Re: [Desi Masala] Judging people by appearance! - A good read

I regretfully say that this is a fiction and not the truth.

Proof: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/stanford.htm

Extract:

The Truth:  According
to Stanford University, this eRumor is not true.  Leland Stanford
was once governor of California and in 1876, he bought the first of
what would become more than 8,000 acres of land on the San Francisco
peninsula.  Leland and Jane Stanford had one son, Leland, Jr.,
but he never attended Harvard.  He died at the age of 15 on a
family trip to Italy, but from typhoid fever, not from an
accident.  Within a few hours of his son's death, Stanford said
to his wife, "The children of California shall be our
children."  That was the beginning of Stanford University,
according to the official account.
 

--- On Wed, 2/28/07, sonali@THERMAXINDIA.COM <sonali@THERMAXINDIA.COM> wrote:

From: sonali@THERMAXINDIA.COM <sonali@THERMAXINDIA.COM>
Subject: [Desi Masala] Judging people by appearance! - A good read
To:
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 11:18 PM

LOOKS ARE DECEPTIVE

 Judging People by Appearance!

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun

threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly

without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer

office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had

no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge.

"We'd like to see the president," the man said softly.

"He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped.

"We'll wait," the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally

become discouraged and go away.

They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to

disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave," she said to him!

He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously

didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses

and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him, "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year.

He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was

accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to

him, somewhere on campus."

The president wasn't touched. He was shocked.

"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who

attended Harvard and died.. If we did, this place would look like a

cemetery."

"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We

thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun

suit, and then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how

much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the

physical buildings here at Harvard."

For a moment the lady was silent.

The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to

start a university? Why don't we just start our own?"

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and

bewilderment.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo

Alto, California where they established the university that bears their

name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared

about.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who

they think can do nothing for them.

A TRUE STORY by Malcolm Forbes

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