Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-27
CALIFORNIA; UNIVERSITIES.

Boston Transcript-The amended
report of the condition in which Lee
land Stanford. Jr,, university is left
by the earthquake is most comfort
ing. But if the first statement that
its buildings had all been reduced to
heaps of dust had proved true the
university would not have been, as
the headlines had it, wiped out" A
university does not exist in its ma
terial part. The plant is, in fact,
the least part Of 1t. Perhaps il
would have been worth the sacrifice
of the beautiful Boston-planned ar
chitecture of Leland Stanford, Jr.,
university, representing Hispano-
Mexican history and the semitropi-
cal local color OF California as wildly
as the architecture of Harvard and
Yale represent the associations of old
New England with Cambridge and
Oxford universities, II the impressive
object lesson had been conveyed to
our splendid materialism." that the
buildings, though they may represent
many millions and that in irreproach-
able good taste, too, do not make and
can never make the university. The
Leland Stanford, Jr, university is
what IL is not by grace OF Leland
Stanford's money, bat by virtue OF
certain great and fearless minds,
with their unwavering devotion to
the highest with their deep and com
prehensive grasp Of the relations of
the present to the past, the local to
The whole world Of mankind; with
their sense OF duty to set the feet OF
the oncoming generations of Ameri-
cans in paths laid out In accord with
the true laws of growth as far as
science can settle what the true
course may be and IN obedience TO
the highest and broadcast moral and
social purpose and responsibility.
This direction has been maintained at
Leland Stanford, Jr.
Its endowment OF 80 millions, its
site, are superb indeed, in all senses
OF the word Brt the animating
genius is that Of David Starr Jor-
dan man with something very much
like the PHYSICAL, mental and spirit
ual endowment OF Phillips Brooks.
There would be no question raised
to the statement that the building up
and development OF this university
Is due mainly TO the work and the
equation Of President Jor.
dan, who has been It's only president
We had last winter. in one OF the
Lowell institute lecture courses, an
type Of the Pacific coast
college professor in Or. Henry Monse
Stevens Of the university OF Cali
forlia, with his fascinating review in
IL lectures on the growth OF humani-
tarianism in the world since Francis
Of Assist and its Developments in
charities and corrections. IL Is still
fresh In mind--the powerful impress
sion produced here in Boston by this
new authority for us-the scholarship
md above all the social purpose re-
gealed in q remarkable series OF pa
Ders demonstrating from history, I'm a
spirit of broad and dauntlegs optinr
SIN, that the state is constantly TAX
ng upon Itself to see that the world
Toes really grow better through feel
ng closer responsibility for it's de
'ectives, and that patriotism must be
expanded beyond narrow national
SIN in the scientific Interpretation Of
history. With suoh enlightenment
lowing forth daily upon the 1000 or
5000 students Of the great univer-
'ity patronized by Mrs. Phoebe A..
Hearst, and similar influences shed
rom the observation-disclosures Of Presi-
lent Jordan upon about half as many
n that endowed by Mrs. Stanford,
arge proportion OF all Of whom are
Young women, IL jg to be gathered
mat the Coast" is taking on an in
ellectual and social culture deeper
han anything that can BE topped
INTO ruin by mere destruction Of