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but none we saw were so exquisitely kept up as Mr. Stanford's 

 by his thirty Chinese gardeners. 



Next morning I was taken to see the site of the great 

 university he was going to build to the memory of his son. 

 He had here about eight thousand acres of land, in the midst 

 of which the buildings and residences were to stand. There 

 were large wooden offices close by, occupied by the architect 

 and draughtsmen preparing the plans and working drawings ; 

 and the surrounding land was already planted with shade- 

 trees and avenues. The plans showed a central chapel in a 

 Norman, or rather Moorish, style of architecture, surrounded 

 by low, one-storey buildings arranged around spacious courts, 

 about five hundred feet by two hundred and fifty feet, to be 

 laid out in grass, trees, and flower-beds. These buildings 

 were [to comprise dwellings for professors and students, class- 

 rooms, workshops, libraries, museums, etc., and could be almost 

 indefinitely extended as desired. It was intended for all 

 classes, from the poorest to the most wealthy, and to furnish 

 a complete education from the kindergarten up to the highest 

 departments 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 

 possible 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 or 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 educational buildings, including a 

 magnificent churcb, are arranged around a central quadrangle, five hundred and 

 eighty feet long by two hundred 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 round a central court, six hundred feet by two hundred feet. 



