Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-06-24

Union. Stanford has 100 students
ana an endowment running far IN
into the millions. Berkely has 1900
students and is enormously rich.-
Tom played "outer" on the STAN
ford team in both his Junior and son-
Tor years. The first year the match
game was Il tie, but last wear the
score was 20 to o in favor of Stan.
ford. He is said to be unquestiona-
bly, the champion player of tho Pa
citic Coast. Everybody i'm the Uni
versity knows "HeT" Williams ot
sight. When his many friends in
Greenbrier welcome him homo carly
in July, they will greet not onlv a
distinguished graduate of Stanford
University, but a man who has
never met his equal in the athletic
field.
l might mention that he made n
trip to Los Angeles on his wheel,
and that tho city Of Los Angeles is
about 400 miles from here. Last
summer he was on hunt in tho
Olympic Mountains in Washington.
But L could not think of closing
this article without paying him per-
sonal tribute. | reached the Uni
versity at noon, and he left that
evening at 6 o'clock for Passadopa,
a handsome residence town near Los
Angeles. His plans were all made.
He was going home with a fellow
student that he liked-perhaps as
well as himself. a day or two be-
fore | had said goodbye to student
of mine whom 1 thought almost as
much of as myself; so l readily un-
derstood why these plans were un-
alterable. Those few hours together
we put in, however, to good advan-
tage. AS he was not expecting me
on the noon train, l experienced
some delay in finding him. He took
me right to his room at the homo of
MIR. G. G. Parkinson, the cashier of
the Palo Alto bank, who is also A
West Nirginian. He took me to his
boarding house, the toniest place in
town, and told me to board on his
uneXpired ticket till found a place
to suit me. He put me in charge of
an English lady, who, he said,
would introduce me to his special
friends in the faculty and among the
people of Palo Alto. This lady |
can describe we'll only to those who
[ have nice old maided and-one
who takes Il great interest in boys.
Through the agency Of this lady |
have met quite number of distin-
guished people. am introduced as
Toms legacy and meet with a warm
reception on his account. Before
had seen second sunset i'm this
place i had engaged myself TO live
in the house of professor who is
going to be absent for the summer.
This is feather in the cap of an ut
ter stranger, and is due TO Tom and
his kind friend. am really proud
to have been ushered into university
life by so distinguished a friend, and
never was prouder of West Vir.
ginia and of Greenbrier than when
entered Stanford University
West Virginia's reputation for schol.
arship, / find, stands just as high
here AS at any college i'm Virginia.
TO Il. NJ. Williams more than any,
one else is due this glorious record.
He is son of whom his State and
county may we'll be proud. 1t is
with pride that / tell here that we
were boys in the same county; that
have been entertained at his home
and that our fathers have been friends
for years.
l am here in the summer school OF
electricity and magnetism. Next
year want to devote to zoology and
botany. hope to keep our banner
in the very fore part, where it has
been placed by others.
B. Parkinson, the president of the
Palo Alto bank is West Virginian
He has ranged over Greenbrier as ,
Federal soldier. He was with Hun
ter when David Creigh was carried
away and hanged, but he SAYS tn,
execution was utterly unjustifiable
He told me he saw the huge mirror.
in the grand hotel at White Sulphu
Springs smashed under the butts o
Federal muskets just to hear tn,
glass smash.
But this is enough for the first
later on 1 may write up Stanfor,
University and the Santa Clara Val
ley.
, Sincerely your friend and county
man, II. a. LEWIS.
A CURIOUS CUsTOM.-A curiou
custom prevails in certain parts O
India, which may be called asymboli
marriage. In families where ther
are several daughters the younge