Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
WITHDRAWS HER HAND
Mrs. Hearst's Benefactions
Are Suspended.
NO REASON ASSIGNED
DONATIONS TO CALIFORNIA UNI
VERSITY OVER A MILLION.
Astonishment Of Her Friends at the
Sudden Cessation of Her
Bounties.
By VIM. +, CURTIS,

By VIM. +. CURTIS.
Written for The Evening Star and Chicago Record
Herald.
California has two of the most richly en-
dowed educational institutions in the world
Leland Stanford, Jr. University undoubted-
ly has the largest endowment that was ever
bestowed upon any educational or benevo-
lent institution, while the University OF
California. state institution. has been the
recipient of nearly 100000 in gifts. It is
situated in the village Of Berkeley. across
in 1868. has about 5000 students and gradu-
ated sos last June. Its faculties comprise
more than 300 men. some of them eminent
in their professions, with Benjamin Ide
Wheeler as their president. The academic
and scientific departments are at Berkeley
the colleges Of art. law. medicine. phar-
macy and dentistry are, for the sake OF
convenience, located in the city of San
Francisco, In buildings provided by the late
Adoiph Sutro. The endowment of the uni
versity by the state and by Individual
patrons Is capitalized at about 81 100000
which produces yearly income of 5000
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, widow of the late
Senator George Hearst, has been its
most generous benefactor, and in looking
through the reports Of the president and
the deans of the different colleges you can
every page The director of the observa-
tory says: 1.-The thoughtful generosity OF
Mrs. Hearst has enabled me to arrange for
the completion of the shops without the
delay that I feared might occur" And
again he says: Mrs. Hearst has thought
fully provided the funds for equipment pur-
poses. AS a result of her generous gifts
several departments Of the university will
total value of her gifts during the past year
Is $50, 400" Speaking of the medical de-
partment of the university, the president
says: I'm May, 1899, 1 ventured to say
to the faculty that the advancement OF the
department depended upon the placing OF
anatomy, physiology and pathology upon
an academic basis. 1t was absolutely es-
sential to abandon the custom of giving
these scientific chairs to men actively en-
gagged in the practice of medicine. These
departments must be rated as pure sciences,
and in them, as in the departments of
physics. chemistry and biology, the corner
stone is research. Mrs. Hearst generously
offered to equip the new department
and placed no restrictions on the sum that
should be employed"
Numerous and Varied Gifts.
Reading on little further I find that a
new department Of anatomy was recently
established and that "a greater part of the
material equipment was obtained through
the generosity of Mrs. Hearst" The pages
-
recorded are spotted all over with her
name She bought the pathological library
of George Morey Richardson, over thou
sand rare volumes, and large COLLECTION
of works on architecture, and placed them
upon the shelves. She has supported
marine biological laboratory, through which
important scientific and economic results
have been accomplished. She maintained
the department of anthropology at cost
of sos, 046; she sent an exploring expedi-
of n -
other to Peru at cost of $500. She form
ed cabinet of classical antiquities at
cost of SIS 59; she paid $1,000 for anthro-
biological research In California; she pur-
chased four different collections of portraits
of Indian tribes for s14 600; she built a fire
proof museum or storage building at cost
OF S6og4 and paid miscellaneous expenses
for the maintenance of the department OF
anthropology to the amount of S13.211.
President Wheeler says 1.-The support OF
the department of anthropology, as at pres
emit constituted, entails upon Mrs Hearst
an annual expenditure of from $50,OOO TO
200. An abundance of material Illus
trative of anthropology, archaeology and
art is being gathered from numerous
sources by Mrs. Hearst's aid.
In countless ways has Mrs. Hearst
shown her sympathetic and inspiring
friendship to the university. And so little
has her right hand known what the left has
done that a complete enumeration of her
benificences is impossible
1.-The tale of Mrs. Hearsts unending
thought and love for the university Is a
long one to tell. She has provided scholar
ships (twenty-one in NUMBER not only at
the university, but elsewhere. Wherever
she has learned of especial need there her
heart has responded always whether 1t has
been to strengthen departmental library,
to add museum material to make possible
the publication of the results of inyeStiga-
ton to light the library at night. when
otherwise the students must have been de-
prived of the privilege of it's use other than
by day: to make travel important for Schol-
arly purposes possible, to open to the mem
bers of the university the opportunity to
hear lectures from distinguished scholars,
to enlarge an overcrowded laboratory. to
re-eouip gymnasiums, to hang engravings
in Stiles Hall, or to brighten the women
room in East Hall.
Support of Hearst Hail.
TT was this desire to bring more of the
IL aspiration of right surroundings into the
lives of the women students which led to
Mrs, Hearst eauipping clubs, where groups
n. congenial women students might live to-
gether with the refining influences of mu-
tual responsibility and of a college simula-
ton OF home life. 1t was this spirit, too,
in which Hearst Hall was conceived, and So
also the Hearst domestic industries came
into being with its provision for training In
the higher arts of needlework. At the college
settlement in West Berkeley Mrs. Hearst
has shared in endeavor with the students
who carry on there so excellent work.
Through Mrs. Hearsts intelligent appre-
citation of the large opportunities which
open in California for a really great medical
school Ii came to pass that she gave a
superb modern research equipment for the
laboratories of pathology and anatomy at
a cost of over 1900, and provision also
for a portion of the salary of the chair of
pathology To her generosity also the uni
versity ewes the salaries of the offices of
supervising architect. of the medical eXami-
IL and of the asSigfant in hX-.