Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-06
MEN Of STANFORD
WILL BUILD CLUB
Forty Thousand Dollars of Re-
quired Fund Is Already
Subscribed
WORK TO BEGIN ON PLANS
Structure Will Resemble Other
Houses at University in
Its Architecture

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5.-Stanford
university is to have Il $4,000 club
house for the exclusive use of the male
students, members Of the faculty and
alumni and any visitors which the
members shall choose to entertain on
the campus of the university. This
was decided last year and a subscrip-
tion was started for the purpose. Now
the success of the subscription is as
sured over $4,000 has been promised
and some $4,000 of the amount is
available.
Operations on this project will be
started within a few months. r. w.
Barrett, a graduate of the '04 class,
who is acting as chairman of the sub
scriptiOn committee, and II. G. Fergu-
son, an undergraduate, have been col
lecting pledges as rapidly as they be-
came due.
PLANS TO RAISE FUNDS
Barrett today said that while he had
not decided in his own mind the ad-
Visibility of starting construction at
once, he believes that it might be a
good idea to do so and will bring it up
before the committee of prominent
graduates and faculty men for vote.
He is under the impression that it may
be advisable to put in the foundation
and proceed with the building as rap
idly as the funds will admit. 1t is the
opinion of those with whom he has
consulted that his plan would serve
to bring in the outstanding money and
also help to secure new subscriptions
from alumni who have held back thus
far to see if the movement was Sc
riOus.
Designs for the club house have not
been decided on, but J. NJ. Wadsworth,
I,1,. Of a
class, who designed the track training
house recently constructed at the uni
versity, has been detailed to draw up
some preliminary ideas and will work
on a general design for the structure.
The members of the committee who
have charge of the Stanford Union, as
the club is to be known, have two
sites in view on the campus. One is
close to the present pOstoffice and the
other adjoins the mems gymnasium.
This matter will be settled in the next
few weeks and a design chosen and
everything rushed to give the students
some idea of the new club.
The Stanford Union, as proposed, will
be very similar to the big clubs con-
Quoted by eastern universities, 1t will
be. modelled after the Harvard Union,
the clubs at Illinois, Chicago and
Pennsylvania universities.
COMFORTS IN CLUBHOUSE
The ideas to be incorporated in the
building will include large loungine
rooms, assembly rooms, dance hail.
bowling, billiard and pool rooms, read
ing rooms, barber and cigar shops,
large restaurant and rooms for the ac-
commodatiOn of members and guests.
Trophy rooms and similar apartments
will be set aside to make the club
house the grand meeting place of all
the students Recently at the uni
versity several hundred memberships
for life We're signed up by undergrad
yates at $50 each and Secretary R. w.
Barrett is receiving new names daily
for his list of life members. This life
membership list will close within a
few months.
The building which it is planned to
construct will be of stone and undoubt-
edly will resemble in general type of
architecture the other buildings of the
university.