For one year while a student at Stanford University, Robert Duffus, his brother, and for a time his ailing father, lived with Thorstein Veblen in his cottage, called "Cedro" not far from the campus. This autobiogaphical fragment nostalgically and sensitively describes that idyllic year and explains by implication the effects upon Duffus's thinking of his association with Veblen. "A fine study of a cynical philospher and his reasonaby adulating disciple." Saturday Review of Literature
