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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. 



With the local legal group, as such, our academic 

 ties were naturally not so close as with the clergy. 

 At one time, however, certain judges of the higher 

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

 shall subsequently refer. Another lawyer whose 

 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 

 the San Francisco Bar. 



As for the physicians, they took from the first a 

 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 

 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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