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felt free to speak in the Stanford Chapel. This 

 fact, however, did not debar its clergy from sym- 

 pathy with our work. Archbishop Patrick Reardon 

 was a warm friend of the Stanfords, and my own 

 numerous personal relations with him were of the 

 pleasantest kind. A man of noble presence, wise 

 and patient, he exerted a strong influence in morals 

 and religion. Among many other activities he was 

 the founder of St. Patrick's Seminary, at Menlo 

 Park, for the training of priests. 



I With the local legal group, as such, our academic 

 1 ties were naturally not so close as with the clergy. 

 1 At one time, however, certain judges of the higher 

 I courts held our fate in their hands, and to them I 

 shall subsequently refer. Another lawyer whose oiney 

 acquaintance I made soon after my arrival in Cali- 

 fornia is Warren Olney, a veteran of the Civil War, 

 and now since many years an honored member of 

 i the San Francisco Bar. 



As for the physicians, they took from the first a 



j generous interest in the development of Stanford, 



especially in its scientific departments and in the 



Medical School which came as a natural outgrowth. 



One of the most highly esteemed was Levi Cooper 



I Lane, an extremely skillful and unselfish surgeon, 



^the founder of Cooper Medical College named for 



' his uncle. Dr. Elias B. Cooper. Before his death, The 



Dr. Lane arranged to have the property of that ^°^^" 



excellent institution, worth upward of a million, 



turned over to Stanford as the nucleus of a new and 



stronger organization. Distinguished members of the 



old Cooper group, and later of the Stanford faculty, 



though they soon entered the emeritus list, were 



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