Helen, I reread my post after sending it...and realized that my opening statement could have lead to confusion...blame it on 4 am writing!.....The story Nancy credited to M. Forbes re: Harvard rejection is not a true story. The story that I posted re: Leland Stanford Jr.'s death in Italy at age 15 is correct........check the Stanford University web page re: history. I was employed by the Development Office (Stanford fund raising) for five years and we recited the history of Stanford's founding many times during the Centennial Campaign in the late 1980's. Rita Weeks 54/9