Jane Lathrop Stanford, a Eulogy1909 - 173 pages |
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... beloved Palo Alto , but that she wished to give to the Board of Trustees absolute freedom in taking up their great responsibilities . She wished them to handle the accumu- lated funds on their own initiative , without suggestion from ...
... beloved Palo Alto , but that she wished to give to the Board of Trustees absolute freedom in taking up their great responsibilities . She wished them to handle the accumu- lated funds on their own initiative , without suggestion from ...
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... beloved Palo Alto . But it was a joy to her to have been spared so long ; to have lived to see the work of her husband's life and hers firmly and fully established . Hers has been a life of the most perfect devotion both to her own and ...
... beloved Palo Alto . But it was a joy to her to have been spared so long ; to have lived to see the work of her husband's life and hers firmly and fully established . Hers has been a life of the most perfect devotion both to her own and ...
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Page 170 - I shall now turn back and resume my story from another side. NOTE According to the Albanian proverb, "Open a cask of sugar and the flies will come all the way from Bagdad.
Page 173 - ... of self-devotion and of selfrestraint," the university in which earnest men and women find the best possible preparation for work in life, the university which sends out men who will make the future of the republic worthy of the glories of its past, the university of the plans and hopes of Leland Stanford, the university of the faith and work and prayer of Jane I-athrop Stanford.
Page 166 - The story of the passing of the great suit is known to all the old students of the university. It was brought to trial in San Francisco in the United States District Court, and the university side of the question had the strong support of the great jurist, John Garber. The decision of Judge Ross was against the claim of the government. It was appealed and came before Judges Morrow, Gilbert and Hawley, who again found no merit in the government contention. It was appealed to the Supreme Court of the...
Page 157 - ... are the terms in which President David Starr Jordan of Stanford refers to " the lone. sad figure of the mother of the university, strong in her trust in God and in her loyalty to her husband's purposes, happy only in the belief that in carrying out her husband's plans for training the youth of California...
Page 160 - Fifteen years later on Founder's Day 1909. Dr. Jordan took occasion to tell the story of Mrs. Stanford's life. Of this crisis he said: After Governor Stanford's death, Mrs. Stanford kept to her rooms for a week or two. She had much to plan and much to consider. From every point of worldy wisdom, it was best to close the University until the estate was settled and in her hands, its debts paid and the panic over . . . After these two weeks Mrs. Stanford called me to her house to say that the die was...
Page 168 - University completed, the cherished plans of her husband, to which she had devoted anxious years, fully carried out. Death came to her in a foreign land, but in a message written before her departure to be read at the laying of the corner-stone of the great library, she made known the final destiny of the jewels. She directed that they should be sold and their value made a permanent endowment of the library of the University. And so the jewels have at last come to be the enduring possession of all...
Page 173 - And with all the activities of athletics, of scholarly research, of the applications of science to engineering, the spirit of 'self-devotion and of selfrestraint,' by which lives have been 'made beautiful and sweet' through all the centuries, should rise above all else, dominating the lower aspirations and activities as the great church towers above the red tiles of the lower buildings. But for all this, the Church should exist for men — for the actual men who enter its actual doors — not men...
Page 162 - United States was secured by a second mortgage on the Central Pacific. It was supposed that it would be sold to satisfy the first mortgage, and that it would realize no more than this sum, leaving, as a railway manager cynically expressed it, nothing but " two streaks of rust and the right of way." The government proposed, by a sort of injunction, to hold up the Stanford property, which would then be seized, in case the Southern Pacific Railway system should at some future time be found in debt....
Page 173 - Great libraries and great collections the University should have, but libraries and collections should be chosen for their fitness in the training of men. And with all the activities of athletics, of scholarly research, of the applications of science to engineering, the spirit "of self-devotion and of self-restraint," by which lives have been "made beautiful and sweet...
Page 159 - ... institution of the higher learning in California. These had originated in the shadow of a great sorrow. On March 13, 1884, his only child, young Leland Stanford Junior, a lad of sixteen, died in Florence of what was then called "Roman fever." After a long and dreary night, the stricken father awoke with these words on his lips: "The children of California shall be my children.