The Days of a Man 1901 



were at once begun, and in due time completed. 

 Within the next few years, also, two more isolated 

 structures, an imposing Library and a great Gym- 

 nasium for men, rose on the eastern side of the main 

 approach, facing, respectively, the Chemistry Build- 

 ing and the Museum. Meanwhile to the latter great 

 additions had been made by Mrs. Stanford. 

 Millions Practically all this later construction, it should be 

 to play repeated, was paid for out of the three millions re- 

 served by the surviving founder "to play with." 

 Feeling that her life might be cut short at any 

 moment, she was feverishly eager to complete, while 

 she could, as much as possible of the original architec- 

 tural scheme. To prepare for the long future was her 

 immediate duty, she said, even though the academic 

 side should temporarily suffer; a board of trustees 

 might easily be dilatory in the matter of buildings. 

 All of which was no doubt sound reasoning from 

 that point of view. Yet in her natural desire to 

 compass a great deal while strength and "pin money" 

 remained, the brave woman allowed here and there 

 a considerable and disastrous divergence from the 

 monumental structural character of the Inner Quad- 

 rangle. In particular she left out for economy's 

 sake the steel framework which is the essential in 

 "Class A" buildings. That she did not have to see 

 the ruin subsequently wrought by the earthquake 

 of 1906 was a matter of thanksgiving to all her 

 friends. 



In the summer of this year I was asked to take 

 c h ar g e of an extensive investigation of the fish and 

 fisheries fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands. In this duty I was 

 assisted by Evermann, John N. Cobb, Edmund L. 

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