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BRIEF MENTION OF CERTAIN GRADUATES OF STANFORD 

 UNIVERSITY BETWEEN 1892 AND 1899 



I DO not feel satisfied to let this volume pass out of my 

 hands without some further notice of early students of 

 Stanford University. But to cite the many hundreds 

 who gayly came and sadly went would make a list of 

 unseemly length. I shall therefore limit reference to 

 some three score who finished their college work before 

 1900, at the same time including practically no one men- 

 tioned elsewhere in my life story. Yet it is still a* diffi- 

 cult task, particularly so because selections must be more 

 or less arbitrary and based to a large degree on continued 

 association during recent years. Nevertheless, my wife 

 comforts me with the thought that a woman rarely 

 gives a big party without forgetting to invite her dearest 

 friend or her nearest neighbor. 1 



Le Roy Abrams, '99, botanist, associate professor of Systematic Botany, 

 assistant and successor to Professor Dudley; Maxwell Adams, '95, professor 

 of Chemistry in the University of Nevada; Dr. George H. Ashley, '92, long 

 connected with the United States Geological Survey, now state geologist of 

 Pennsylvania; William S. Atkinson, '99, scientific illustrator for the depart- 

 ments of Zoology and Botany at Stanford; Arthur H. Barnhisel, '93, in busi- 

 ness in Tacoma; Frank G. Baum, '98, one of the leading electrical engineers 

 in the West, for a time assistant professor on the Stanford faculty; Louis S. 

 Beedy, '98, attorney in San Francisco; Henry M. Bland, '95, now professor 

 of English in the San Jose Normal School; Benjamin F. Bledsoe, '96, attorney, 

 now judge of the Federal Court in the southern district of California; Hans 

 F. Blichfeldt, '96, originally from Slesvig, a student of remarkable ability 

 in Mathematics, in which field he rose to occupy a professorship at Stanford. 



William D. Briggs, '96, called back to Stanford in 1906, now associate 

 professor in English; Susan B. Bristol, '97, for years appointment secretary 

 at Stanford, now in journalism in New York; Lyman V. W. Brown, '96, a 

 prominent orchardist of Riverside; James T. Burcham, '97, for some years 

 a member of the Stanford Law faculty, now an attorney at Spokane; Scott 

 Calhoun, '95, an attorney at Seattle; Bertha L. Chapman (Mrs. V. M. Cady), 



1 See also Chapter XVH, pages 405-413. 



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