CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY. nierous private schools which offer the advantages of suburban and country life, with their thoroughly satisfactory standards and teaching staffs. So the only defect in the educational system is the buildings of the public schools, and this defect soon is to be remedied. The courses of study in the schools lead directly to the University of California, and to Leland Stanford, Jr.. University, the former at Berkeley, and the latter at Palo Alto. Both of these institutions are richly endowed, the latter with practically all the fortune of the late Senator Leland Stanford, and the former by numerous gifts from individuals, in addition to a grant from the Federal government and the State tax. Both are largely attended. The architecture at Stanford is impressive, and that at Berkeley is soon to be magnificent. Already these two homes of learning promise to take place beside the greatest St