Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University

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NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1900
Copyright, 1900, by Doubleday, Page & Co.
BLANCHARD PRESS, NEW YORK.

PAST THE LONELY REDWOOD TREE TO THE UNIVERSITY
To the newest born of the Sisters, At the end of the race's march, In her quaint, old Spanish garment, Pillar and tile and arch; Awaiting the age that hallows, Her face to the coming morn— Whose scholars still walk in her cloisters, Whose martyrs are yet unborn.
We scatter down the four wide ways, Clasp hands and part, but keep The power of the golden days To lull our care asleep, And dream, while our new years we fill With sweetness from those four, That we are known and loved there still, Though we come back no more.
These are stories of the University as it was before the era of new buildings. While the attempt has been made to create, in character, incident and atmosphere, a picture of Stanford life, the stories, as stories, are fiction, with the exception of Pocahontas, Freshman, and Boggs' Election Feed, which were suggested by local occurrences, and One Commencement, which is mainly fact. The original draft of His Uncle's Will was printed in The Sequoia with the title The Fate of Freshman Hatch.
It may be necessary to add that, in the endeavor to present the actual life of the University, it has seemed quite inadvisable to edit the conversation of the characters from the standpoint of the English purist. Since, however, those readers who boggle over slang could hardly be much interested in the Undergraduate, it is sufficient merely to call attention to the point.