The Days of a Man 



The kin- 

 dergarten 



Sale of 

 the stud 



supplementary series, the whole being privately 

 printed. 



One of the interesting features of the Farm was 

 "the kindergarten," a trotting track for young colts 

 on which they were taught to maintain the proper 

 gait from the beginning, and which thus served as 

 basis for an orderly and progressive training. With 

 a somewhat similar notion in regard to human edu- 

 cation Mr. Stanford often dallied, imagining a school 

 which should receive only a limited number of chil- 

 dren and train them continuously from kindergarten 

 to university. The suggestion stirred up a certain 

 amount of ridicule, but it held more than a modi- 

 cum of sound sense, although it overlooked the 

 necessity of a broader range of environment for the 

 human colt. 



During Stanford's lifetime, notwithstanding the 

 occasional sale of a record maker at a fabulous sum, 

 maintenance of the Stock Farm was a costly experi- 

 ment, even though justified by the pleasure it gave 

 its owner and the scientific results he achieved. 

 After his death, pressure of financial difficulties (due 

 to matters I shall later discuss) made it necessary 

 in 1896 to sell the whole stud for whatever it might 

 bring. Obviously the University was in no position 

 to speed horses on the turf, the only method of 

 establishing their rank in the racing world and con- 

 sequently their financial value. 



Architecturally the buildings of Stanford Uni- 

 versity are of a type happily derived, though with 

 some difference in detail, from the Franciscan 



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