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I knew of it, having read of it
in the papers, and was informed
through no one connected
with the railroad company,
but by some of our leading
conservative citizens, who are
in sympathy with, and deeply
interested in the future welfare
of the University, and alive to
the dangerous tendencies, which
in time will rebound and reflect
against us all. [He?]

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May 17, 190[1?0?]

Dr D. S. Jordan Stanford University

Dear Dr. Jordan:-

I have just reached
home after a fatiguing trip
to Vina, and find your letter
of May the eleventh.

All that I have to say
regarding Prof. Ross, however
brilliant and talented he may
be, is that a man cannot en-