With his mother's death in 1890 the not-yet-nine-year-old Young moved into the Como home of his granduncle Hugh McGehee, where he lived until 1895, when his father married Lydia Lewis Walton, reunited his family, and moved to Oxford. There, the following year, fourteen-year-old Stark enrolled as a special student at the University of Mississippi, from which he graduated with honors in 1901. His education there, he insisted, "consisted not so much in what is usually called education and informed studies" as it did in personalities and the general principles that were accepted by his instructors, a good many of whom were men who "had come off penniless from the Civil War but were old school gentlemen." The greatest part of his undergraduate education, then, Young claims, was the ability "to recognize in a man the fine flower of the spirit."
His University of Mississippi credentials gained him entrance to graduate school at Columbia University, where he completed a master's degree in English in 1902.
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