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Illustrations The Quad - Frontispiece The Quad looking East, page 19 Freshman-[Sophmore] Rush 26 Encina Hall 44 The Quad looking West, 65 Stanford Rooters and Partisans 87 The Arboretum 105 The Quad and 95 Oak, 119
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August 25th., 1907, Sunday.
I arrived from Chicago late last night and went to the hotel. This morning I took possession of my room at the hall, which I engaged before going East last summer. All my friends had roommates and so I engaged a single room rather than run the risk of having an undesirable fellow for a "wife."
The room looked rather cheerless at first, with an iron bed in one corner, a bureau in another, the study-table standing forbiddingly in the center of the room, and the dressing table against the wall. Now an Indian blanket on the bed, some photo-
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graphs on the table; flags, one of Stanford and the other of Harvard, crossed over the dressing table, and some pictures on the wall make it look quite homelike. A steamer rug has transformed my trunk into a comfortable, but rather hard window seat.
I expect to enjoy my life at the hall. Living in town as I did during my first two years, I missed a large part of the college life. Now I hope to get to know some more of the fellows.
As I was sitting on the steps after supper smoking my evening pipe Mr. Hough of the sophmore [sophomore] class came and sat down beside me. We talked over the courses
