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opinion is that they will immediately reinstate Mr. Davidson
and I have little doubt will re-elect him for another four
years a year from May. The worst of it is that the schools
of San Diego are again in politics after ten years of
immunity. The new board can stop all litigation and
there is no processs by which we can demonstrate what I
believe to be beyond doubt, that the Supreme Court
would have ruled Mr. D. out of office.

It is very probable that Dr. Small will resign at once,
though I shall make an effort to keep him till the end
of April, for he is doing great work. He said he should go
east as he has had enough of California and California
methods. He lost his position at Los Angeles through no
fault of his own and really by political methods.

I am of the opinion that Dr. Small is one of the remark-
ably strong men who have come to this coast. His four
years of post-graduate study at Clark with an unus-
ually sane and strong mind have developed him
broadly and evenly, and his early farm training has given
him a practical turn of immense value.

It has occurred to me, and I am writing without the
knowledge of anyone else that by some lucky accident
you might have use for such a man in Stanford. I