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2. The Hall of Fame — Odd omissions — Civic 

 Forum Medal — Medal of Honor 



3. Camping in Kings River Canyon — An irrep- 

 arable loss — Relics of antiquity — The North 

 Palisade — " Yosemites" — University of Cali- 

 fornia Peak — Ouzel Basin — Stanford Univer- 

 sity Peak — Breaking waves of granite — Alps 

 and Sierras contrasted 



4. Oom Paul's obstinacy — Britain's moral re- 

 sponsibility — Imperial expansion — The Kai- 

 ser's telegram — A gross lapse — Why free- 

 dom matters — Mob and herd instincts — 

 Campbell-Bannerman — Smuts 



5. Inauguration of Benjamin Ide Wheeler — "Eat- 

 ing one's way through" — President Barrows 



Appendixes: 



A. Colonial Genealogy 665 



B. Inaugural Address, Stanford University, Octo- 



ber I, 1891 688 



C. Extracts from Certain Personal Letters of 



Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford 691 



D. From "Lest We Forget" 695 



E. Appeal of the Anti-Imperialist League, 1899. . . . 699 



F. How Barbara Came to Escondite 701 



G. Brief Mention of Certain Graduates of Stanford 



University between 1892 and 1899 707 



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