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deferred. 1 The experience of other universities in the 

 United States is most instructive in this respect. Nearly 

 every one of them has suffered greatly from the want 

 of some such general plan. One has but to visit almost 

 any one of them to see buildings of different materials and 

 styles classical, Renaissance, Gothic, and nondescript 

 thrown together in a way at times fairly ludicrous. 

 Thomas Jefferson, in founding the University of Virginia, 

 was wiser ; and his beautiful plan was carried out so fully, 

 under his own eyes, that it has never been seriously de 

 parted from. At Stanford University, thanks to the wis 

 dom of its founders, a most beautiful plan was adopted, 

 to which the buildings have been so conformed that no 

 thing could be more satisfactory; and recently another 

 noble Californian Mrs. Hearst has devoted a queenly 

 gift to securing a plan worthy of the University of Cali 

 fornia. At the opening of Cornell, as I have already 

 said, a general plan was determined upon, with an upper 

 quadrangle of stone, plain but dignified, to be at some 

 future time architecturally enriched, and with a freer 

 treatment of buildings on other parts of the grounds ; but 

 there is always danger, and I trust that I may be allowed 

 to remind my associates and successors in the board of 

 trustees, of the necessity, in the future development of the 

 university, for a satisfactory plan, suitable to the site, to 

 be steadily kept in mind. 



1 It has now 1904 been very intelligently developed. 



