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| A middle-aged woman in an old dress stepped hesitantly without an appointment into the president of Harvard University's outer office. The secretary could immediately _1_ that such a hick(乡下人) had no 2 at Harvard. "I want to see the president", she said softly. "He'll be_3_ all day," the secretary snapped. "I'll wait, " the woman replied. For hours, the secretary _4_her, hoping that she would finally become _5 and go away. She didn't. And the secretary finally had to disturb the president. The president _6_ appeared toward her. The woman told him, "I had a son that _7_ Harvard for one year but was accidentally killed. And I would like to put up a _8 for him, somewhere on campus". The president wasn't 9 but annoyed. "Madam," he said, "We can't put up a _10_ for every person who attended Harvard and _11_. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery(墓地)". "Oh, no," the woman explained 12 ," I don't want to erect a statue. I would like to give a building to Harvard." 13 at the old dress, the president _14 , "A building! Do you have any 15 idea how much a building costs? We have over eight million dollars in the physical(物质的) costs at Harvard". For a moment the woman was _16_. The president was pleased. He could get rid of her now. "Is that all it costs to start a _17_?" and then the woman asked quietly._18_ that Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where she _19_ the university that bears her _20_, a memorial to her son that Harvard no longer cared about. | ||||
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