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lavished on it her private fortune, endowing it far be-
yond its original plan, and opening to it unprecedented
opportunities of service. The work of the Trustees is
made easy by the foundations which she 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 university 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 dissemination and practical application 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 speed and action consistent with this non-partisan character be freely accorded to everyone connected with the institution". She often urged upon the Trustees the hopes of her husband and herself in founding the institution, "not alone to give the
student a techical