Mausoleum of Leland Stanford University. the following interesting account of the beginning of the work: "Early in the formative period of Stanford University Governor and Mrs. Stanford did me the honor to consult me regarding the proposed institution. My first suggestion was the creation of a University at Washington as the center of the nation, and [ drew up at some length a general plan for it. To this Governor Stanford replied, as nearly as I can remember, that his son's wish was that something should be done for the advantage especially of

the Pacific Coast, and that therefore a plan for a university in any other part of the country was out of the question. The result of this was that, in sundry conferences afterward, all our discussions had reference to an institution in California.”

Dr. White also later played an important role in aiding Senator Stanford to secure the distinguished David Starr Jordan as president of the University. The Senator had offered the presidency to Dr. White, then the executive officer of Cornell, New York. President White

It was with his own hand that he drew the law passed by the California legislature in 1885 which made general provision for such gifts as he proposed to make. The "Grant of Endowment" was drawn too by him with clear-headed care. The selection of a board of trustees was another difficult task, but performed with unerring skill. From the venerable seacaptain Charles Goodall to Judge Sawyer they were men worthy of the trust.

Governor Stanford's educational ideas and Dr. Jordan's plans for carrying them out dove-tailed apparently to perfection. There was to be full democracy of studies. Greek or Latin was to have no advantage in the curriculum over Civil

ter, the first year showed an attendance of five hundred and fifty with a strong group of graduate students. There has been a gradual increase in attendance to

present year when fifteen hundred strenuous-minded men and women from all parts of the globe thronged its Romanesque-Mission corridors.

There are now approximately one hundred and forty-five in the faculty and many of the members rank high in the domain of science and letters. There are strong departments in literature, law, the sciences, art, the languages, and engineering.

No more beautiful location for a school than Palo Alto could have

been found by Governor Stanford. Outdoor science can be pursued every day in the year with no discomfort. Just back of the University, in the Coast Range, scarce a half day's walk, lie the ancient forests which come down to us with the spirit of the pleiocene age breathing from every brake and redwood, to say nothing of the ozone-laden waters of the bay which gently surges at the very foot of the campus.

The entire coloring of the location is Californian, and that which is most Californian in spirit, the famous quadrangle, built in Mission style, survived the earthquake, when more stately

"The Annunciation." One of the windows of the Memorial Church.

buildings crumbled; and remains to body forth for time the soul of early California.

The tragedy of the earthquake of last April centered in the ruin of the Memorial Church-ruin not so great as was at first suspected; for it is in Dr. Jordan's plans to rebuild. But in this ruin is deep tragedy; for in the grace and beauty of the Memorial Church, Mrs. Stanford

blazoned forth all the intensity of love and affection she had for her husband, the late Senator; yet it was all blurred in the splendor of a moment.

The art of the quadrangle culminates in the Memorial Church. This was built by Mrs. Stanford and dedicated in honor of the Governor. No money, no labor was spared to perfect the richness and beauty of its design. The chime of bells, the fresco on the outer front, the organ, the ornamented windows, the statuary, the altar, the profuse richness of the dome, the walls storied and pictured from the drama of Holy Writ-the effect of it all brings one to know that the Leland Stanford Junior University is, taken as a whole, "the finest monument ever dedicated by parents to a child."

It may now be said that the first period of the University has passed. The founders both rest in the simple marble Mausoleum in the Arboretum; hard fought battles of administration have been fairly won; and even the great earthquake has been pregnant with lessons which, when carried out, will better prepare the University to do its work of the coming centuries. And after all, to use President Jordan's words, "it is the soul of men and women and not buildings" that must be sought in the moulding of a school of power. The vision is now of the future.

With reference to the reconstruction of buildings Dr. Jordan says: "Whatever is not earthquake-proof already must be made so the classrooms this fall. The Church will be rebuilt in due time and essentially along the same lines. The Gymnasium and the Library will be in time rebuilt; but on a different plan and in harmony with the Spanish Mission. motif of the Quadrangles. This costs money and money spent in one way cannot be spent in another."

We are assured that, of the University's enormous endowment of thirty millions, the principal is being held intact, and will continue to be so kept; yet the interest and income fund is sufficient to work all out that we are now with great interest looking forward to.

The President's words on the future are striking and satisfying: "Stanford University will not be one of the largest universities, but one of the most intense. It will be a straight-forward, honest, in