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Tell Papa to mail me $5 so that I may receive it Tuesday afternoon. I can borrow or beg until then.

P.S. I am in dire straits! If not given assistance at once I shall be under the painful necessity of begging for a "hand-out" and tramping the ties back to Frisco. Money almost gone! Send $5 at once!

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Stanford, May 21, 1899.

My Dear Mother:

The last time you heard from me I was a "barbarian," or, as it is abbrevated, a "barb." A "barb." you must know, is one who is not a member of a Fraternity. Last Friday night between the hours of 8 and 9 I became a Greek. Our Fraternity was installed at Stanford by Mr. no, I mean, Brother Maytham, my friend from Cornell, and Brother Stevenson of San Francisco. Friday was the last school-day of the college year. At 12:15 Friday, school closed and every student in college who passed his final exams. stepped up a peg and entered the class above. By 12:15 that night Beta Zeta Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity had entered Stanford University and five "barbs" were ushered