Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-01-15
STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

MrS. Leland Stanford's Plans In Connec-
tion with That Institution.
Mrs LELAND Stanford, in an interview
in the San Francisco Chronicle, glyos
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 20 boys, and it is her
purpose to have an art training-school,'
like the Cooper Institute, where girls
who have taste for designing may se-
cure instruction that will enable them
to earn agood 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:
II think it absolutely cruel to give a
young man or woman who must depend
upon their own exertions for a liveli-
hood classical education pure and SIM
pie. There Is scarcely q 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
1t Is no disgrace to them and they will
not remain long, but it is pitiful to wit
ness the ,helplessness of wrongly edu-
Gated young people,"
When asked whether any plans had
been devised for the association Of the
sexes she said: eyes, 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 will be about mile dis
tant from those occupied 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"
.'ls it true you intend to give paint
ings and curios in your house to the
university museumP"
"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
exact 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 1t copied. Through MIR. Pendle-
ton, our recent Minister to Germany,
the young Kaiser has given permission
to secure copy of the famous 'Sistine
Madonna in Dresden, reserving only
the right to name the artist. I have
just given an order to have the work
begun"
1t 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.
An American Prtmn Donna