ABSTRACT
Thorstein Veblen had settled into teaching at Stanford. At Stanford, Veblen mainly taught undergraduates, and he was too subtle for many of them. While at Stanford, however, he performed amazing feats of strength. Professor A. J. Newman tells of his climbing a tree to cut off an upper limb, when two or three of his students thought it too difficult and dangerous a job to tackle. Something had inspired him and fired him with new and youthful energy. From 1906 on there seems to have been no other woman in Veblen's life except Babe Bevans, and, according to Becky Veblen Meyers, there was no other woman who was in a close relationship with her stepfather until he died. Babe's transcript at the University of California at Berkeley shows that although she was enrolled in five courses in economics, and one in physiology, in the spring semester, 1908, she received no grades at all. Presumably she went home to Chicago.
