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between them and their fellow lodgers, the more so 

 as the faculty was then made up of men under forty 

 years of age. And it was quite often said that the 

 only way to tell an upper classman from a professor 

 was that the students were the older! Once when 

 two youths met on a tramp in the hills, one became "" ' 

 somewhat expansive in regard to his own exploits. 

 Finally, surveying his companion, he inquired: 

 "Frosh?" "No, Prof." "Oh, Lordy!" said the 

 dismayed freshman. 



As a matter of fact, some of the "boys," being students 

 over thirty, were older than several of the pro- ^ aiur 

 fessors. Indeed, the average freshman was twenty 

 to twenty-one years of age and thus more mature 

 than is the case in Eastern colleges. For this there 

 were two main causes: first, the limited number of 

 high schools then on the Pacific slope; and second, 

 the fact that a large percentage of our men had been 

 obliged to interrupt their college courses to earn 

 money. With the very rapid expansion of the 

 educational system in the far western states the 

 one cause no longer operates. To a large extent 

 the other still holds. 



Students at the University of California humor- 

 ously spoke of our men as "kidlets" or as "the 

 boys from Dr. Jordan's school." In the first inter- The first 

 collegiate clash, a football game in November, the f otbdl 

 "kidlet" team was victorious by a score of 14 to g 

 10. After that, athletics being the main test of 

 relative vigor in the minds of many, Stanford 

 University was received on more or less equal 

 fellowship by "Berkeley." 



On the I4th of May, 1892, the anniversary of 

 the birthday of Leland Stanford Junior, the entire 



