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was the private venture of two young men, Holbrook 

 Blinn and Chester Bailey Fernald. The second 

 year it was taken over by the Student Body, and as 

 The Daily Palo Alto - - familiarly " The D.P.A" or 

 "Dippy" -has ever since been the chronicle of 

 college news. 



Both Blinn and Fernald afterward became conspicuous in 

 dramatic circles in London and New York, the first as an actor, 

 the second as a playwright. And Blinn has more than once 

 remarked that his determination to succeed was shaped by an 

 epigram of mine in a talk to the students, "The world turns 

 aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going." 



"The With the second year was born The Sequoia, then 



Sequoia ^ weekly literary journal. Looking over its early 

 pages, I find them remarkable for the skill and 

 ingenuity shown by some of the writers, especially 

 in lyrics and short stories. Several of these con- 

 tributors afterward became successful as newspaper 

 correspondents, college professors, or writers of short 

 stories. 



Notable among them were "Carolus Ager," Charles K. 

 Field, '95, now editor of Sunset; Will Irwin, '99, the sane and 

 accurate war correspondent; his brother Wallace, ex-'oo. dis- 

 tinguished for satirical verse and character sketches; Dane 

 Coolidge, '98, story-teller of the Southwest; Bristow Adams, 

 'oo, now of the forestry department of Cornell; William W. 

 Guth, '95, president of Goucher College, Baltimore; Edward 

 Maslin Hulme, '97, professor of History in the University of 

 Idaho; William J. Neidig, '96, and Sarah Comstock, '96, 

 writers of special articles and short stories; Isaac Russell, '04, 

 Thoreau Cronyn, '03, and John M. Oskison, '98, journalists 

 in Chicago and New York; and Walter M. Rose, '95, a superior 

 student of law and author of an important legal digest. 



Our humorous paper, The Chaparral, 1 launched 



1 See Chapter xvi, page 389. 



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