{"product_id":"stanford-stories-tales-of-a-young-university-gb-24735","title":"Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanford Stories: Tales of a Young University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of the University as it was before the era of new\r\nbuildings. While the attempt has been made to create, in character,\r\nincident and atmosphere, a picture of Stanford life, the stories, as\r\nstories, are fiction, with the exception of \"Pocahontas, Freshman,\" and\r\n\"Boggs' Election Feed,\" which were suggested by local occurrences, and\r\n\"One Commencement,\" which is mainly fact. The original draft of \"His\r\nUncle's Will\" was printed in The Sequoia with the title \"The Fate of\r\nFreshman Hatch.\"\nIt may be necessary to add that, in the endeavor to present the actual\r\nlife of the University, it has seemed quite inadvisable to edit the\r\nconversation of the characters from the standpoint of the English\r\npurist. Since, however, those readers who boggle over slang could hardly\r\nbe much interested in the Undergraduate, it is sufficient merely to call\r\nattention to the point.\nWhen a college man's good fairy makes her first call at his cradle, she\r\nmay bestow upon him the football instinct, with muscles to match; no\r\nfairy could do more. But if she bumps up against Heredity, and is\r\npowerless to give him the supreme gift, she may compensate for it in a\r\ndegree by leaving the kind of larynx and tympanum used in the Glee Club.\r\nFailing this, she may render next best service by throwing a mandolin in\r\nhis way and bewitching his parents into paying for lessons. Some twenty\r\nyears later, behind the enchanted scenes of a specially hired theater,\r\nor on the polished floor of society's inner temple, he may think of the\r\nfairy kindly.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 24735 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 2, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Irwin, Will, 1873-1948 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg),1873- \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218254921885,"sku":"gb-24735-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/24735.jpg?v=1671473296","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/stanford-stories-tales-of-a-young-university-gb-24735","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}