Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-12-01
FINE DESCRIPTIVE POWERS.
A Splendid Account of the Berke-
ley Stanford Game.

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are enabled to publish a letter re-
GENTLY received by this lady from
a nephew she has who is attend
ing Stanford University. The
letter is written in entertaining
vein and the writer shows him
self to be a keen observer, as the
following will prove:
I was hale delighted and sur
Iprised to receive your welcome
letter, surprised in that s'you
can't a%lwaystell what you least ex-
|pect the most" Imagine the
exultation of one who has not
seen his ma for three months,
at receiving such a letter!
Bnt it's such a great place
down here that all feelings of
inconsistencies are dismissed with
out any trouble. I suppose the
folks have told you the contents
of some of my letters-how we'll
Pm getting along, what a fine
college Stanford is, and its beau
tiful surroundings. 1 guess 1
have made no mistake in my
selection Of a college. The
buildings and the grounds are
something magnificent and I
have heard that $50, 900, 900 has
been spent OH the University.
Take anyone of the large build
|ings and its finer than the Port
Hand City Hall or Custom House.
All the buildings are of rough
yellow sand stone with red tile
roofing. The memorial church
finished throughout with mosaic
is the finest church west of the
Atlantic States.
The place where I live, Encina
Hall for boys, is of stone. four
stories high, and 900 feet long,
and contains $50 rooms. 1t has
a club ronm, with billiards and
''1pool, a piano, and reading table;
alsoa finely equipped gymnasium.
With the endowment which it
now has ($44, 900, ooo) Stanford
J bids fair to rival any university
in the world.
!, The weather down here is
. something remarkable. This
morning I witnessed my first
ICalitornia rain. This shower
seemed to be the only thing that
!. drew a line between the Seasons,
: for ever since I came down it has
flbeen the same monotonus sum-
mer, clear skies and a hot sun
Idav after day, until it seemed
!; almost impossible that it could
, be raining up north. We are
: still having strawberries and rasp-
, berries fresh from the garden and
something else which seems good
. to me-fresh figs. =
This college life is certainly an
eventful one. I never saw en-
t thusiasm run so high. Boys
' that come here from Yale and
! Harvard say that the college
!. spirit of the eastern universities
y cannot compare with that OF
stamford. Saturday, Nov. II.
was certainly an event in my
career. On that date the annual
9 football game between Stanford
o land Berkeley was played, and
this is the biggest athletic event
of the Pacific coast. The detail:
of the game were nothing a:
% compared with the roofing of the
n students and the admirers of the
g two colleges. The game wa:
a1played on Stanford's new field OF
u the campus just in front of En-
. Gina Hall. The field seats 1906
and every place was taken. TIL
patrons were about equally di
r; vided, one side Of the field beln|
Y a varigated mass of blue and gol'
IT, while The other side was a mas
10 of cardinal, Stanford's color
10 Each college has a trained root
20 ling section of 500 students. Fo
stamford every rooter wore
red hat andhad a red megaphone
On Then in middle of the section
IA white S6tty feet high was forme
81 by some of the fellows putting o
" white hats and caps. At tn
bottom of the section was th
is IStanford band where the mus
ed was played. The whole 300 roo
ers waved their megaphons
w. back and forth keeping time an
n making one glaring sea or ca
ofldinal. Then when the tea
no came on the field each fello