The Days of a Man 



1896 



gratitude 



from our waiting carriage, the boys dragged us 

 triumphantly up to the front of Roble Hall. 



During the evening, professors and students to- 

 gether waited upon Mrs. Stanford in her Campus 

 Mrs. Stan- home. There her quiet gratitude matched our 

 ford's exuberant joy, and an abundance of simple re- 

 freshments had been hastily gathered in from all 

 available neighboring sources. By morning, the 

 little local government post office, a temporary 

 wooden building, had blossomed forth in a coat of 

 cardinal red, much to its improvement; that artistic 

 service, I may add, was reputed to be the work of 

 a lad destined to become, twenty years later, presi- 

 dent of the institution. 



Herbert C. 

 Nash 



Among us all, I remember, no one rejoiced more than Mr. 

 Nash, a scholarly and courteous gentleman of English birth 

 from whose tribute to Mr. Stanford I quoted in earlier pages. 

 For a number of years young Leland's tutor, he remained in 

 the family after the boy's death as the Governor's private 

 secretary, and was still practically a member of the house- 

 hold. Upon Mr. Woodruff's resignation as librarian at the close 

 of this college year, Nash became his successor. In that posi- 

 tion his work was entirely satisfactory, for although without 

 technical training, he had excellent judgment and a wide 

 knowledge of books. His death in 1902 left a gap in the 

 university community. 



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