The famous Lick Observatory, stationed on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, is a part of the institution.

It has prospered greatly under its present efficient President, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D.; and it now has three hundred instructors, with over three thousand students.

Tuition is free to all students except in the professional departments.

It has a splendid library of seventy-three thousand volumes.

It will be readily seen that with such an institution of learning, and with the Leland Stanford Jr.