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Show TOO GOOD FOR CALIFORNIA. ' The Brooklyn Eagle thinks the handsome hand-some endowment of Governor Stanford for a university too good for California. True, California as yet has no great population, popu-lation, nor has her educational svstfm reached so high a standard that she alone can supply a full corps of students to a university of the first order. It is the merit of a true university that it is not local or sectional, but is universal. If the development of the Stanford University shall be commensurate with its endowment, it will be. not merely a great pride in California, but it will be a great pride throughout America. Harvard is in Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, but every person in ' the United States who lias an interest in higher education feels a pride of country to think America has a Harvard. So it is with the John Hopkins University, and jso it will be with the Stanford Univer-j Univer-j sity. A university to reach the greatest j heights in Science and literature must be j situated where learning is general and where the intellectual atmosphere is con- "j , genial. Of all American cities, perhaps ! j Boston furnishes these conditions more i j plentifully than any other city, but she j j owes her eminence in this respect to the I I close proximity of Harvard. As the years I roll by and the Stanford University do- ! i velops itself . in accordance with i i what " now seems its deinv, it i will give to California that" con-1 servatism and intellectual impulse which characterize the spread of the highest j education. Imposing chapels and stately halls do not make a great university, but j if a university has the intellectual great-ness great-ness these things add to its grandeur. It j may be expected that these things will have' their place in the Stanford Uni-! versity, but if the plan of the endowment ! is carried out, they will be but auxiliaries ' to the true idea of the University. The ! Stanford University is nt toogood'forCal- i ifornia, and if California appreciates it at its true worth, it will give to California a destiny and a grandeur which she would otherwise be wanting. The East should not envy the West this great blessing, but rather should she rejoice at it. The Eagle says that "travel now-a-days is so-easy and so swift that a - few days could bring, all those, " who will avail themselves of the new university to any of the older universities, and with such an endowment the latter would draw large numbers of students from all parts of the world." Such an argument ap-. plies equally well in favor of the great universities of Europe; and if Governor Stanford's endowment would draw students stu-dents from all parts of the world if it had been for the benefit of some Eastern university, uni-versity, why may it not draw them to the West? It was California that furnished the John Hopkins Uni versity a President notwithstanding the numerous institutions institu-tions of learning in the East from which the Trustees of that institution might have drawn one. Perhaps Berkeley was right after all when he said : "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way." j |