ang could hardly
be much interested in the Undergraduate, it is sufficient merely to call
attention to the point.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
A Midwinter Madness, 3

Pocahontas, Freshman, 29

His Uncle's Will, 55

The Initiation of Dromio, 77

The Substituted Fullback, 91

Two Pioneers and an Audience, 119

For the Sake of Argument, 135

An Alumni Dinner, 171

Boggs' Election Feed, 185

In the Dark Days, 207

Crossroads, 223

A Song Cycle and a Puncture, 249

One Commencement, 265

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAST THE LONELY REDWOOD TREE TO THE UNIVERSITY, _Frontispiece_

... TOWARD THE LA HONDA REDWOODS, _Facing page_ 148

A STROLL IN THE MOONLIT QUAD, PLANNED TO INTEREST THE CROWD
AT THE TUESDAY EVENING LECTURE, _Facing page_ 154

... THEN THE LULL DURING CLASS, _Facing page_ 200

A MIDWINTER MADNESS.

STANFORD STORIES.

A Midwinter Madness.

Genius has been defined as a capacity for taking pains.

When a college man's good fairy makes her first call at his cradle, she
may bestow upon him the football instinct, with muscles to match; no
fairy could do more. But if she bumps up against Heredity, and is
powerless to give him the supreme gift, she may compensate for it in a
degree by leaving the kind of larynx and tympanum used in the Glee Club.
Failing this, she may render next best service by throwing a mandolin in
his way and bewitching his parents into paying for lessons. Some twenty
years later, behind the enchanted scenes of a specially hired theater,
or on the polished floor of society's inner temple, he may think of the
fairy kindly.

Doubtless, all theatrical life means drudgery, but the Christmas tour of
the Glee and Mandolin clubs is drudgery amidst bowers of roses. The
hard-working professional would call it play; yet, even in this gilded
stage-life, there is the common affliction of being forced to appear at
every concert, and in places you don't care about--unless, of course,
you happen to be seriously ill.

The Clubs had just done an abbreviated stunt for the Los Angeles High
School the afternoon before Christmas. The occasion was a big ad., but
they ripped matters