Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-01
STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
Mrs. Leland Stanford's Plans in Connee
 tion with That Institution.

Mrs. Leland StanfOrd'S Plans in Connec-
 tion with That Institution.
 Mrs. Leland Stanford, in ali interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, 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 Institute, where girls who have 8 taste for designing may se- cure 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 ele- mentary 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 given, but the whole spirit of the institution will be against merely orna- mental education. To quote Mrs. Stan ford's words on this point:
 1T think it absolutely cruel to give a young man or woman who must depend upon their own exertions for livei- hood a classical education pure and sim pie. There is scarcely 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 wit ness ne helplessness of wrongly edu- catel Eoung people"
 Whom asked whether any plans had been devised for the association of the sexes she said: ''Yes, indeed. Cot tages will be built which will accommo- date about twenty students each and these will be in charge of a teacher, where the personal habits, manners 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 individual is brought under refined discipline. The cottages in tended for boys wiA be about mile dis tant from those occupied by the girls, but the evenings may be passed together in music or soclal games in the presence of and with the consent of the teachers
 ''Is it true you Intend to give paint ings and curios in your house to the university museum?"
 "Quite true, and I am determined there shall be copies of all the old masters added to the collection of paintings. Down in my ballroom is an exac5 reproduction of The Lords Sup per- painted by Raphael, which was found during the wars of Napoleon, and which hangs in the cathedral near Milan. King Humbert allowed me to have it copied. Through MT. Pendle- ton, our recent Minister to Germany, the young Kaiser has given permission to secure a copy of the famous 'Sistine Madonna in Dresden, reserving only the right to name the artlst. 1 have just given an order to have the work begun.
 It is expected that the university will be open next fall. The colleges will be provided with ample lecture-rooms, and the trustees will be required to of- fer high salary for instructors. The higher courses will be free to post graduates of all colleges and universi- ties, and to such other deserving per sons as the trustees may elect to admit.