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معلومة صغيرة بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في جامعات تسمي جامعات القمة ivy league , والطلبة الأغنياء أو المجتهدين جدا فقط هم اللي بيقدروا يلتحقوا بالجامعات دي
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A lady in gingham dress and her husband who was dressed in homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walked timidly without an appointment to the president of Harvard outer offices.
the secretary could tell immediately that those backwoods,country hicks had no business at Harvard and had no right to be in Cambridge
she frowned. "we want to see the President" the man said softly
"he'll be busy all day"she snapped
"we'll wait"the lady said
the secretary ignored them hoping they'd be discouraged and go away, but they didn't.
the secretary grew frustrated and decided to disturb the president which she hates to do.
"maybe if you could just see them for a few minutes they will leave" the secretary suggested. and he sighed in exasperation and nodded. someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office. the president,stern face with dignity, met the couple. the lady said" we had a son who attended Harvard for one year. he loved Harvard, he was happy here. but year ago he was accidentally killed. my husband and i would like to erect a memorial for him. somewhere on campus"
the president wasn't touched, he was shocked."lady" he said gruffly"we can't erect a statue for every student who had been here and died. if we did this ,this place would look like a cemetery"
"oh,no" the lady explained quickly" we don't want to erect a statue, we thought we could give a building to Harvard"
the president rolled his eyes. he looked at the gingham dress and the homespun suit and exclaimed"a building!! do you have any earthy idea how much a building costs? we have over seven and half million dollars in the physical plant at Harvard"
the woman was silent and the president was pleased he could get red of them now . the woman turned to her husband and said quitly"is that all it costs to start a university? why don't we just start our own?" and her husband nodded.
the president face wilted in cofusion an bewilderment. and mr and mrs liland stanford walked away, traveled to alto ,California where they established the university that bears their name ,a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared a bout.
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