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Murbpock & COMPANY, 35 THIRD STREET, 532 CLAY STREET, S. F. i S. F. Rc de egg a are ER Ss EET Tw vie 2 = & [i L = = FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY. 31 DAVID STARK JORDAN, LL. D., President of the University. ANDREW DicksoN WHITE, LL. D., L. H. D., Non-resident Professor of European History. - 29 GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD, A.M., Professor of History. Joun Caspar BRANNER, Ph. D., Professor of Geology 24 OLIVER PEEBLES JENKINS, Ph, D., Professor of Er dialony and Histology. 23 JouN HENRY CoMSTOCK, B. S., Professor of Entomology. 18 MELVILLE BEST ANDERSON, A. M., Professor of English Lit- erature. 26 JoHN MAXxsoN STILLMAN, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry. 8 FERNANDO SANFORD, M. S., Professor of Physics. 32 HENRY ALFRED Topp, Ph. D., Professor of the Romance Languages. 17 CHARLES DavID MARX, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. 30 JosepPH SWAIN, M. S., Professor of Mathematics. 22 ERNEST MONDELL PEASE, A. M., Professor of the Latin Lan- guage and Literature. 11 HORACE BIGELOW GALE, B. S., Professor of Mechanical En- gineering. 2 CHARLES HENRY GILBERT, Ph. D., Professor of Zoology. 7 DoucLAs HouGHTON CAMPBELL, Ph. D., Professor of Crypto- gramic Botany. EARL BARNES, M. S., Professor of Education and Secretary 3 THomAs DENisoN Woop, A. M., M. D., Professor of Physical Training and Hygiene, * ALBERT WILLIAM SmiTH, M. M. E., Professor of Machinery and Machine Designing. * EwALD FLUGEL, Ph. D., Professor of English Philology. * CHARLES BENJAMIN WING, C. E., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering. * FRANK ANGELL, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology. * LEANDER MILLER Hoskins, C. E., Professor of Pure and Applied Mechanics. * JosEPH SHILLINGTON OYSTER, U. S. A., Professor of Military Science and Tactics. * Amos GriswoLD WARNER, Ph. D., Professor of Economics. * ROBERT E. ALLARDICE, A. M., Professor of Mathematics. 25s GEORGE MANN RICHARDSON, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. 10 JAMES OWEN GRIFFIN, Associate Professor of German. * ALBERT PRUDEN CARMEN, M. S., Associate Professor of Physics. 13 EDWARD HowARrD GRIGGS, A. M., Associate Professor of Ethics. * JurLius GOEBEL, Ph. D., Associate Professor of German. WalTER MILLER, A. M., Associate Professor of Greek and atin. 19 ORRIN LESLIE ELriort, Ph. D., President's Secretary and Registrar. 9 GEORGE HoLMEs BRYANT, B. S., Assistant Professor of Me- chanical Engineering and Superintendent of the Shops. of the Faculty. Togs it 4 EpwiN HAMLIN WOODRUFF, LL. B., Librarian. » @ ng ne pre — En eS i: 1 i A £ ! ‘F 5 MARTIN WRIGHT SAMPSON, A. M., Assistant Professor of Eng- lish. * ARLEY BARTHLOW SHOW, A. M., Assistant Professor of History. * MARY SHELDON BARNES, A. B., Assistant Professor of History. * Emory Evans SMmiTH, Assistant Professor of Horticulture. * WILLIAM JosEPH HUSSEY, B. S., Assistant Professor of Astron- omy, and Instructor in Mathematics. 27 BoLToN Coit BRowN, M. P., Assistant Professor of Drawing. 15 SAMUEL JACQUES BRUN, B. S., Assistant Professor of French. 12 ALPHONSO GERALD NEWCOMER, A. M., Assistant Professor of English. * WiLLiAM HENRY HUDSON, Assistant Professor of English. * HENRY BURROWES LATHROP, A. B., Assistant Professor of English. * James PERRIN SMITH, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Miner- alogy. 28 ARTHUR GORDON LAIRD, Ph. D., Instructor in Greek. 1 Lours ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, Instructor in Woodworking. 6 WiLLiaAM HowARD MILLER, A. B., Instructor in Mathematics. JouN ANTHONY MILLER, A. B., Instructor in Mathematics. 21 ELLEN Louis LoweLL, Instructor in Physical Training. * MERRITT EUGENE TAYLOR, M. S., Instructor in Physics. 20 ELsA Lovina AMES, Instructor in Drawing. 33 Lupwic HEINRICH GRrAU, Ph. D., Instructor in German, and Acting Instructor in Latin. * ARTHUR BRIDGEMAN CLARK, M. Ar., Instructor in Drawing and Architectural Draughting. * WALTER O. BLACK, M. S., Instructor in Physical Training. * FREDERICK CONVERSE CLARK, Ph. D., Instructor in Political Science. WILLIS GRANT JOHNSON, Assistant in Entomology. * LioNEL REMOND LENNOX, Ph. D., Instructor in Chemistry. 14 CHARLES ELLwoop Cox, A. B., Instructor in Mathematics. 16 EpwARD THOMAS ADAMS, Assistant in Mechanical Draughting. * GEORGE ARCHIBALD CLARK, B. L., Assistant in Stenography. * FRANK M. McFARLAND, Assistant in Physiology. * CHARLES W. GREEN, Assistant in Physiology. * GEORGE CLINTON PRICE, Assistant in Zoology. LECTURERS. DanNieL Kirkwoop, LL. D., Non-resident Lecturer on As- tronomy. JacoB GouLDp ScHURMAN, D. Sc., Non-resident Lecturer on Ethics. OTHER OFFICERS. BERT FESLER, A. B., Master of Encina Hall. ELLEN FRANCES THOMPSON, Mistress of Roble Hall. CHARLES EDWARD HoDGEs, Resident Architect. THoMmAs HENRY DoucLaAs, Forester. HENRY B. SHACKLEFORD, Superintendent of Grounds. Curtis M. BARKER, Civil Engineer. RoBERT HENRY MOORE, Chief:Engineer. GEORGE ADDERSON, Chief Steward. * Appointments taking effect in 1892-3. EINE LL ena The Laying of the Corner-stone by Senator and Mrs. Stanford, May 14, 1887. SR AP A OR A THE UNIVERSITY KEY-NOTE. “You must exercise your own judgment.”’— Zelegram from Senator Stanford. ROBABLY since the world began no university of the size and completeness of that to which this book is devoted has come to so high a degree of efficiency in so short a time. A little more than a year ago, Dr. Jordan was the President of the State University, at Bloomington, Indiana, and the mem- bers of his present Faculty were scattered over the face of the civilized world. On Saturday, the 21st of March, 1891, Mr. and Mrs. Stanford visited Bloomington, and offered Dr. Jordan the Presidency of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, which he accepted the following Monday. The policy of the Founders has been to have the President select his own Faculty, aid it was understood that for the first year but fifteen appointments would be made, because it was thought that such a number could handle all the students likely to present themselves. A general idea prevailed that perhaps two hundred students would be registered. Instead of this, however, such has been the confidence in the institution, that five hundred and fifty -nine have been registered; and very early in the year it became necessary to add others to the “original fifteen,”” and now the Faculty numbers over sixty members, and carries on work in some twenty-five distinct departments. Undoubtedly, this marked success is due primarily to the selection by the Founders of a President whose ideas are of a kind that naturally breed success, and to their policy of leaving him free to use these ideas in the selection of his Faculty, and to his policy in leaving his Faculty unhampered, and to the action of the University in leaving the students, both in their private life and in their University work, as free as possible. This University may be described as pre-eminently the place where everybody, from the President to the last-registered Freshman, is expected to ‘‘act according to the dictates of his best judg- ment.”” This is the key-note of the whole University life. All the work in the University — with the single exception of two hours of English—is elective. Every member of the Faculty teaches as seems to him best, and for results is respon- sible only to the President. This is probably the secret of that absolute harmony that has prevailed during the year. Each man has certain business to attend to, and no person, or committee, or ‘“‘majority vote,” interferes with his way of attending to it. It is the idea of ‘‘specialized function,” common to all highly organized bodies — the idea of each person attending to his own business, instead of the cruder and less efficient idea of every- body attending to everybody’s business. Harvard University and Leland Stanford Jr. University are to-day the only Univer- sities on the continent that have dared fully to trust themselves to this idea. Nevertheless, this is the idea that will prevail ; the idea that will become embodied in the more highly organized institutions, just as it is embodied in the more highly organized animals. And the success that in theory should attend this policy has attended it — has attended it to a degree surprising even to those who had most faith in its success. Every department in the University has succeeded, and the University, as a whole, has succeeded. Its students have trebled the expected number, and its Faculty has been forced to quadruple itself to meet demands. The students have done good work, and everything has gone on so quietly and uninterruptedly that it has been difficult to realize that this is actually our first year of existence. The University opened on the appointed day, classes began, lectures were given, recitations conducted, and laboratory work undertaken promptly as per schedule. The flesh-and-blood University — the University of personal- ities, thoughts, and ideas, as distinguished from the University of stone and mortar, has sprung into full existence and energetic activity almost in a day ; nor, despite its rapid growth, has it at any time showed symptoms of being soft in the bones or weak in nerve or sinew. Although the policy of giving students absolute freedom, or, as has been said, ‘letting them use their common-sense,’ was declared impracticable and dangerous, especially in their private life in the dormitories and elsewhere, yet the result has not justified that declaration. At first the boys in Encina x: he 0 . . RR Le i i a i i a i i A i i i a ——— [J Hall howled at each other out of adjacent windows a good deal; but since that amusement went stale, Encina is almost monotonous in its quiet regularity. At Roble no worse villainy than carrying crackers and fruit from the tables to the rooms has developed. The year’s record is entirely on the side of those who have thought that common-sense — even a student’s common-sense — is, on the whole, more far-reaching and reliable than any code of rules and regulations could be. The relations between the Faculty and the student body are all that could be desired. The two stand together, and realize that their interests are one. There has been no disturbance or serious difference between the Faculty and the students over any matter, nor between student factions, or between different parts of the Faculty. There has been no failure, no scandal, no disappointment. This is the University without a past. It is its privilege to begin at the point which others have reached after much labor and experiment. It begins abreast of the oldest, and stands with Harvard for individual freedom and individual responsi- bility. And it stands ahead of Harvard in the admission of women. It stands for teaching a student that he is responsible for his own acts, and must take their consequences. It stands for the same idea in the Faculty. And there is no idea more important to have well understood in this free land. The true definition of liberty cannot be too well understood. Any one —any student — cannot too soon learn that his responsibilities Roble Hall, young women’s Dormitory. 8 7 .- aaa a —_— E oo — . — om tg im seis EE Ea i I ee ee a i ————— always keep pace with his liberties ; that freedom is but another name for opportunity and responsibility. The great struggle of civilized man has been for liberty and freedom; and to a large extent he has got them. Now he has to learn how to use them. This is University work. It is a work in which the Leland WHERE WE wi the University was established, people in the East said : “But where will the students come from?’ This table shows where they came from this year : Resi- Place dence. of Birth, Resi- Place dence. of Birth, California 177 Missouri 19 Indiana 47 3 17 Massachusetts 15 Washington 13 Minnesota 8 New York 23 27 Pennsylvania 41 Kansas . 9 Montana ..... ..... ... : 12 Nebraska Stanford Jr. University has already taken a leading place, and in which, we may hope, she will for ages to come continue to take a leading place, fulfilling thus the object for which her millions have been given and her men been brought together — that of ‘“exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization,” and of teaching ‘‘the blessings of liberty regulated by law.” COME FROM. New Hampshire Wisconsin Arizona Vermont Wyoming Canada... ...........0 0000 - oH HOW HPD WN AN OH Kentucky Maine... .. .... .. .... New Jersey North Dakota South Dakota Connecticut ... Louisiana Rhode Island Germany Netherlands UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS. HE following departments have been established: Greek; Latin ; Germanic Languages; Romance Languages ; English Language and Literature; Philosophy; Ethics; Education; History ; Political Science; Mathematics; Physics; Chemistry ; Botany; Entomology; Horticulture; Physiology; Physical Training ; Zoology; Geology; Drawing; Mining Engineering ; Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Military Science and Tactics. — 2 = 1. Encina Hall. 3. Encina Tennis Courts. 5s. North Entrance to Quadrangle. 2. Roble Hall. 4. Art Museum. pointe Imm, Ea A i ae ia ic rh iti ri A -- AP THE GYMNASIA NCINA GYMNASIUM, near the men’s dormitory, a temporary wooden structure, suitable for five hundred men, was finished in December, and the apparatus was ready for work in May. Besides the ordinary in-door gymnasium outfit, there is one of the finest fields in the country for track athletics. ‘‘The athletic field of thirteen and one-half acres contains, in addition to four tennis-courts, a quarter-mile running track, with space inside for base-ball and field sports. All this is perfectly graded, drained and covered with cinders, clay or sand, as the use of each area demands. Beyond the oval is the grass foot-ball field.” Mr. Black will conduct the classes in gymnastics next year. Roble Gymnasium, near the women’s dormitory, also a tem- porary but very tastefully designed building, to accommodate one hundred persons, was finished during the winter, and the apparatus was ready for work by the end of the year. Miss Lowell conducts the class work in gymnastics. The whole Physical Training Department is in Dr. Wood's hands, and the work done is based entirely on definite tests and measurements of individuals, and it counts towards graduation. The year’s first athletic event of general interest was a game of ball between the Faculty and the Seniors. The Faculty nine consisted of Dr. Jordan, Professor Marx, Professor Howard, AND ATHLETICS. Mr. Newcomer, Dr. Wood, Professor Bryant, Professor Swain, Professor Richardson, and one of the students. The students won the game. : | \ | The next important event was the hotly contested foot-ball Tro fi game played against the University of California, in San Fran- cisco, in which Stanford won ; 14 to 10. Soon after this, Stanford also defeated Berkeley at base-ball. The flatness of the surrounding country, and the great smooth quadrangle, a quarter of a mile around, have given great prom- inence to bicycling. Almost every one has had the ‘bicycle fever,” and so many have got themselves wheels, that literally almost the University ‘‘ goes on wheels.”” No less than seventeen wheels are ridden in the Faculty alone. The riders include several ladies. Even President Jordan has mounted a wheel, and inquired its price; but he finally bought a saddle-horse instead. - One day in April Encina’s spotted dog chased a jack-rabbit through the quadrangle. The rabbit came in under the east- ern tower, and went out under the western. The dog didn’t catch him. On May 27th, the Faculty played the Sophomores a game of base-ball, and beat them — 22 to 21. ENCINA HALL — YOUNG MEN’S DORMITORY. HIS building furnishes excellent accommodations for about three hundred students. At one time during the year there were 316 persons living here. Mr. Fesler, Master of Encina Hall, when asked what were the rules of the hall, said there were none ; that the boys ‘just used their common-sense.” * : The general average of health this year has been high. Electric light is turned off at 10:30, and after that candles are used. Several distinguished guests have stayed here—among them, President Eliot, of Harvard ; ex-President White, of Cornell ; Dr. Schurman, of Cornell; Professor Geo. L. Burr, of Cornell, and Professor and Mrs. Comstock, of Cornell. Mr. and Mrs. Com- stock occupied quarters here for about ten weeks. # « The behavior of the students has been worthy of high commendation.”’— (Extract from Mr, Fesler’s report to the President.) STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS. STUDENT’S Christian Association, which includes a Y. M.C. A. and a Y. W. C. A, has been organized. Also, there have been organized, for various purposes, the following : — Associated Students; Co-operative Association; Athletic Association; Encinal Glee Club; Students’ Con- gress; Society of Art; Biological Society; Engineers’ Soci- ety; Physical and Chemical Society; English Club; Alpha Literary Society. Encina Hall. 7 5 Qo Qo & 80 £ 3 i Q g - s 5 o « "nn wn 3 QO SOCIABILITY. HE first social event was a reception, on the afternoon of the opening day, to the Faculty and Trustees, by Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, at their residence. Mrs. Jordan and the President receive the members of the Faculty, at Escon- dite Cottage, on the third Friday evening of each month. The ladies of the Faculty are divided into two lists; those in the first list re- ceive the students on the first, and those in the second list on the third Friday afternoon and evening of each month. These receptions were at first very well attended ; but as the students became acquainted with each other, they got into the way of spending their Friday evenings at Roble Hall instead of in The Row,—* which,” said the Faculty ladies, “is natural.” Numbers of general receptions have been held by the students and by the Faculty. MRS. JORDAN. On New Year's eve, the Encina people gave a reception to the Roble ladies and the Faculty. On Washington’s Birthday, the Roble people gave a Martha Washington reception to the Faculty and invited students. While Mrs. Comstock was domiciled at Encina, she had after-dinner coffee every night for the members of the Faculty in the building, and on one night a week she received the students of Encina Hall. In April, the Faculty and graduate students gave ex-President White of Cornell a reception in the Roble parlors. In May, Mrs. Jordan and the President gave the Faculty a reception, to meet Professor Geo. L. Burr of Cornell. On the evening of May 27th, the Faculty, residents of Lauro Hall, gave a reception to the Faculty and invited guests. Party trips to La Honda, Pescadero, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Mt. Hamilton, etc., have been numerous and invariably enjoy- able. One party, returning in the dusk from La Honda, had the pleasure of hearing the cries of a panther in the woods, and had to keep still to avoid attracting him. Students call at Roble at pleasure; but custom has fixed upon Friday and Saturday evenings as the most desirable. ESCONDITE COTTAGE — DR. ji = cottage bears the name of ‘Escondite,’ and the story goes that Coutts, its former owner, was a Frenchman or a Rus- sian who lived in Paris during the time of the Commune. He had been made the custodian of certain funds to be held in trust, and in order that no dispute might arise concerning their disposition, and to show his appreciation of the confidence of the depositors, he concluded to put the ocean between himself and them. The result was the selection of Mayfield as his place of retirement, and the investment of a part of the trust funds in the cottage where the President now lives. He built his house in imitation of one erected by the French king for his mistress in the forest of Ver- sailles, hanging the walls with tapestry, and furnishing it in a style to conform to the original. He built a ruined tower in the hills back of the house, dug artificial lakes, in which he constructed artificial islands, and planted trees like those in the French forest, to make himself feel as much at home as possible. ‘““He had assumed the name of Coutts, which is neither French nor Russian, but very good English. One day it occurred to the JORDAN’S PRESENT HOME. French consul at San Francisco that Mr. Coutts might be a man he was looking for. So he made a trip to Mayfield, where Mr. Coutts succeeded so well in arguing the counsel out of his surmise that he went back to San Francisco and forthwith made several extensive investments in real estate. “Shortly after, this consul was recalled, and another ap- pointed. The second official must have received a ‘tip’ from his predecessor ; for, directly upon his arrival, he likewise sought the society of the plethoric Mr. Coutts. But Mr. Coutts’ stock of arguments seems to have run low about this time, or he had wearied of the attentions of the representatives of the French Government ; for, on the approach of the second caller, he left without waiting to shake the dust from his feet. He did not even tarry to pick up the children’s playthings from the floor of his pretty cottage, or to draw the fires from the kitchen stove. The place which had known the erratic depositary of trust funds knew him no more. Later, Senator Stanford met a representative of Mr. Coutts in London, and purchased the estate.” — The Phenix, January 3, 1892. scondite Cottage. Interior of Quadrangle. One of the end Towers. Underneath the Tower. KINDLY, CURIOUS, AND CUTTING COMMENTS OF THE PERSPICACIOUS PRESS. “YT is announced that Senator Stanford has made a will leaving twenty millions of dollars to the ‘University’ which he has es- tablished in California. We hope that the statement is untrue. If it be true, we hope that Senator Stanford will burn the will that pro- poses a waste of fifteen million dollars. A university, to begin with, cannot be built up with money alone. Its real usefulness depends upon —its very existence is involved in — the quantity and character of the population which surrounds it. Some States need universities ; some need colleges ; some have real use only for high schools. Until a State has passed through the high- school period, until it has had many years of the college period, it has no use for a university, and a university can be of no value to it. %® * But to attempt to create a great university Aladdin-like out of nothing but money is as useless as would be the building of a great summer hotel in Central Africa, or an insti- tution for the relief of destitute ship-captains in the mountains of Switzerland.” —New York Commercial Advertiser, July, 1891. ‘“ There is something very fetching about David Starr Jordan’s ideas of a university as he unfolds them in 7ke Forum. For example, he says: In the true sense, a university is not an assemblage of colleges, nor a co- ordination of faculties, nor is its existence or its effectiveness dependent on any Its essential quality is individualism. A university is an details of organization. L Its sole purpose is to bring teachers and assemblage of teachers and students. students together, to give the power of association, and thereby to produce results impossible in isolation. There can be but two units in the ideal school— the teacher and the student; and the value of these may be sometimes inter- changeable. All structures and all restrictions which tend to subordinate teacher or student to the needs of the imaginary departments to which he belongs are useless, and may be vicious. Most of the details of organization in American colleges and universities are simply survivals of old traditions. The essential function of the university, as President Coulter has recently said, is ‘the eman- cipation of thought.” “In another place, President Jordan hits out straight from the shoulder at nursery methods in universities. This is the result : The new university can cut itself loose from the time-worn English college curriculum and its much-patched American equivalent, with its system of favored studiesand false incentives. It can giveto each line of work the time and freedom it needs, thus leaving all questions of the relative value of studies to be settled by each student for himself, * * The new school can treat its students as men, and not as children. * * * The nursery should cease where the university begins, and the university student should not do his work in the child’s fear of ‘the rod behind the mirror.’ The new school can rest its impulse for work on the desire for knowledge, the eternal ‘ hunger and thirst which only the student knows,’’ the only basis on which scholarship can rest. Marks, honors, prizes, degrees even, are incentives which belong to nursery days They date from the time when the youth of the aristocracy must be coaxed or driven to a resemblance of culture. As I have elsewhere urged, all these things are forms, and forms only, and the substance of our higher education is fast outgrowing them. College marks, college honors, college courses, college degrees, the college itself, as distinguished from the university, on the one hand, and the public school, on the other,—all these belong, with the college cap and gown, and the wreath of laurel berries, to the babyhood of culture. They are part of our inheritance from the past, from the time when scholarship was not manhood, when the iife of the student had no relation to the life of the world. “If Mr. Jordan carries out his ideas as vigorously as he talks them, he will earn $10,000 a year.” — Oakland Enquirer, August 28, 1891. “The Faculty of the Leland Stanford Jr. University consists of over one hundred members, and they are all men. That looks as though Dr. Jordan doubts that women are mentally the equals of men, and is a pretty hard blow at the public schools of Califor- nia, in which male teachers are surprisingly scarce.” — The Herald, Livermore, Cal. “Dr. Jordan has a big brain, a large and powerful frame, and weighs over two hundred pounds. Almost every summer he spends in tramping over Europe, with a number of his students, or in fishing explorations in this country. He has been heard to remark that ‘ roughing it’ was one of the things that made life worth living. He says of himself: ‘Six feet and one-half inch high, I weigh 215 pounds; but I can swim, play base-ball, and talk Norwegian.’ ”’ “This is a practical age, and we ask what is the value of edu- cation. Its value is to teach the student that life is worth living ; to teach the student the love of nature, the love of God.” —Dr. Jordan, as quoted by San Jose Mercury, July 9, 1891. “It is now well known that the Stanford University, which is just on the eve of its opening, is proving itself to be one of the - great shams of the age. From the great flourish of trumpets which greeted the announcement of its founding, the people were led to believe it was to be a university with a large, first-class faculty. Subsequent events prove otherwise. The vast endow- ment is to be used niggardly, and but a mere corporal’s guard of professors are to be hired, and these for appearances’ sake only.” —Golden Gate Catholic, July 11, 1891. “The Stanford University will be the Mecca towards which the footsteps of the savants of modern civilization will tread, the altar upon which will burn with steadiest flame the insatiable fire of the human intellect. Leland Stanford has raised to the mem- ory of his son a monument, the material of which is purer than virgin marble, and whose influence will be as lasting as the granite mountains which guard his princely gift. The foundation is laid in the hearts of a grateful people, and upon the ever-rising walls future generations will gaze, and revere the donor’s name. The destinies of California and our country are in a measure cast with the Stanford University ; for, as the years go by, thousands upon thousands of our young men and women, the flower of our youth, will pass through its stately portals, to drink at the foun- tains and bow at the shrine of the pillars of human knowledge, whose capitals have been so beautifully wrought with the sharp chisels of patience, application, investigation and perseverance. In passing hence, every individual will become a stronger link, binding humanity to that future enlightenment the possibilities of which no man dare predict. “In a few years, when our locks are whitened and our forms are bent with the fret of years, these young men will be the master husbandmen, law-makers, scientists, tradesmen and artisans, and ‘doyg Surjiom-poop “3PEOIY AY} JO MIIA 13yjouy *313ueipend) JO JOLISIUI AY) PUNOI 3PeIIY these young women the typical mothers of the land. Our eyes will be dimmed and the embers of our thoughts will shed uncer- tain light ; but the fresh coals taken from the altar of the Stanford University will grow brighter with each succeeding generation, the fountains will sparkle with pure water, and the chisels will cut deeper and more beautiful tracery.” — California Fruit Grower. “The institution to which President Jordan has been called is a princely gift from Senator Stanford to the State of California, in memory of his only son, in whose honor it is named, and to which the Senator has given $20,000,000. ph ® ® The corner- stone was laid May 14, 1887, and the various structures will be completed in time for the opening in October next. Leland Stanford, Jr., was the only son of the Senator and wife, and was born eighteen years after their marriage, dying at the age of six- teen. His death ended the line. He was taken ill while with his parents abroad, being stricken with fever at Constantinople, which developed into typhoid at Rome. His parents hastily removed him to Florence; but the change came too late to save his life. * * #® No other institution in this country has ever started with such a princely endowment, and no other is now try- ing to do the work mapped out for this university. Senator Stanford deserves the thanks of all Americans for his great munificence. He is a benefactor to his race. He has exhibited wisdom above most men in giving his wealth while living and directing its expenditure.” —Press Notice. ““The more our people see and hear of President Jordan, the more they are impressed with two facts : First, the peculiar and almost phenomenal fitness of this man for the head of the great University ; and, second, the peculiar and almost phenomenal insight displayed by Senator Stanford in his selection.” —San Josean, February 13, 1892. “The Napa County Alliance has gone to a passionate length in its condemnation of President Jordan of the Stanford Univer- sity, and has displayed a lack of temperance in judgment not at all creditable. But, on the other hand, there was good ground for indignation. Mr. Jordan has shown himself a very shallow observer and critic.. * *¥ *® If Mr. Stanford is to make a success of his University, he will have to put at its head a man of sounder judgment and broader sympathies.” —Qakland Tribune, February ro, 1892. There is any quantity more — but this is enough. Since the University was projected, more than seven large folio volumes have been filled with clippings, more less like the above. “The voice of the Press is the voice of the people.” Vox populi, vox Dei. Long live the Press! BIRTHS. Born, November 10, 1891, to Mr. and Mrs. President JorDAN, a daughter. Born, April 15, 1892, to Mr. and Mrs. O. L. ELLIOTT, a daughter. Born, April 22, 1892, to Prof. and Mrs. Topp, a daughter. Born, April 28, 1892, to Prof. and Mrs. PEASE, a son. Born, May 27, 1892, to Prof. and Mrs. SANFORD, a daughter. MARRIAGES. On April 19, 1892, Mr. WILLIS GRANT JOHNSON, late of Cornell University, to Miss FANNY HELENA PHILLIPS, late of Ithaca, N.Y. DEATHS. Owing to the glorious climate, nobody has died. *A3193UOWY Je UBIO JPOP JO ISEOD 'ssa1dAy Lasdyuoyy cz *A10)8AI9SqO HOIT UNM ‘UOHIWEH IW JO JWWNG ‘I The Town Site of Palo Alto is at the Railroad Station and at the main entrance to the University I eS - > wm a EE . 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