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[preprinted] Office of the President
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford University, Cal., 1895 [/preprinted]
[--Dear--] Mrs [insert: JL] Stanford
Dear Madam,
The new [insert: University] Register is [--about to be--] now being printed and [--such][--some--] certain announcements as [--refer--] to next year should be made in it.
I would like your permission to add $5. each semester to the registration fees of the first year [insert][of?] freshmen students and [--to those--] of the [/insert] and special students, [or?][--illegible--] students admitted with examination.[--and to--] [insert: this sum to be] added [--this amount--] [--illegible--] to the salary fund, for next year.
This change would affect only the new students, not [--illegible--] many of those now here. It would enable us to add to our staff teachers enough to take proper care of them. This year, we have been obliged to overcrowd most of the freshman classes, and to neglect work of importance. In one [insert: most important] department especially, mechanical engineering we [--illegible--] cannot possibly
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[preprinted[ Office of the President
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford University, Cal., ____ 189_ [/preprinted]
along with some more help.
[crossed out] The change suggested would be less of a burden than any other which would yield any money. It will not affect the students we now have. It may somewhat reduce the entering class, but if it is not reduced in some way we [--shall be swamped--] [/crossed out]
I know that you do not wish to increase fees if it can be avoided, and I fully sympathize with you in this feeling. [--I trust that you will approve--] Some slight addition is however indispensable and the one suggested will be least burdensome and most just, and I trust that you may approve it.
The salaries [insert: of the faculty] are still sealed down some 6 per cent below [this?] nominal figure, [--but--] I do not however ask to increase them: [crossed out] only to get money enough in addition [to?][/crossed out] from [--the new students, to enable us to that we can--]
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[preprinted] Office of the President
Leland Stanford Junior University [preprinted]
I wish only to be able to get the help necessary to give the new students [insert][--life?--][/insert]
[preprinted] Stanford University, Cal., ____ 189_
[--give them--] proper [--attention--] instruction.
Everything [insert: is] going on nicely here.
Mrs Jordan joins me in kindest regards.
