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her thoroughly equipped normal schools and her state university.

The broad policy outlined and pursued by the commonwealth has been generously supplemented by individual effort and munificence. As witness the splendid legacy of James Lick in the California School of Mechanic Arts at San Francisco, and in the observatory that crowns the summit of Mount Hamilton; the Throop Institute, of Pasadena; the Cogswell Polytechnic School at San Francisco, and many others there and throughout the state, to say nothing of the vast number of private schools and colleges that find a liberal patronage.

Whether it be along industrial, professional or scientific lines, the schools of California rank well with those of any other state in the Union. And the whole system may be said to culminate in the magnificent memorial that is the crowning glory of education on the Pacific slope — the Leland Stanford, Junior, University. Opened in 1891 under the administration of Dr. David Starr Jordan, it has been a powerful stimulus to the cause of education in California, or, as Mr. Hoitt has it, "a lifting force to the educational strength of the state." Stanford University, founded through the munificence of Leland Stanford, recalls