Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-26
PALo ALTO UNIVERSITY.
Sensible Ideas on Education by Mrs.
Leland Stanford.


From the New York Star
Mrs. Leland Stanford gives many facts,
hitherto imprinted, in regard to plans for
the new university at Palo Alto. She says
the same attention will be given to girls as
to boys, and it is her purpose to have an
art training school, like the Cooper Insti-
tute, where girls who have an art for de-
signing may secure instruction that will
enable them to earn good living. If they
then wish TO study higher art, they will
have means to support themselves. The
chief aim will be to ground the students in
elementary studies, and then to give them
some practical training by which they may
easily support themselves. If then they
desire higher training it will be freely
gwen, but the whole spirit of the institu-
ton will be against merely ornamental
education. To quote Mrs. Stanford's words
on this point
Il think it absolutely cruel to give a
young man or woman, who must depend
upon his or her own exertions for liveli-
hood, classical education, pure and
| simple. There is scarcely a week that
Mr.. Stanford is not asked to give employ
ment to graduates of Yale and Harvard
He has six of them as car conductors on
the Market street line now. OF course, it
is no disgrace to them, and they will not
remain long, but it is pitiful to witness the
helplessness of wrongly educated young
people"
When asked whether any plans had been
devised for the association of the sexes, she
said: Eyes, indeed. Cottages will be built
which will accomm odate about twenty stu
dents each, and these will be in charge of a
teacher, where the personal habits, man.
ners and amusements Of the students may
be under supervision. Every care will be
taken TO make these cottages homes in the
best sense of the word, a place where no
creed is taught, but where the day begins
and ends with prayer, and where each in
dividual is brought under refined disci-
pine. The cottages intended for boys will
be about mile distant from those occu-
pied by the girls, but the evenings may
be passed together in music or social games
in the presence of and with the consent of
the teachers"
us it true you intend to give paintings
and curios in your house to the university
museum"
"Quite true, and am determined there
shall be copies of all the old masters added
! to the collection of paintings. Down in my
| ballroom is an exact reproduction of The
| Lords Supper painted by Raphael, which
| was found during the wars of Napoleon,
and which hangs in the cathedral near Mi
Ian. King Humbert allowed me 10 have it
copied. Through Mr.. Pendleton, our re-
cent Minister to Germany. the young Kali
ser has given permission to secure a copy
of the famous 'Sistine Madonna, in Ores
den, reserving only the right to name the
artist. have just given an order to have
the work begun"
1t is expected that the university will be
opened next fall. The colleges will be pro-
vided with ample lecture rooms, and the
Trustees will be required to offer high sal
airy for instructors. The higher courses
will be free to post-graduates of all colleges
and universities and to such other deserv-
ing persons as the Trustees may elect to ad-
| nit