a large number of people work at
them simultaneously, which nobody attempts alone
because it seems futile. The Augean stable was a
labor to Hercules, but it could have been easily
handled by a properly numerous corps of broom
wielders.
It is this kind of work,-for principles not men,for the good of all, not for the advantage of any,
that the State has a right to expect of the sons she
has educated. She trains them in military tactics expressly that she may call upon them in her need, and
her right to their help is no less complete in the
equally intense struggles of peace.
Governor Lord, of Oregon
(See frontispiece).
WILLIAM PAINE LORD, governor of the State of
Oregon, was born in Delaware in 1839. His first
instruction was in a school of Quakers; then for a
time he received private tuition, and next attended
Fairfield College, New York, where he was graduated
in 1860, with the highest honors of the class. Next
he read law under the direction of Judge George P.
Fisher, of the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia. A habit of careful and persistent attention was then formed, and to this day is
characteristic of him. Any matter which engages his
notice receives earnest thought and thorough examination. In the spring of 1862 young Lord was active
in the formation of the First Battalion of Delaware
Cavalry, and was chosen captain of one of its four
companies. The battalion was soon increased to
seven companies, when Captain Lord was promoted to
the rank of major. The battalion was attached to the
Army of the Potomac, and Major Lord was active in
its important engagements, until detailed as judgeadvocate on the staff of General Lew Wallace. At
the end of the war the young officer resumed his law
studies, and having been graduated at the Albany Law
School, was admitted to the bar of the State of New
York in 1866. He was then appointed a lieutenant in
the Second United States Artillery, and after seeing
service at forts Alcatraz and Steilacoom, and in the
territory of Alaska, resigned in 1868 and went to
Salem, Oregon, where he engaged in the practise of
law. Then commenced the successful civil career of
Major Lord, as his friends were accustomed to call
him. His attention to interests of clients, his thorough
preparation of his cases, his fairness and courtesy to
adversaries, his knowledge of law and aptness in applying its remedies, soon brought him a lucrative practise and popularity, and in 1870 he was chosen city
attorney of the capital city of his adopted State. His
successful conduct of certain important litigation, in
which the city was engaged, added to his growing
prominence. In 1878 he was chosen State Senator for
Marion county, for four years, and resigned in 1880 to
accept the nomination for justice of the supreme
court, at the hands of the Republican party, whose
principles he had espoused in his youth. He was
chosen supreme judge by a good majority, and was
twice re-elected, in 1882 and 1888, by increasing majorities. To the bench Justice Lord brought his carefully trained and well-stored mind, and his opinions
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