. >> why is the library located here at the leland stanford university? >> i graduated from the university. after after that mrs. hoover had a house on the campus here while i journeyed all over the earth. i also was a trustee of the university and very naturally i was interested in the institution. >> i know you were born in hest branch, iowa. could you tell us how it is you got down here an attended leland stanford university? >> this uncle of mine was a country doctor with all of the fine attributes of the united states. i lived with him and his family parts of it for about seven years. during that time i got a job as an office boy. and on occasion a gentleman having some business with the firm came in and while he waited he talked with the office boy. he was inquiring what i wanted to do, so forth. he said, well, you ought to take up engineering. he was, himself, an engineer. we discussed it and he rather inspired my mind. soon i noticed that stanford university had announced the institution would be opened that autumn and the tuition would be free. t

ism why -- >> why is the library located here at the leland stanford university, mr. hoover? >> mr. henle, i graduated from this university. and after that, mr. -- mrs. hoover had a house on the campus here while i journeyed all over the earth. i was also a trustee of the university and very naturally i was interested in building up the institution. >> i know you were born in west branch iowa, and people generally know that after your mother and father died an uncle asked you to share his home in oregon. could you tell us how it happened then that you got down here and attended leland stanford university? >> this uncle of mine was a country doctor with all of the fine attributes of country doctors of the united states. i lived with him and his family, parts of it, for a matter of about seven years. and during that time i got a job at an office boy. and on one occasion, a gentleman having some business with the firm came in and while he waited he talked with the office boy, and he was inquiring what i wanted to do, so forth. and he said, well, you ought to take up engineering. and he