The Days of a Man 1893 



(1895) of fraud and forgery, and sent to the State 

 Penitentiary at Santa Fe. But the man has some- 

 thing of the poet in him, and his work bore the stamp 

 of unmistakable genius. 



During the first decade of Stanford University, 

 guests Easterners still looked upon California as very 

 remote. Nevertheless, other welcome visitors fol- 

 lowed Mr. White, among the earliest of them Presi- 

 dent Eliot of Harvard, serene, clear-eyed, and 

 fearless, one of the few university executives able 

 to look past the next generation into the long future. 

 John Fiske, philosopher and historian, charmed us 

 by his broad views of life and human affairs, as 

 well as by his friendly interest in the work of the 

 infant institution. And Prince Serge Wolkonsky of 

 St. Petersburg, a brilliant historical scholar, twice 

 addressed the university audience on subjects con- 

 nected with his American experiences. 



James Whitcomb Riley, my old friend, read to us in 

 delicious fashion a number of his Hoosier poems, thus 

 bringing down upon himself the wrath of Ambrose 

 Bierce. 1 Frederick Warde. the Shakespearian actor, 

 "Ian Maclaren," and Ernest Thompson Seton also 

 spoke, each in his own tongue. 



Miss Eleanor Calhoun, a talented young woman 

 of unusual beauty, grandniece of the famous politi- 

 cal leader, delighted us with a reading in French 

 from certain roles she had played in Paris at the 

 Comedie jranqalse. Born and bred in the Tehachapi, 

 a picturesque though barren mountain upland of 



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