George Melvin

“ It is a far cry from the simple walls that sheltered the brown-hued savage to the magnificence of Stanford, and the beauty of Berkeley, but it may be accepted as a proof and a recognition of the eternal fitness of things that Stanford's splendid quadrangle retains the motif of the early mission, and has pre- served in enduring stone an architectural type which is, above all others, in harmony with the blue, unclouded skies and sunshine-flooded hills of California. ”

“ Martin Kellogg, the former president, was one of the first professors in the College of California.
The best evidence of the vital interest which the people of the state take in educational progress is to be found in the laws which they have made and the obligations which they have imposed upon themselves to the end that means shall never be lacking wherewith to secure the best in regard to instruction and appliances.
"The state has a permanent school fund of $4,000,000, invested in United States, state, county and city bonds, the interest of which goes into its annual school fund. ”

“ The Indians were given religious instruction, it is true, but they were also taught to plant and sow, to spin and weave, and, all things considered, they were apt pupils. That chapter of the history of the West reads like a romance, and can be viewed only through the golden mists that hallow half-forgotten ideals. ”