Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

San Francisco, Cal., June 8th, 1900.

I, Charles G. Lathrop, a resident of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, and the person referred to in annexed and foregoing Instrument creating Leland Stanford Junior Memorial Scholarship, do hereby accept the duties set forth and prescribed in the said instrument, and hereby agree to devote all funds received by me from said Union Trust Company of San Francisco from said trust property for the purposes and in the manner set forth in said Instrument. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of June, 1900.

(Sgd.) Chas G. Lathrop

County Clerk State of California, City and County of San Francisco

I, H. I. MULCREVY County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, and ex-officio Clerk of the Superior Count thereof, the same being a Court of Record, Do HEREBY CERTIFY, That

James Mason

whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowledgment, a Notary Public, in and for said City and County, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the acknowledgments in said State, to be recorded therein. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Notary Public, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set hand and affixed the seal of said Court, the 14th-day of Feb., 1908.

H. I. Mulcrevy. Clerk.

Seal The James H. Barry Co. 212-214 Leavenworth St.

Per "Hong Kong Maru" No. 2586

Pacific Mail Steamship Company Office, 421 Market Street

P.O. Box 2313

San Francisco April 15, 1902

Messrs. H. Hackfeld & Co. Ltd., Agents, Pacific Mail S.S. Co., Fort and Queen Sts., Honolulu.

Gentlemen:--

Passage, Mrs. Leland Stanford

Mrs. Leland Stanford, together with her secretary, maid and valet, sailed for Honolulu per S.S. "Sierra" on the 10th instant.

We are informed that Mrs. Stanford may desire to proceed to Japan by our S.S. "China" sailing from your port on April 20th, and we have accordingly reserved accommodations for her and her secretary, etc. Upon receipt hereof will you please have one of your representatives call on Mrs. Stanford (she will probably be staying at the Moana Hotel, or her address can be secured from the First National Bank of your City), and ascertain if it is the lady's intention to do as above indicated; if so, to make all the necessary arrangements for tickets, etc. As above mentioned, we will make necessary reservations on the "China," which, of course, can be cancelled in the event of Mrs. Stanford not making the trip.

Please furnish all the information and assistance you can in this matter, all of which will be appreciated not only by Mrs. Stanford but by,

Yours faithfully,

Alex. Center, General Agent

Cy. to Mrs. L.S.

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Exhibit ''M''.

Report of Address of Dr. Ross at mass meeting in opposition to oriental immigration as reported in the San Francisco CALL of May 8, 1900:

"Professor E. A. Ross of Stanford University followed in a thoughtful and eloquent discussion of the economic phases of the problem. He declared that primarily the Chinese and Japanese are impossible among us because they cannot assimilate with us; they represent a different and an inferior civilization to our own and mean by their presence the degradation of American labor and American life. We demand a protection for the American workman as well as for American products, the speaker insisted. And should the worst come to the worst it would be better for us if we were to turn our guns on every vessel bringing Japanese to our shores rather than to permit them to land."

The headlines under which this report among those of other speakers at the meeting were as follows:

WARNING AGAINST COOLIE "NATIVE AND JAPANESE.

CITIZENS IN MASS MEETING ASK PROTECTION FROM THE INFLUX OF ASIATIC HORDES.

INVASION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE DENOUNCED.

(Copy)

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Leland Stanford Junior University

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Stanford University, Cal., May 28, 1901

EXHIBIT ''Q''.

Dear Sir:

The following circular letter, undated, mailed May 27th, 1901, in San Francisco, has been received by members of the Faculty of Stanford University:

The University of Nebraska

Lincoln.

Dear Sir:

I wish to bring to the attention of my former Colleagues a matter of fact touching my honor.

Many seem to have the impression that in 1897 I allowed my footing in the University to be changed. I wish therefore to state distinctly that I never accepted a peculiar, irregular or probational status in Leland Stanford Junior University.

The contrary impression appears to arise from a document dated April 3, 1897 which is addressed to me and is in the form of reappointment for 1897-8 and a leave of absence on half pay for 1898-9, but attaches the condition that I am to hand in at once my resignation as Professor of Sociology the same to be ultimately accepted by the President if the best interests of the University should seem to require it.

Surely, in showing this document as evidence of my probational status, the University authorities must have forgotten that it is now in their hands because I promptly returned it to the President with the statement that I was unwilling to comply with its terms. They overlook the fact that I never wrote the resignation it called for and cannot that in consequence of my protest the document was revoked and I received on April 8, 1897 a reappointment absolutely without conditions.

Very respectfully yours,

Signed, E. A. Ross.

Under date of April 8th, the following memorandum, a copy of which is on record, was mailed to Professor Ross:

Memorandum.

To Dr. E. A. Ross:

It is understood that unless Dr. Ross should choose to do otherwise, he shall retain the Professorship of Social Science for 1897-98 on the present terms, and that in 1898-99 he shall have the usual sabbatical year on the same terms as other professors, if such leave of absence be then granted. It is further understood that he shall retire from the University