The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-24
PLEASED WITH
HAWAIPS CHARM
sTANFORD's MUNIFICENT DONOR
DELIGHTED WITH HO-
NOLULU.
AMERICAN VERSUS ENGLISH
UNIVERSITIES.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford Takes a Short
Rest From Directing the Completion
OF the Stanford University.

Rest From Directing the Completion
OF the Stanford University.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford at present
guest at the Moana enjoying a COM
ldete rest before taking up the work
Of extending and completing the vast
project of the great University,
erected as a memorial to Leland Stan
ford Junior, is charmed with the quiet
beauties and tranquility of Hawaii and
The opportunities the islands present
for complete retirement amid the most
charming Of surroundings
1t is only a short time since ] re-
turned from a fifteen months trip to
/ Europe" said Mrs Stanford this
morning. Then, after a short month
at home I was forced to go to New
/ York on business. Back home again,
| the carrying out of the plans and the
rearing of the buildings seemed to go
1 ali too slowly 1 suppose 1 have been
/ too eager to carry on the full work to
/ completion and when ! saw that it
/ would take all summer before the work
outlined for the present took tangible
shape / decided to go away for a
| cEange somewhere where 1 could get
/ away from the disappointment of all
| the petty delays that interfere with
]
! ject
/ Il wanted a sea voyage / enjoy the
| ocean so thoroughly. 1t is the one
! place where ! can get perfect rest and
! enjoyment when the conditions are at
| an favorable. At first 1 thought of go
liEg to the coronation, / was present at
| the Jubilee of Queen Victoria but 1 did
not care to cross the continent to get
! to the sea so I took the ships right at
hand and came down here quietly and
! indeed hurTiedly, only making my mind
/ ur three days before the boat sailed. 1
wonder why CalifOrnans do not come
here more frequently although 1t is /
suppose as you say, most probably the
! lack Of a cable, but you win have that
soon will you not?
/ Il enjoy the coCOanut trees so much
with their tropical suggestion and fit
ness, Every morning l walk down to
/ see them for just the pleasure of look
| ing at them. Long ago in '53, l crossed
ti.a isthmus -t Nicaragua and / re-
member seeing many of them during
that trip. / don't suppose 1 shall ever
see them again but 1 enjoy these to
the full. / have taken great interest
in the leis also with their many varie
ties and only wish there was some way
OF preserving them so that they might
. be carried away My boys, l call all
the Stanford boys my boys, have seen
that I am well supplied with them.
You know that there are thirty-seven
OF them altogether on the islands,
many more than l expected to find.
Twenty-Five of them are right here
located in the city ana have met sew
eral of them already, Mr. Dole Mr..
/ McGreW, Mr.. SOper and others
Commenting on the size of the Eng
lish community here Mrs Stanford
was enthusiastically reminiscent over
! the work being done by the English in
Egypt, not merely in colonization af-
fairs but in the inculcatiOn of Christ
ian principles. The last great monu-
mental work of the big dam at Assou-
am which is to catch the overflow Of
the Nile this year and on which one
hundred and fifty native Workmen
We're employed is a stupeudous piece
Of work besides which the achieve
ments and of Cheops and the Ptole-
mics shrink. The work as described
by Miss Berner, who has been with
Mrs. Stanford as private secretary and
companion de voyage for fifteen years,
is built of red granite and is colossal
i'm its design and conception and
achievement.
"The enormous blocks of stone, red
granite with everywhere flashes from
the silica in its composition, the same
as that quarried for the ancient mono
liths, the whole enormity of the
work, said Mrs Stanford, lis impossi-
BILE to describe. The pyramids dwin-
die by comparison. The influences of
the English ascendancy there in the
last few years, | was there a year ago,
shows a mighty influence for good"
Mrs. Stanford is intensely interested
i'm the bequest Of Cecil Rhodes all
though she thinks that 1t might be bet
ter for the English boys to come to an
r.NH.
versa as in the original plan, taking
this view principally on account of the
iusular aristOCraCy of English colleges
and the difficulty of assimilation by an
outsider as opposed to the more demo-
cratic curriculum and general feeling
Of American colleges.
"The bequest of Mr.. Rhodes shows
the granGer side of his character as
opposed to the many things that have
been said against him. l think the
tendency nowadays of the richer
classes is to do good with their money
and the vdstness Of the scheme of Cecil
Rhodes shows the innate greatness of
the man. l do not think however that
there is the necessary broad minded
ness Of spirit at oxford that will best
carry out the amalgamation desired
by Mr.. RhOdes' 1t seems to me that
the spirit Of do unto others as you
would be done by is lacking in the
English college
stanford is merely kindergarten
as yet just a suggestion of what 1
hope it will be. My boys often come
to me and ask me what my plans are
next but / prefer them TO wake up
some morning and see the finished
buildings and then learn their use,
Many of our buildings are now COM
plete of course but already we are add
Ling adding all the time a new wing
to the museum, we have some wonder
ul treasures from the late South Am
erican excavation and a new building
here another there. The plan is slow
ly developing an outline of what it will
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