All friends of higher education must rejoice in the announcement that the Pacific States are to possess a university which bids fair to rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest, may not count in their number the smiling member from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that no mismanagement, such as is only too common in works of this time will prevent the fulfilment of the brilliant plans for the establishment of the University.
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