The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
WING AND LATHROP
HAVE INDIVIDUAL
OPINIONS
Engineers Hint of Lack of
Cement in the Bricks at
stanford Jars Treasurer
REPORTED RUPTURE
IS DENIED, HOWEVER

Go tell your troubles to the PRO-
fessor"
The college axiom is reversed Even
the policeman hasn't look in. There
are stories of unreinforced concrete.
of keystones that do not key: of cir
cles that will not square. The uni
versity is agog with them. and, like
Banquo's ghost, they will not down.
Rah, rah, rah--this time the Stan
ford. California has had her inning
of the gossipy sort. Stanford had her
round of discomfort when the temblor
shook down few bricks, and every
one who had experience with that
mine and a half" knows that the soul
of safety was with the bricks without
straws-the bricks that could hold
like those of the Palace Hotel.
The story is going the rounds of
the campus in effect that since Pro-
fessor C. B. Wing intimated that there
was not all the cement that there
really should have been in the bricks
of the Stanford University when the
shake came. there has not been as
cordial a feeling between the savant
and Charles G. Lathrop, the late Mrs.
sStanforIs brother, as before.
Wing has some set ideas on the sort
of architecture that should be en-
ployed to grace the Stanford buildings
and also an opinion that good material
ought to be used in construction He
does not say that he is not in favor
with Lathrop, but it is generally be-
lieved among the stuoents that there
has existed a somewhat bitter feeling
between the eminent engineer and
mathematician and the treasurer of
the university. The report is that it
was Wing who first, unthinkingly,
made the remark that had the Stanford
buildings been constructed as they
should have been the little shake
would not have damaged them any
more than it did the unburned district
of San Francisco.
Recently there has been some dis
cussion over the plans for the bleach
ers of the football grounds. and Wing
has had certain ideas that are said
to have been disapproved by Lathrop.
The treasurer positively denies this,
but the rumor is extant nevertheless.
The trustees of the college disclaim
any knowledge of the difference of
opinion, and Lathrop says that he has
no knowledge of such a report having
been circulated. Wing Is silent. but
gives the impression that he and the
treasurer are on the best of terms
and that they are of one mind regard
ing the gridiron.
An attache of the university who
has to do with construction of some
OF the DullQluSS dllQ tAC
building of the new ones said:
Professor Wing has had much to
do with the reconstruction of the uni
versity; / think his plans are usually
accepted without question. He has
had some ideas that may have not
fitted with those of either the faculty
or the general management, but l do
not think there has Nbeen any friction.
There has been no official information
of a disagreement between Wing and
Lathrop.''
Wing has his own ideas of how
things ought to be, and he goes ahead
doing what he thinks is right with the
courage of conviction. The students
have it that he determined to show
that an engineer of standing and at
the head of a great institution knows
more than a man who has been reared
with his nose close to a bill-file and a
cashiers day book.
When the next earthquake comes. in
2097. according to Omuri the world
will have known the real, inside story
of Greater Stanford and will be better
able to tell the relative merits of sci
ence as applied to building construc-
tion and plain everyday business
methods as injected into the same.