The San Francisco call., 1896-03-26
legacies and attending to other matters
pertaining to the estate.

legacies and attending to other matters
pertaining to the estate.
Professor Barnes has been interesting
himself in the lectures which are de-
livered at the Academy of Sciences in con-
nection with the work of the university,
and are delivered by different Stanford
professors. He says the lectures are not
the success that had been hoped for them,
to lectures. They liked amusements more.
Continuing, he said that lectures seemed
to be dying out over the country. A few
years ago the bureaus were sending out
throngs of men to lecture on different top
les and they had large audiences, but pub
lie taste had now changed very largely.
The professor said he did not know but it
was good thing.
1.-THE most important news l can give
you now,'' said Professor Barnes, ''is that
several professors from California are GO
ing East this year to deliver series of sci
entific lectures at one of the great institu-
tons. This is important, as it is a new
thing and is advantageous, because it tends
to connect the thought of this coast with
that of the East. The feeling hitherto was
that we were so remote that we must for q
long time stand alone. This has prevented
several educators from coming here and
UCCOulAk luCuLiucu Will ObduIOlUs
1.-THE institution refer to IS the Univer-
sity of Chicago, founded by Mr.. Rockefel-
ler, and runs on much the same lines as
Stanford University. Both were started
about the same time and have been man.
aged by young and progressive men. Pres
ldent Harper Of the Chicago University is
much like President Jordan. The two in
stitutions are sort of path-fnders and trail
breakers in the way in which they are con-
Quoted"
The lectures alluded to are to be deliv-
cred by Professor Barnes and Professor
Ewald Flugel of Stanford University and
Professor Bernard Moses of the University
of California. They will each deliver fifty
lectures.
1t is an important innovation and will
create great interest among all educators.
II am to speak on the sociology OF
children and the history OF education, u
said he, and Professor Fluget will con.
tinue his work in Anglo-Saxon, delivering
as l and Professor Moses will, two lectures
day. Professor Harper, of the institution
is great organizer and man of untirina
energy, being much like DR.. Jordan. We
will go East probably the last of May to
begin delivering the lectures.
Professor Barnes says there are about
1100 students at Stanford. He says the
visit of the University of California ath.
letic team to the East last year did a great
deal of good in an educational way. There
has been an increased number of students
from the East. and interest in California
has been aroused. He says, also, that the
strife for able men as instructors has grown
in recent times, so that now competent
man gets as much as $1,000 9. year, whereas
about the highest salary formerly was in
the neighborhood of $500. During the
past year or SO, however" said Professor
Barnes, several of us at Stanford univer.
sity were offered higher salaries to go else
where, but not one went, except in single
instance, when a. professor went to the
Lick Observatory"