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Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.

President's Office, 3 - 11 - 1905.

Dear Dr. Jordan:

We have read with the greatest interest every
item we could find concerning the death of Mrs. Stanford. We
have read with special interest what you are reported to have
said. I hope your trip to Honolulu, while a sad one, was
not a wearing one. It seems very hard to believe that anyone
would maliciously take the life of Mrs. Stanford.

In 1895 in Indiana when the people of Bloomington were
very much wrought up over the thought of the removal of
Indiana University, and many seemed to have lost their senses,
things looked very dark for the future of the University. The
untimely and unnatural death of Henry S. Bates seemed to bring
people to their senses, and the atmosphere was cleared. Stan-
ford University was born as the result of a great sorrow. I
hope in some way in the Providence of God this present sorrow
will have its joy in the more abundant life of the University.
I hope your path will not be so thorny and that you will now
realize to the full the University for which you have worked
and of which you have dreamed. However this may be, you have
fought the good fight and kept the faith. You have brought
to a successful end a remarkable chapter.

Dr. Andrew D. White spoke here last week on Evolution