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At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Leland
Stanford Junior University, held this eighteenth day of
March, 1905, the following minutes on the death of the
late MRS. JANE LATHROP STANFORD was presented from the Committee previously appointed, and after
discussion, was unanimously adopted. It was ordered
to be spread in full on the minutes of the Board, to be
engressed and placed in the Library of the University
and to be furnished to the press.

The honored life of Jane Lathrop Stanford is closed.
After years of loneliness and sorrow, of singlehearted
devotion and sacrifice, she saw at last her beloved Uni-
versity fully equipped and endowed for its great mission, the noblest monument ever erected by parental
love. Her busy mind was still forming new plans and hopes for its future, when she met her death. Her name
and work will live, and it is fitting that those whom she
selected to maintain what she had built, and who have
been especially honored by her friendship and confidence, should publicly declare their knowledge of her nobility of character, her efforts and her success.
In 1885 Mrs. Stanford joined with her husband in
executing the founding grant of the Leland Stanford
Junior University in memory of their only son whose
name it bears. Her husband's death in 1893 left the
work barely begun, and added to her grief the crushing
burden of responsibilities such as her sheltered life
had never known. She bravely took up the load. Her
strength and skill grew with her task and were equal to
each occasion. "Wise, steadfast in the strength of
God, and true", for ten years she directed the business
affairs of the University, planned and superintended the
erection of its buildings, and moulded its academic
policy. She guided it through crippling legal entangle-
ments, through embarrassing internal dissensions, and
through dark days of financial depression when she sometimes sold even her jewels to carry on the work. She (1)