Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

Northern Pacific Railway Company, or to its Transfer Agents in the City of New York, State of New York, for such discharge from registration or endorsement to bearer;

And Be It Further Resolved; That said Charles G. Lathrop, as such treasurer, is hereby constituted and appointed the true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for and in the name and stead of said The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, but to its use, to bargain, sell, assign and transfer to bearer the said bonds; and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and to execute and deliver all other papers necessary for that purpose, and one or more persons to substitute with like full power; and said Lathrop is hereby by these resolutions further authorized and empowered to irrevocably constitute and appoint such other person or persons as he may select, the true and lawful attorney, for said body corporate and in its name and stead, but to its use, to sell, assign, transfer and make over, the said bonds, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer thereof, and to execute and deliver all other papers necessary for that purpose, and to substitute one or more persons with like power; hereby ratifying and confirming all that said Charles G. Lathrop, said attorney or attorneys, or any of said substitute or substitutes or appointees, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

Copy SanFrancisco, California, Feb. 29th, 1908.

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University hereby acknowledged the receipt from the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Jane L. Stanford, deceased, of the sum of $259,618.33, the same having been paid by check No. 82 of said Executers, dates February 29th, 1908, on the Union Trust Company of San Francisco; said sum of $259, 618. 33, being purchase price in full for 238 5% First Mortgage bonds of the Northern Railway Company of California, due 1938, with coupons due April 1st, 1908, and thereafter, attached, the numbers of said bonds being as follows: 1021 to 1026, both inclusive, 1383 to 1424, both inclusive, 1266 to 1319, both inclusive, 1532 to 1564, both inclusive, 1601 to 1649, both inclusive, 2438 to 2450, both inclusive, 2843 to 2853, both inclusive, and 2611 to 2635, both inclusive. Said bonds being registered in the name of The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University were forwarded to New York to be discharged from registration and have been so discharged from registration and are now being returned to San Francisco, California, for account of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Jane L. Stanford, deceased. It is further understood that all expenses for expressage, insurance, discharge of said bonds from registration and all other charges of every kind shall be borne by the undersigned. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, By (Signed) Charles G. Lathrop

Treasurer and Manager.

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The undersigned have examined the evidence submitted by the above committee, and believe that it justifies the conclusions which they have drawn:

Horace White, editor of Evening Post, New York.

John B. Clark, Columbia University.

Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan.

Frank W. Taussig, Harvard University.

Richard T. Ely, University of Wisconsin.

Simon N. Patten, University of Pennsylvania.

Richmond Mayo-Smith, Columbia University.

John C. Schwab, Yale University.

Sidney Sherwood, Johns Hopkins University.

Franklin H. Giddings, Columbia University.

William J. Ashley, Harvard University.

Charles H. Hull, Cornell University.

Davis R. Dewey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Henry C. Emery, Yale University.

Henry R. Seager, University of Pennsylvania.

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Appendix.

December 30, 1900.

President Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior University,

Palo Alto, Cal.:

Dear Sir:- In behalf of a considerable number of economists, recently assembled in Detroit and much interested in the resignation of Professor Ross from the Leland Stanford University, we venture to address you on the subject. We understand from the public prints as well as from other sources, that Professor Ross was asked to sever his connection with the University owing to the loss of confidence in him by Mrs. Stanford, and that this loss of confidence was due primarily to the opinions expressed by him in a lecture on the subject of coolie immigration as well as to incidental remarks on the problem of municipal ownership.

May we inquire whether, as it has been alleged in some of the Eastern journals, there are any other reasons than those mentioned for the resignation of Professor Ross, and may we hope that, if such other reasons exist, you may be disposed to communicate them to us? Many university men have been led to believe that in this case the legitimate freedom of thought without which no progress in science is possible has been discouraged. As this is a matter which concerns not a single university, but the interests of scholarship all over the country, we believe that we are not overstepping the bounds of propriety in asking information which will enable university teachers to form a just opinion on the merits of the case.

terminate with the lives of the respective beneficiaries thereof; and upon the termination of each of the said trusts, the principle sum or amount thereof shall become and be a part of the rest and residue of my estate as hereinafter disposed of, and pass under the residuary clause hereof. I give and devise to my friend Mrs James Covert of Albany New York, the house which she is now occupying being No 292 in State Street, Albany with the grounds upon which it is situated; to have and to hold to her for and during the term of her natural life. After her death the said house and grounds are to be part of the rest and residue of my estate as hereinafter disposed of and to pass under the residuary clause hereof.

All my wardrobe, furs, cloaks, wraps, and other articles of apparel, bed and table linen, lace table-cloths, lace bed spreads, lace pillow-slips, all toilet articles of my own my dear husbands and son's Leland Stanford Junior, to be distributed by my brother Charles Gardner Lathrop according to his best judgement between himself his daughter Jennie Stanford Lathrop. The wardrobe of my dear son Leland Stanford Junior and my husband I desire my brother Charles G. Lathrop to dispose of according to