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Mr. Preseident Faculty and Students of the Lealnd Stanford Jr.
University:

I desire to state that in the few remarks I am about to make
I speak for Mrs. Stanford as well as for myself for she has been
my active and sympathetic co-adjutor and is co-grantor with me in
the endowment and establishment of this University. In its behalf
her prayers have gone forth that it may be a benefactor to humanity
and receive the blessing of the Heavenly Father.

On the 14th day of May 1887, the corner stone of this quad-
rangle was laid and on this first day of October 1891 we meet to
formally throw open the doors of the institution. Of those present
at the laying of the corner stone many are here today but some of
them are with us only in spirit and in memory.

For Mrs. Stanford and myself this ceremony marks an epoch in
our lives for we see in part the realization of the hopes and
efforts of years for you Faculty and Students the work begins
now and it is to commemorate this commencement of your labors that
we are here assembled.

That which we have bestowed upon the establishment and endow-
meant of this Institution we have been more than once advised to
turn into other channels. It has several times been suggested to
us that there was a limit to the beneficence of education, that
that limit has been reached in this county and that the public
private and endowed schools and colleges already more than supplied
all the needs of the community but we have thought differently.
We do not believe there can be superfluous education. As man can-
not have too much health and intelligence so he cannot be too highly educated. Where in the discharge of responsible or humble