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Stanford, Feb. 5, 1899.

My dear mother:

A University of California man sits opposite me reading the paper. He is an enthusiastic collegian. He is revelling in Stanford sunshine, and is the recipient of much congratulation. He takes it all proudly and self-composedly, and then proceeds to tell the gathered Stanfordites how "we" did it ("we" means U.C.). The man is doing all the strutting you probably know by reputation if not by name. Arthur Perry his is [cognomen?]!

Well may he strut! Berkeley has bested us again, and again Stanford objects and declares that if U.C. won it was not by virtue of the merits of the individual who got the medal. We should not have objected if Martin of U.C. had won the decision but we do emphatically kick against Warner. Any one of our men was as good as he. And all