Identifier: historyofsanfra00bank (find matches)
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires
Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nding the many offers, and many of them flat-tering ones, at largely advanced salaries, it is claimedthat not a desertion was recorded in the years of hard-ships. Faithfulness of this kind was followed by a periodof prosperity which, within the next few years, placedthe institution on the pedestal planned for it by itsfounder. The original plans could now be carried out,as the property to the credit of the institution in-creased in value and was freed from any clouded title,such as was cast upon it by the suit of the govern-ment. To lessen the embarrassment to which the univer-sity had b?en subjected through the threatened finan-cial straits Thomas Welton Stanford of Australia an-nounced that with his portion of the bequest of theStanford estate he would erect a library building. Anumber of similar bequests came at this time fromthe Stanford family, increasing the amount of the en-dowment left it by the founder and given it by hiswidow. In doing all of this construction work the Board
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