Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-11
THE STANFORD ENDOWMENT.

The San Francisco Chronicle publishes
what purports to be detailed statement
of the endowment by Governor Stanford
of the educational institutions he is to
found as perpetual memorial of his affec-
ton for his deceased son. The account
contains an extended description of the
landed property, which, as the public has
already been informed, Governor Stan
ford proposes to make a part of the sum of
hisendowment. Beyond this, the statement
ofthe lans for the University are so meagera as
to Justify the assumption that the publica-
ton is not authoritative Indeed, no other
conclusion can be reached, since the CEN
trail thought and idea is not at all ex-
planned or developed-to wit, the scheme
of education which the Governor proposes
shall be followed and the great purposes
which he desires the University to serve.
1t is probable that the generalities
are correct, but it appears, after
careful reading, to be very little, if any
more than has already been stated to the
public, to wit, that the Palo Alto, the
Nina and the Gridley farms are to be set
aside fer University endowment
that the University is to be To-
Gated at Palo Alto; that the value of these
estates-about five and half million
OF dollars-is to be supplemented by a
cash endowment, the exact amount of
which has not yet been determined by
Governor Stanford. So far as the plans
for the school are concerned, the Chron-
icLes statement relates chiefly to buildings
for them. While this is interesting,
as must be anything, and every
thing relating to the great work to
which the Governor has determined to de-
vote the major portion of his wealth, it
will be noted that no reference is made,
save in a very general way to the schools
proper. The Chronicle says, and this is
practically all it says outside of the de-
scriptions referred to:
Senator Stanford has authorized the following
statement or definition of his project The
buildings at Palo Alto will be constructed on
the general plan of the parallelogram. The
first will be for the male and female colleges
which are to be distinct institutions vet with
an interdependence. The plan of the buildings
VIII be such rs to admit of expansions and adj
ditions which from time to time the necessities
of the institution may require An important
step in the development OF the plan VIII be the
construction of buildings for parents and guard
ians of pupils and such other persons as the
Trustees may designate, this in the hope that
they may select Palo Alto as q temporary or per-
nar harn and hat hn Il
buildings Will constitute a very considerable
part of the income of the institution. If this
hope should be fulfilled. the establishment of
preparatory schools viii follow SO that facilities
may be afforded for the education of children
of tender age. The project includes an agri-
cultural department and special buildings for
mechanical institutes, museums and art gal
ierieS connected with the colleges To crown
the whole institution there will be other strlct-
uTes which will be devoted to instructions in the
SCIENCE OF government, IN law, in medicine.
painting. music, mechanics, and, in fact, in all
the higher accomplishments, This superior
course will be free, and those leading up to it
viii De available at very moderate tuition fees,
All the post-graduates of this and other univer
sites and colleges will be entitled to its advan-
iages, as well as all other deserving persons.
The founder has provided that the salaries paid
70 the professors and teachers shall be liberal,
in order TO induce the leading instructors Of the
world to seek positions in the faculty.
So far rs these statements are concerned.
they are such as the Governor has
made to those with whom he commune
Gated upon the subject so constant in his
thoughts, and that has absorbed so
much of his time. We are justified in
concluding that the attempt of the
Chronicle is to forestall the full statement
of facts, and that when the distinguished
citizen, who proposes to do for this State
what has been done by no other citizen for
by no man for any other people under the
sun, shall make public the details of his
plans, that they will be clear, full and ex-
plicit; that the public will be made fully
cognizant Of, and to fully appreciate,
the whole educational scheme which he
has in contemplation, the means by which
the ends in view viii be accomplished; the
system OF government under which the
princeiy trusts are to be administered, and
yeSy nearly the exact income that viii be
derivable from the endowment for the sup
port Of the schools. Above all, that there
will be clear statement of the funda-
mental principles upon which the whole
educational system is to be based, in order to
benefit the youth of this and coming gen
erations, and which will give the name OF
Leland Stanford to all time as one who
loved his fellow men,
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MR. sTEAD's PUNISHMENT.