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The next day - having spent the intervening hours educating myself - I was able to remind everyone else that Stanford's first president, David Starr Jordan, chose Die Luft der Freiheit weht ("The wind of freedom blows") as the informal motto. It still can be found in the President's seal, which adorns the front cover of your printed program. It is obvious - at least it is obvious to me - that Jordan put it there in German, rather than in English, in order to enable me to speculate, at my first press conference, that the trustees had chosen me because they wanted a president who could pronounce the original properly. Alas, I have bad news for the Board of Trustees. Historical research shows that the original of the original is in Latin and reads videtis illam spirare libertatis auram. Since it is notorious that no two students of Latin the world over can agree on its pronunciation, there is no particular reason why my pronunciation should be preferred. If, under these circumstances

Inaugural Address STANFORD UNIVERSITY O FFICE OF THE P RESIDENT G ERHARD C ASPER This is the text of the inaugural address by Gerhard Casper, President of Stanford University, on October 2, 1992. Inaugural Address by Gerhard Casper On March 17, when I first arrived on the Farm in my new role as President-elect, I was put to what you might call an "advanced placement test." I flunked it -; as my fellow first-year students will be reassured, if not delighted, to learn. I had dinner with a group of excellent people to discuss the following day's news conference when Professor Sheehan, of the Hist

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