The Days of a Man 1893 



professors who might be needing it the most. At 

 once I set out, intending to assign $50 apiece to 

 ten persons; but as no one could give change, I 

 was obliged to distribute by forties and sixties! 



It chanced, however, that further alleviation was 

 now at hand. Shortly after Mr. Stanford's death, 

 I had procured from the Stock Farm a series of or- 

 dinary account blanks on which I noted the amount 

 due each professor, as an "employee," for "services" 

 rendered from June i, the date of the last payment 

 by our "employer," to June 21, when the estate 

 passed into the hands of the Court. Returning 

 from my rounds with the bag of gold, I was surprised 

 to receive a check for $13,000 which had been sent 

 down by order of the Judge to cover our June claims. 

 Mrs. Stanford then said diffidently that she would 

 be greatly obliged if we would return the gold already 

 distributed, as she could make good use of it. 

 A monthly Not long afterward the stress was still further 

 relieved through a provisional arrangement allowed 

 by Judge Coffey as a matter of substantial justice 

 if not of legal precedent. This took the form of a 

 monthly allowance (to Mrs. Stanford) of $12,500 

 for "service" over and above the necessities of her 

 personal maintenance. But the salary roll alone 

 already amounted to $15,000 a month, and addi- 

 tional teachers had been engaged for the coming 

 year. Plainly an extra source of income had to be 

 found. Tuition up to that time had been entirely 

 free; we were later obliged, though with much re- 

 luctance, to charge a yearly registration fee of twenty 

 dollars - - thirty to those of irregular standing. 



The situation was now again modified by volun- 

 tary action on the part of the faculty and president, 



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