Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

| out which will be source of pride to the
State, and means of incalculable good to
its youth. That it will do honor to the
man who POUNDS it, is of course, and it will
likewise testify to the sore hurt of a
parents heart, and the relief sought from
sad memories in the active work of such a
great undertaking as is now proposed
Assuming the dispatches to correctly rep
resent the plans of Governor Stanford,
there is then one thing of which all Cal
ifornians who know him will feel perfect
assurance, that they will be carried out in
the fullness and completeness that alone
will satisfy such man, and that the insti-
tuition viii be, like all his life work
rounded out, completed in every detail
finished and chiseled, and left without flaw
or blemish.
Since the above was in type there has
come by telegraph what purports to have
been an interview between Governor Stan
ford and member of the New York Til
buae staff, in which the former states his
intention to carry out the idea, some time
ago commenced and in part effected, of es-
tablishing at PalO Alto an arboretum upon
500 acres of land set apart for the purpose
As we have already intimated, the Gov
ernor holds to the original idea that the
special need of the day is practical educa-
ton of youth such institutional training
as will equip young men with practical
knowledge of useful callings, that they
may enter upon the active stage of life
with that best of capital-solid, practical
information and trained hands. He be-
lieves there are places enough for the
young men of the day, but that compare
lively few are prepared TO be fitted into the
places. With the broad ideas he is known
to entertain relative to the capacities of
the sex for useful yocations outside of
housewifery, we are not surprised to
learn that the Governor proposes that
the new school shall open its doors
also to girls, and that the course
Of study and training shall be such
that on emergence from the institute
the students of either sex shall be indie
pendent of the bread-and-b butter ques-
ton, so far as trained qualifications for
honorable vocations are concerned. That
the scheme shall be complete in every de-
tail, as inviting to youth as possible, there
will be under grades in the form of pre-
paratory schools. As We anticipated, the
Governor does not propose to make the
institution a charity school. He realizes
the value of self-help and the inestimable
advantage the youth possesses who is him
self called upon for effort The entrance
gained to such a school by the lad who
must make some sacrifices, and in some
way contribute to his own needs, is of really
greater value than if the doors were thrown
wide open and the bounty of the founder
poured out indiscriminately We Judge
therefore that industry and practical labor
will be essential elements of the system. |
But, of course, the details can now be but |.
'peculated upon. The Governor is not
himself settled upon them, but sufficient
S now made public to give a general idea
If the plan of action contemplated. 1t
promises very much for the young men
md women of California, and the charac-
er and business capacity of Governor Stan
ord is ample warrant for the forecast that
he promise will be fulfilled to the letter