. To California and back; . relief upon regaining the fa-miliar streets of civilization. SANTA CLARA VALLEY. Below the junction of San Franciscos penin-sular with the main land the Santa Clara Val-ley stretches southward between the coast andSanta Cruz ranges. Along this valley lies theway to San Jose and the coast resorts of SantaCruz and Monterey, past intermediate pointsof celebrity. Palo Alto is the site of the Stanford Univer-sity, where in a campus of 8,000 acres, an ar-boretum to which every clime has liberally con-tributed, stands this magnificent memorial of acherished son. The buildi
. To California and back; . relief upon regaining the fa-miliar streets of civilization. SANTA CLARA VALLEY. Below the junction of San Franciscos penin-sular with the main land the Santa Clara Val-ley stretches southward between the coast andSanta Cruz ranges. Along this valley lies theway to San Jose and the coast resorts of SantaCruz and Monterey, past intermediate pointsof celebrity. Palo Alto is the site of the Stanford Univer-sity, where in a campus of 8,000 acres, an ar-boretum to which every clime has liberally con-tributed, stands this magnificent memorial of acherished son. The buildings are conceived inthe style of mission architecture—low struc-tures connected by an arcade surrounding animmense inner court, with plain thick walls,arches and columns, built of buff sandstoneand roofed with red tiles. Richly endowed,this university is broadly and ambitiouslyplanned, and is open to both sexes in all de-partments. Hard by, at Menlo Park, is the Stanford horsebreeding and training establishment, where128. .^«^-^>^/i/^ hundreds of thoroughbreds are carefully tendedin paddock and stable and daily trained. Evenone who is not a lover of horses, if such a personexists, can not fail to find entertainment here,where daily every phase of equine training isexhibited from the kindergarten where toddlingcolts are taught the habit of the track to theopen course where famous racers are speeded. Perhaps there is not, in the whole of NorthernCalifornia, a town more attractively environedthan San Jose. It lies in the heart of the val-ley, protected by mountain-walls from everywandering asperity of land or sea, a clean, regu-larly platted city, reaching off through avenuesof pine and of eucalyptus, and through or-chards and vineyards, to pretty forest slopeswhere roads climb past rock, glen and rivuletto fair, commanding heights. The immediateneighborhood is the center of prune production,and every year exports great quantities ofberries, fruits and wines. The largest see
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