E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Marvin A. Hodges, and Project Gutenbert Distributed Proofreaders THE CALL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY An Address to Young Men By DAVID STARR JORDAN Chancellor of Leland Stanford Junior University 1903 To Vernon Lyman Kellogg _So live that your afterself– the man you ought to be–may in his time be possible