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tiou for the generations that are to
follow. The lesson thus taught will
remain with them through life and help
them to teach the lesson to others. The
university buildings and grounds are for
their use while students , in trust for
students to come.
Another subject I have given serious
consideration to is that wo should not
be nmbitious to increase the present
number of students eleven hundred
for some years. If our Heavenly Father
spares me to become the actual possessor
ser of the property it was intended
should bo mine , it would afford me
great satisfaction to add some necessary
buildings the chapel , library building ,
chemical building , and two additions to
the museum the latter in order to have
a place for the works of art and curios I
direct to have removed there from my
home in this city , my home at Palo
Alto , and my home in Washington , D.
O. , after my departure from earthly
life. Even with the addition of these
buildings the present number of stu
dents would only be made comfortable ,
but they could then use all the rooms in
the quadrangle , which are now over
crowded as recitation rooms. These
buildings are needed , and I hope the
trustees will be able , in the future , to
build them , if I am not during my life
time.
The next subject to which I would
call your special interest and attention
in the future is the mechanical depart
ments. I know full well how important
my husband considered these depart
ments. The Inrge workshops were
fitted up at an enormous expense with
the very finest and best of machinery
and tools. During the first two years
there were over a hundred students
busily engaged in learning how to use
their hands deftly and usefully in the
machine shops. This number , from
some cause which wo cannot under
stand , has been steadily decreasing from
year to year.
It was a theory of my husband that
the labor of a man whose brain has been
developed in conjunction with skilled
hands , made him so superior to the or
dinary workman as to enable him to
command the highest compensation. He
also felt that the presence of these de
partments in the university tended to
greatly dignify labor.
Many of the students como to this
university because the advantages are
free and because they know that they
will 'kbe obliged to carve out their own
future ; and with the encouragemenl
which we will give these departments
in the future they may gladly pursue
this course of study. The professional
world has more than its quota , while
the manual has still room for more
skilled workmen. If these departments
are encouraged , and work in the ma
chine shops and wood-working depart
meuts are made major subjects , their
graduating classes would be Jarger and
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vould readily find responsible positions.
When you put on the armor and take up
ho work where I leave it , 1 charge you
o pay special attention to these depart
ments. Let the laborer keep always
joforo him these words of our precious
Savior : "My father workoth hitherto ,
and I work. "
In the net of the legislature under
vhich the Leland Stanford Junior Uui-
rorsity was founded and is now in exis-
euce , is the following clause : "Tho
) erson making the grant may therein
lesignato such rules and regulations for
lie management of the property con-
feyed as the grantor may elect to pre-
cribe ; but such rules shall , unless the
grantor otherwise prescribe , bo deemed
advisory only , and shall not preclude
such trustees from making such changes
is new conditions may from time to time
require. " And in the sanio ant of the
egislatnre occurs the following clause :
'And in all cases the powers and duties
conferred and imposed by such grant upon
lie trustee or trustees therein named shall
) e exercised and performed by the per
son making such grant , or by his wife ,
during his or her life , as the case may
be ; provided , however , that upon the
death of such person , or his surviving
wife , as the case mny be , such powers
and duties shall devolve upon and shall
30 exercised by the trustees named in
the grant and their successors. "
Now , therefore , under the terms of
: hese clauses and in the exercise of the
powers that the act of the legislature
gives me , I , as remaining grantor of the
Leland Stanford Junior university do
tereby elect to direct that in the future
when a vacancy or vacancies shall occur
in the board of trustees of said univer
sity , either by death , resignation , re
moval , inability to serve , or by any
other cause , said vacancy or vacanies
shall not bo filled until the number of
the members of the board of trustees be
reduced by death , resignation , removal ,
inability to serve , or for any other
cause , to the number of fifteen , after
which as a vacancy may occur it shall
be filled in the manner designated in the
grant of endowment , but the number ol
trustees shall thereafter never exceed
fifteen. In the board of trustees nine
persons shall constitute a quorum , but
the assent of not less than a majority ol
the whole , to-wit , eight , shall be neces
sary for affirmative action in the execu
tion of the trusts herein contained.
And further , in accordance with the
provisions of the aforesaid act of the
legislature , I do hereby elect to direct
That from this time forth when a
member of the board of trustees shal
be appointed , he shall be appointed foi
the term of ten years instead of , as heretofore
tofore , for life. But this shall not opplj
to the members of the present board o
trustees.
In explanation of these , two change
in the board of trustees , I will state ii
regard to the first that during the las
'ow years of my husband's lifetime ho
Tequently discussed with me the ad-
antages of a smaller board than one of
iwenty-four members , and the advisa-
) ility of the number being some day
reduced.
As regards the appointment of mem
bers for a limited term of years instead
of for life , I have considered the matter
rom many standpoints , carefully and
irayerfnlly , and have had the advant-
igo of the experience of 'Other institu
tions governed by boards of trustees ,
vith the result that I deem it important
and beneficial to make the change.
This change , however , does not apply to
my member of the present board.
In making alterations in the original
grant of endowment I feel a solemn con
viction that I am doing what my hus-
jand , were ho still with us , would have
done.
Before closing lot mo further direct
that in course of time the board of trus
tees shall elect and number among its
nembers many of the alumni of the
university.
"Jcar Father in Heaven , I wish Thy
vill to lie done and not mine ; unless my
will be TJty will , I ask for Thine instead
of mine. "
The commander of the United States
forces in Cuba , Major-Goneral Brooke ,
is a native of Pennsylvania. Ho entered
the United States service in 1861 and early
distinguished himself as colonel of the
fifty-third regiment , Pennsylvania vol
unteers. For heroic conduct at Fredericksburg -
ericksburg , December , 1802 , ho was
specially commended by the heroic
Hancock. Entering the regular army
at the close of the civil war promotions
have advanced him to the rank of ma
jor-general in the regular establishment.
In his present assignment , which is
semi-civil , ho is displaying the same
efficiency and good judgment that have
marked his entire military career.
CHU1STIAN SCIENCK.
THE CONSEUVATIVE , at the request of
estimable citizens , publishes in this issue
a sermon by Mrs. Eddy.
Hero comes a French scientific jour
nal with the wonderful news that the
English have a box of sand on the table ,
along with the pepper and salt , and use
all three condiments alike freely on
their food.
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