The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1898, Page 12

12 WHERE THE NEW ONIVERSITY °F CALIFORNIA WILL RISE OLD OUNIVERSITY © N> % s 28 ! e %, S 7 T & MOo1ious 1a 1din are wiped out of exist B ent bu sity m to be STANFORD UNIVERSITY | oot & days And Its Position. BY PRESIDENT DAVID STARR JORDAN. were looking 'n the “Ne £ does not rise much al s s f r cheese i 5e 1 Univer 1 t in the soft light of the Deceruber Ak ; no shine. era” is dav or likely to I turned and looked at the professor I trust that an “What? down dear that whic down old libre v building rk newspaper, the Mail and 90l of mine: f is to be ri along A the Golde B On to be others, all in the course. must de For one : of architecture and con- the general plan of con- I believe that one will | if v to come ‘“‘delive year would for ) below the surface to find | struction. lectures in ble halls to just what it pre “Our new home is to be absolutely 5 pompous forms | perfect. On vonder hill just above to conceal idle action or | P : ; A e ™ b | where the big oak grows the obse : z oms and lab- gown Jpresha , ory will stand oratories of the new institution have dia multitinde of Tn- {ROR ¥ BEBE SR ST o n crowded to the ut from the 1 the past.. Stanford | As the D et of opening. In the clas men wear no gowns. The university | whole face of nature embellished by the ready in 1861 for has no p - make-believes, wheth- [ art of man. Towers of shining marble er pious or worldl A% amused the boyh in their prope catt observ erve me fro He was not st man, who, at h sort of fellow. education to-daj A man is educated w The to) which of culture are kept “Of all horned Greeley, the college g aking of the Stanford :st, is quite another :nce of hig rose high in the air and the sun fla on gilded domes. Fountains played, and the air was filled with music. The s of the campus was as green as rald. “Are you sure this is all going to be?” I asked. en million dollars is already se- cured and more is sure to be on hand crowded in 1898 le percentage Mexlco & the It hen he has ha Its profe kind of schooline needful to make a|hen anted. Archi s are now at A thest man of him. Not the kind which five | york fi..ishing the working plans. For have found more than the bundredy as used to make a time past several of us had earn- of one man to thei gentle an of John Doe discussed the project of having or of ¥ will ¢ day ind which he particular b of to- vill make a man of him. reached the end of my space, ; buildings erécted on a d plan with a definite archi ural ign in view. Here we have the finest university site in the world and that th unive > In Ca i § - a” at | we wanted to see it taken advantage what are its wor G et unspoken. Perhaps it | of: to see it properly embellished. We It is not for r b never be told. _T‘vrhnna ) one | tajked the matter over time and again, too near the wor who ¥ through its gates may tell | phut could not see how to gain our first unfore a little of it. | point—money. With money we could s The architectural motive of the old | obtain the proper plans for a university 3 Francis ions is strengthened | and also the power to carry out the lered n and fitt needs of another mis- | plans. The» came along the woman What is ideally best, but what is oot S1on, not less sacred than that hallowed | who gave a practical turn to all our under the circumstances. The tre. DY, the life of Junipero Serra. Dlans and thus made the start in what Something of it all comes from the charm of California« itself. Stanford University could exist in no other set- will be the New University of Califor- nia, and with this site and the plans proposed it is bound to be the most mendous strain of life and death lit wantonly thri levoted founde ting. The inds of freedom” blow | beautiful institution architecturally in over Californi he sunshine floods her | the whole world. In this ti valle very month in the vear. Some| ‘Mrs. Hearst began by furnishing the time the most lovable, the most gra- | money to get a ‘set of designs made oped fous of all the States of our Uni by some of the greatest living arc fous of a e § £ I i e g archi- scholz p, perhaps, but rather those now X for r on | by sol of nerve, faith and endurance, The ™MaY become the most enlightened, the | tects and also guaranteed a couple of most wise. It is the true policy of Cali- fornia, through her.two great universf- ties, to make the shores of her bay the educational center of the United States. million dollars to be used in erecting two buildings in the new designs. Her action pointed the way to many others of our best citizens. Several of them vexatious lawsuit and the successive victor at football were not without a certain relation of cause and effect. If we must choose from the old This can he done through wise managé- | have mad: mises that indicate we stock of “Stanford ideals” I should ment and wise expenditures, Whem it | oo hon gvgoss}m‘om when the work say that the highest one was this. A {5 accomplished our State will take and | begins, There is. enough on hand now university, like an individual, must hold her rightful place among the |to carry on the work for several yeara have a character of its own. If it is States of our Union. The center of | The general scheme of a new uni- merely a collection of books, desks, beauty already, California will become | versity home dates back {0 a certain chemicals, microscopes, rules and reg- ulations, with professors anxious coiefly ‘to hold down their jobs,” it the center of high thought, -the center of wise action. DAVID STARR JORDAN. day a good many years ago when Prof. LIBRARY @ HALL of MECHANICS, S A %’3 y e Qe ~i~L. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1898. . N X NORTH @ SOUTH HALL ACROSS THE CAMPUS, PRESENT ONIVERSITY. Des a n, Will Rise on ig lding bui ent of cted w ounded by | jjoined that the | 1l on one harmo- junction had not to bui i.‘l_{“r the | beck, We rid unive State destined to I h Wi the ave Th reit n the Unio We should | lopt a plan for on 1te university which shall be worthy of the magni- t site, and also of the great State it belongs to.” . propositic s, but the e all rig irged upon the | “but such of money. to spenc way. Th 1d not in Spa get just as much for the money hey in use by at y eloquent pre: ) the (1 ¢ are | od, p! busine but | much too small In 1896, when the class rooms would not hold the students, an attempt was made to tents. It w not a success, The heat of the Berkeley sun threatened to turn the t s of the poor students as they broiled at their the white canvas. Then came Mrs. Phebe A. Hear She wanted to found a memorial to her husband which s s her love for to make the memc State University. In ssing the plan of “how and where” the whole in- truction of the buildings d. “We want to unite the of the world to plan a ersity. We have the ould show his as well . She wanted architec home for the un most perfect site and we want build- ings worthy of the site,” Professor Jones said to her. % then, do you not carry out plan?”’ she asked him. We have not the money.” ““Then allow me to bear the expense."” was the first step, and when the pestion was answered the uni- sity me enthusiastic. Mrs. Hear: “I have only one wish in this m hat the plans adopted should be worthy of the great university whose material home are to provi for, that the | harmonize with and even enhance the beauty of the site, whereon this home is to be bailt, and that they should re- dound to the glory of the State whose culture and civilization are to be nursed and developed at its university." Fifty thousand dollars was deposited in a London bank, but the cost has al- ready been twice this amount. The presidents of the leading uni- versities were all called upon for their views regarding the advisability of the undertaking. They took an unexpected interest and every one of them replied and every one said in substance what President Charles William Eliot of Harvard said in his reply: “If some great benefactor of the unis versity (Harvard) should desire to do a work that should hand down his name in ever increasing honor with poster- their | | that ity, he might require the destruction mutually helpful, harmonious’ and ef- . PLANNING ONE OF THE MOST IMPOSING z Imstitutions in the World. |Every Stone of the State University at Berkeley Wili Be Razed and Noble Buildings, Erected According to a Har- the Site. better agree with its object as e for the education of the youth f the nation. Such a superb work hardly to be expected in this genera- but at some time it must be ac- lished by in or by public the un v (Harvard) is “arry out its most important ¢ is what is_to be done for the State University of All the present buildings are to be re- Two of them are memorial, and the gymnasium. Mr. . Bacon left many books and bus ndition that the State of e a like sum for the build- of a_ gymnasium. ; would be des alifornia g and equipment ked for advice that the ht be obtained. of Burnham & Root, Chi- ho was the architect of the World's Fair buildings, said in his reply: “It will be a work many times the n e of the buildings for the World ir. The world ha: never seen such a plan on guch a scale before was ( ried to a completion.” The carrying out of the de- tails for receiving and judging the plans was intrusted to the municipality of Antwerp. The ns were sent to the American Consul and each sealed and signed only by a number. After they were handed over to the city by the American Consul seals were placed over each signature <0 that no one could know to whom the plans belonged. A jury of five men had been se- i: R. Norman Shaw, 6 Ellerdale Hampstead, England; J. L. *al, 8§ Boulevard St. Denis, Paris; Wallot, 6 Hahnelstrass, Dres- ; Walter Cook, 674 Broadway, New J. R. Reinstine, 217 Sansome San Francisco, Cal. zentlemen met in Antwerp in nning of October to judge the plans which were then in the care of the city. They selected the five which they considered the best, and to these $20,000 in prizes were distributed. Of those accepted the architects all rom the Ecole des Beaux Arts of but thre eof them were Amer- fean: The architeets were mnot limited in any wa Money was not considered nor were the architects hampered by Homes were asked for, museums, gymnasiums, art lecture rooms, class rooms, entific laboratories, and all the usual iccompaniments of a great seat of learning. Besides, dormitories for 5000 students are to be included and club- houses, armory and indoor and outdoor drilling spaces. The trees on the campus, the great oaks which are the pride of the univer- sity, are not to be removed or dis- lodged. Most of the trees are ever- green, so that in winter as well as sum- mer the campus will be at its best. At Mrs. Hearst’'s expense the five successful architects at the Antwerp competition are visiting San Francisco s0 as to make a careful study of the site and of the requirements and also of the character of the surrounding landscape. They are to return to their homes and prepare definite plans. These plans are to be submitted to the same preliminary jury which judged sci of all the buildings erected in the last | the plans in Antwerp, with the addition half century, and their reconstruction | of four architects. with simple and beautiful designs in |tects are to be chosen from a list of These four archi- five names each sent in by the five C. W. Jones and Mr. B. W. Maybeck | fectitve relation to each other, so that | architects who are entitled to compete were discussing the urgent necepsity of [ the outward aspect of the university ] for the final plan, And Its UNIVERSITY the name is one of the things that give distinction to a State. In the tern States Harvard h: long shed a luster on Mas chusetts, Yale on Connecticut, Prince- Jerse Abroad Berlin, zig and a whole cluster of unive ties have helped to place Germany in the very front rank of nations. Oxford and Cambridge are the imperishable glory of England. The sons of bleak Scotland have gone forth from Edin- boro to Aberdeen to win pre-emi- nence in many lamds. Among our own State universities Michigan has led the way of success, and reflects no small glory on that commonwealth. Other States have followed her lead, and now a long chain of State foundations is rising to an assured and noble place in our American world. Thirty years ago California laid the foundations of such an institdtion. It built on the bounty of the nation, on its own subsidies, on the voluntary seif- surrender of the older college of Cali- fornia. The State of California ha ways been generous to its univers but in the nature of things the growth of the new institution was slow The call for the higher education was lim- ited, the repute of the young university was not yet a powerful magnet: so the graduates of Eastern colleges preferred to send their sons to the old homes. Our university had its fluctuations; at times it even receded in numbers and influence. But on the whole it made substantial progress. In 188 an impor- tant forward step was taken, when a one-cent tax was granted, in lieu of specific appropriations, by the Legisia- ture. Not many years afterward the number of students began to increase in a remarkable way) From a round 400 in 1890, the attendance at Berkeley ran rapidly up to over 1300 in 180 The Legislature of 187 granted an additional one-cent tax, and voted it without a dissenting vo Its visiting committees found at Berkeley the most pressing need for this assistance. The buildings were greatly overcrowded, worthy of the instructors’ classes were twice or thrice too large for proper manage- ment. Great rellef has been afforded by this additional income. Several new buildings have been erected, and the subdivided sections have been more ef- ficlently taught. But even then the university’s funds have by no means kept pace with the multiplied numbers of the students. In the past ten years the numbers to be provided for have increased more than fourfold. At pres- ent the student roll at Berkeley runs up to nearly 1600. The State's good faith is pledged to give to all of them suit- able rooms, equipment and instruction. Of course, it would be a deathblow to our progress if any part of the State’s aid were withdrawn. The new era for our university is grounded on the sassurance that Cali- fornia will continue to be a generous foster-mother. We cannot believe that as the university has grown stronger and more distinguished the citizens of the State will lose thelr interest in it, or JLallow its just claims to go nubeeded, UNIVERSITY OF “ P CALIFORNIA Future. BY PRESIDENT MARTIN KELLOGG. California’s pride is too great for that. Our reputation is good throughout the land, and “‘not half bad” across At- lantic. The alumni of the university form a noteworthy nucleus of publio sentiment. Our s and daughters will keep us all in mind of our high educa- tional obligation: The State may justly expect the co= operation” of private beneficence, and the most striking sign of the new era is that such beneficence has set strong- ly in our i tion. Important gifts from individuals had been received be- fore, but all too seldom for our full en- couragement, Tompkins, Reese, Har- mon, Bacon, Mills—such names wera scattered thinly along the years. But now we rejoice in still amplex and_ still more fiequent gifts. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, after valuable a!d to the Lick Observatory and still valuable help in scholarships women, has now delighted chanted us by her new and splendid benefactions. ‘While we were congratulating our- selves on these benefactions another noble-minded woman lately bestowed also a magnificent gift. The property at Menlo Park given by Miss Cora Jane Flood will in time possess great valye for the university, and especially: for its newly organized college of com- merce. To go further back, the gift of Hon. Adolph Sutro of a site for the Affiliated Colleges building is to be counted among our most important pos- sessions, and the generosity of Edward F. Searles, Esa., in the gift of the Mark Hopkins Institute, is likewise princely. The Levi Strauss scholarships come into the same recent cycle. Our library has been enriched by many important donations. It is nct the fact of one great gift that makes a new era so much as the clustering together of gifts, like the jewels of a diadem, evincing the deep interest of the people of the State in their university. The opening of the new era. will be signalized by the flourishing condition of a century plant long maturing, viz., the close affiliation between the uni- versity and the schcols of the State. B ts range of studies the uni sity is at the head of the school system. But it claims no authority and it nec the hearty co-operation of the h schools. For years it has been offer its aid to these schools, and thr them to the lower schools. Ther probably no State in the Union wh these reciprocal relations are more dial or more promising for the stabili 3 and.prosperity of the university. These are a few of the considera Which seem to justify us in spi of & new era for the State University. Its growth was nearly always firm and sure. Its more recent growth has been Phenomenal. It has the good will of the citizens at large. The farmers rec- 0gnize its good work for them; the mer- chants hail the establishment of th new college of comgmerce. Splendid gifts for buildings are peuring in, which need only to be complemented by en- dowments for many chairs of instruc- tlon. If the university is wisely di- rected in the future, if regents, faculty and students cherish the true university spirit our brightest hopes for the new era cannot fall of realization. ]