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prise dwellings for professors and students, class-rooms, 

 workshops, libraries, museums, etc., and could be almost in- 

 definitely extended as desrred. It was intended for all classes, 

 from the poorest to the most wealthy, and to furnish a com- 

 plete education from the kindergarten up to the highest de- 

 partments of human knowledge, including the applications of 

 science to industry and the arts. Arrangements would be 

 made for the students to board themselves at the lowest pos- 

 sible cost. Mr. Stanford had gone into this question, and he 

 assured me that in the best American hotels, where the rates 

 are four or five dollars a day, the actual cost of the food, 

 including cooking, is not more than from two to three dollars 

 a week for each person. 1 



1 My friend, Professor J. C. Branner, has kindly sent me the latest 

 register of the university, together with a popular account of it, with 

 excellent photographic illustrations and plans ; and it may interest my 

 readers to have some particulars of this newest and in many respects 

 most remarkable, of great educational institutions. 



The whole design, of which I saw the drawings, appears to have 

 been now carried out, and the result is very striking. The educa- 

 tional buildings, including a magnificent church, are arranged around 

 a central quadrangle, five hundred and eighty feet long by two hun- 

 dred and forty-six feet wide. Around this are arranged twenty-six 

 spacious buildings, each devoted to one department of study, and these 

 are grouped around a series of outer courts, the whole forming a 

 quadrangle about nine hundred feet by seven hundred and seventy 

 feet. Quite detached, at various distances around, are the boarding- 

 houses for the students, the residences of the professors, a general 

 library, gymnasium, workshops, and laboratories, and a magnificent 

 museum around a central court, six hundred feet by two hundred feet. 

 The educational portion is massively constructed of stone or concrete, 

 and a very striking feature, and one well adapted to the climate is 

 that both the inner and the outer quadrangles are surrounded by con- 

 tinuous arcades, supported on massive stone pillars with groined roofs 

 and about twenty feet wide, thus affording communication between 

 the whole of the buildings, with complete protection from the ardent 

 sun of California. These magnificent cloisters aggregate a mile and 

 a quarter in length ; and at the more important entrances the semi- 

 circular arches are highly decorated with carved ornamentation in 

 the Moorish style, and are supported on clustered columns. 



The museum is a very fine building in a graceful Romano-Grecian 

 style, and is full of fine works of art of all periods, as well as speci- 



