1899] The Last Lean Year 



ford University. For the great burden of debt and 

 uncertainty had then been finally lifted, and the 

 institution was at last able to look hopefully forward 

 to a strong and symmetrical academic development. 

 In the six years of struggle, we had accomplished 

 not what we had dreamed of as the ideal mission 

 of Stanford, but simply the best possible, every- 

 thing considered. Yet I may truthfully say, in 

 honor of my colleagues, that some of the finest 

 work in higher education anywhere dates from 

 those six lean years; moreover, community of ef- 

 fort and a common anxiety had bound us very 

 closely together. 



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