18933 Intimate Sayings 



that a large registration should never be our goal. 

 And he further made the practical request that not 

 one dollar should be spent in advertising, directly 

 or indirectly. 



That women should be educated as thoroughly Equal 

 as their brothers was an axiom to him; coeducation 

 was thus taken for granted. To quote from the ar- 

 ticles of endowment: 



We have provided that the education of the sexes shall be 

 equal deeming it of special importance that those who are 

 to be mothers of the future generation shall be fitted to mold 

 and direct the infantile mind at its most critical period. 



Beauty and fitness were to him vital elements 

 in education; "nothing is unimportant in the life 

 of man." For these reasons he laid special stress 

 on the physical charms of Palo Alto. The day 

 before his death he said: 



I learn every year more and more to love the landscape, 

 and this the poorest man in California can enjoy as well as the 

 richest. 



From time to time I jotted down some of his 

 intimate sayings: 



If it rained twenty-dollar gold pieces until noon every day, Increase 

 at night there would be some men begging for their suppers, of 



I would have this institution help to fit men and women for in d ldua 

 usefulness in life by increasing the individual power of pro- 

 duction. There can be no limit to education till we reach the 

 limit to the power of production, the power to use the forces 

 of nature. Every man ought to be taught to live and to work 

 to the best advantage and to have an intelligent idea of the 

 thoughts of the day. 



Growth of civilization goes with increase of cooperation. 



In this last connection he often referred to a 

 luncheon he had once eaten at Humboldt, Nevada, 



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