Memorials, 1905

Washington, D. C.

March 4, [19]05

To Dr. David Starr Jordan:

We are deep in sorrow. Feeling as we do, we must extend to you, who knew and loved Mrs. Stanford so well, our sincerest sympathies. Any mention of our debt to her is quite impossible, for we have received so much more at her hands than can be ever counted or even adequately realized.

We can only say that we grieve with you; and feel, closer than ever before, the bond that has always joined us, through this greatest loss the University has suffered.

The Stanford Association of Washington, D. C.

Mrs. George H. Ashley, A. F. W. Schmidt, Bristow Adams.

Dear Dr. Jordan,

Knowing that not even the loss of one of your own family could could be a greater bereavement to you than the death of Mrs. Stanford. The Stanford men in San Jose hasten to extend to you what slight consolation there may be in their sympathy. I assure you that the following resolutions but feebly express their sorrow. But we all may gain some comfort from the knowledge that a kinder and truer woman than Mrs Stanford never lived.

Most Sincerely

Herbert C. Jones

San Jose, Mar. 13

Resolutions adopted by The Stanford Club of San Jose. Seldom has death brought such deep and widespread sorrow as it has in the passing of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. With bowed heads and sorrowful hearts the world joins with students and graduates of Stanford in mourning her loss. But while the world mourns her loss there are those whose feelings are deeper than the world we know. Though conscious of the inadequacy of any expression that we may make of our grief, we feel, that, as former students of Stanford, the sad death cannot pass without an attempt to voice our feelings, and pay our poor tribute to our benefactress. As an example of generous and

public spirited action, of noble and selfsacrificing devotion to a great ideal, the life of Mrs. Stanford is without a parallel. And in years to come no woman will shine more conspicuously in history than she. The world owes her a debt; but not as great as the debt we owe. The world may appreciate and applaud her generosity; but not with the feeling that moves us. The world may honor and respect her; but we, who saw her in our midst, her great sorrow equalled only by her fond solicitude for us - we love and cherish her. The world may sometime pay a fitting tribute to her; it may erect stately and imposing monuments of solid granite; but the most enduring monument will be that builded in the hearts of those who were privileged to know her, to feel her kindly influence, and see her life spent for the welfare of others. Her example will ever be a source of strength to our lives. And as long as the pillars and