ABSTRACT
In the early fall of 1909, Babe Bevans was back with her children in Chicago. Thorstein Veblen had meanwhile moved from Cedro to the Stanford campus in the fall of 1908, taking a room in a professor's house on Alvarado Street. The following spring he applied for a leave of absence for the academic year of 1909-1910—hopefully for two semesters, but at least for one. He was ambitious to study early civilizations in Europe as a background for his "Economic Factors in Civilization" course. Mrs. Sabine was a student of Veblen's at the University of Missouri, and, although she knew that some people at Stanford were not in agreement. Veblen had found a champion. His career had been damaged severely in the process, but no one could gainsay that he had gained an agreeable, ready-made family and a fiercely devoted, spirited, and valiant wife.
