Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

ability, and when finished will have constructed eight large additional buildings.

It will soon be a year since I left home, and, being away from the scene of action, I have had more time to consider and think over plans for the future. On the 21st of June Mr. Stanford will have been gone from earth-life eight years, and in that time I have had a great deal of experience in the affairs of the University, and I have concluded to limit the number of students, for I find, on the part of many connected with the Institution, an ambition to increase the number of students - as they express it "to ten thousand" in the future. This I think is a great mistake.

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ecution of this work. From this same firm I have also ordered to be made, of the very finest marble, an altar 21 ft. long, to be most beautifully carved. The subject on the front is to be a copy of the famous picture by Ciccere, called the "Entombment". It contains the figures of Mary, the beloved Mother, Mary the Sister of Martha and Mary the Magdalene, at the head, and the body of our Saviour being carried by three of His Deciples [sic - disciples]. It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw. They are also executing the altar rail. The spandrils [sic - spandrels] in the arches supporting the steeple of the church, (which is 168 ft high) are each to be decrated with female figures of angels in mosaics on a gold background, very large and