working capacity [+c?], among the people with whom one comes in daily contact, and that I am happy to say I possess.
Graduate in Honors, of an English University, I am a good Latin and Greek scholar; a good mathematician; have a wide general acquaintance with science: an well read in philosophy and the position I held for four years as Prof. of Literature, Criticism and Rhetoric, a position I could get back any day I would go East to live, sufficient proof of my standing in that branch of learning. Am fairly acquainted with modern literature; fond of books; have travelled much: have had business experience in an insurance office and in a lawyers office and my record as private secretary and short handwriter would not be of disadvantage to me . Am a good English writer had experience as Editorial writer and reporter on a newspaper. Whatever new there is to learn, I have both the ability and will to learn and can do it quickly.
Bodily too, I am not less well equipped for work. As you can see, I am healthy, full of life and activity, fond of working and the one thing I desire is to get some steady position, in which I can put my energies to their best use, and such a chance seems to offer in the Leland Stanford Jr. University. It is the kind of work in which I should like to spend my life and to be connected with the beginning and growth of an institution, which may develop into an enormous power in the intellectual world, just chimes in with all my ambition. You can readily therefore judge how I should work and how every faculty and attainment, I possess or could develop, would be at the service of the University
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