Produced by Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net STANFORD STORIES TALES OF A YOUNG UNIVERSITY BY CHARLES K. FIELD [CAROLUS AGER] AND WILL H. IRWIN _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1900 Copyright, 1900, by Doubleday, Page & Co. BLANCHARD PRESS, NEW YORK. * * * * * DEDICATION. "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." PREFATORY NOTE. 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. CONTENTS. PAGE A Midwinter Madness, 3 Pocahontas, Freshman, 29 His Uncle's Will, 55 The Initiation of Dromio, 77 The Substituted Fullback, 91 Two Pioneers and an Audience, 119 For the Sake of Argument, 135 An Alumni Dinner, 171 Boggs' Election Feed, 185 In the Dark Days, 207 Crossroads, 223 A Song Cycle and a Puncture, 249 One Commencement, 265 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAST THE LONELY REDWOOD TREE TO THE UNIVERSITY, _Frontispiece_ ... TOWARD THE LA HONDA REDWOODS, _Facing page_ 148 A STROLL IN THE MOONLIT QUAD, PLANNED TO INTEREST THE CROWD AT THE TUESDAY EVENING LECTURE, _Facing page_ 154 ... THEN THE LULL DURING CLASS, _Facing page_ 200 A MIDWINTER MADNESS. STANFORD STORIES. A Midwinter Madness.