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pression when she sometimes sold even her jewels to carry on
the work. She lavished on it her private fortune, endowing
it far beyond its original plan, and opening to it unprece-
dented opportunities of service. The work of the Trustees
is made easy by foundations which she has laid with painful and
unceasing toil.

A devoted wife and mother, the loss of her son and then
of her husband did not unnerve or embitter her, but turned
her affection and activities into wider channels. The moving
spirit of the founders of the University, as declared and
manifested by her, was a desire to render the greatest possible
service to mankind. She made her gifts to the University more
generous to enable it to offer instruction so nearly free
"that it may resist the tendency to the stratification of
society, by keeping open an avenue whereby the deserving and
exceptional may rise through their own efforts from the lowest
to the highest stations in life". She made it really a uni-
versity by her wise ordering that "while its chief object is
the instruction of students with a view to producing leaders
and educators in every field of science and industry, it is
also designed to advance learning, the arts and sciences; and
to this end the institution should assist, by experimentation
and research, in the advancement of useful knowledge, and in
the dessemination and practical applicatiom of the same". She
scrupulously required that "the University must be maintained
upon a strictly non-partisan and non-sectarian basis," but she
also provided that "the greatest freedom of speech and action