Jane Lathrop Stanford, a Eulogy1909 - 173 pages |
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Page 170 - Every dollar I can rightfully call mine is sacredly laid on the altar of my love for the University, and thus it ever shall be.' 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 167 - California and they loved California; and because California loved them, as she loves all her children, this man said, "The children of California shall be my children." To make this true in very fact he built for them a beautiful "Castle in Spain," with cloisters and towers, and "red tiled roofs against the azure sky" — for "skies are bluest in the heart of Spain.
Page 171 - I am only anxious to furnish you the funds to pay the needs required. I could live on bread and water to do this, my part, and would feel that God and my loved ones in the life beyond this smiled on the efforts to ensure the future of my dear husband's work to better humanity.
Page 158 - ... the devotion of Mrs. Stanford to it when success seemed impossible. It furnishes a glimpse of a life dominated by the spirit of love and selfsacrifice, and sets forth before the reader a high ideal of American womanhood. It is the story, as the author states early in his narrative, of "the six dark years from eighteen ninety-three to eighteen ninety-nine, those days in which the future of a university hung by a single thread, but that thread the greatest thing in the world — the love of a good...
Page 167 - The university can be kept alive by these till the skies clear and the money which was destined for the future shall come into the future's hands.
Page 160 - In normal times, there was hardly money enough in California to pay this amount ; but these were not normal times, and there was no money in California to pay anything. After these two weeks, Mrs. Stanford called me to her house to say that the die was cast. She was going ahead with the university. She would let us have whatever money she could get. We must come down to bed rock on expenses, but with the help of the Lord and the memory of her husband, the university would go ahead and fulfil its...
Page 157 - 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 - 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 view of worldly wisdom, it was best to close the university until the estate was settled and in her hands, its debts paid and the panic over. Her own fortune was in the estate itself.
Page 162 - ... suit for fifteen million dollars levied so as to tie up everything in the estate until the debts of the Central Pacific Railroad were paid. It was not claimed that the railroad, the estate, or the University owed anything on which payment was due, and as a matter of fact the Southern Pacific Railroad Company paid in full every dollar it owed to the government as soon as it became due and with full interest. There was never any reason to suppose that it would not do so, nor any reason to suppose...
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 self-restraint," 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...