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Stanford University

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    • Palo Alto, California, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: (650) 723-2300
  • Official Website: [1]
• History & Memorable Moments

Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid just before his 16th birthday. ^[1]

The story that a lady in "faded gingham" and a man in a "homespun threadbare suit" went to visit the president of Harvard about making a donation, were rebuffed, and then founded Stanford is untrue. ^[1]

Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm. ^[1]

The University's founding grant was written on November 11, 1885, and accepted by the first Board of Trustees on November 14. The cornerstone was laid on May 14, 1887, and the University officially opened on October 1, 1891, to 559 students and 15 faculty members, seven of whom hailed from Cornell University. At the opening of the school, there was no tuition for students, a program which lasted into the 1930's. Among the first class of students was a young future president Herbert Hoover, who would claim to be first student ever at Stanford, by virtue of having been the first person in the first class to sleep in the dormitory. ^[1]

The school was established as a coeducational institution although it maintained a cap on female enrollment for many years. This was not due to any anti-female sentiment but rather based on a concern of Jane Stanford, who worried that without such a cap, the school could become an all-female institution, which she did not feel would be an appropriate memorial for her son. ^[1]

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed parts of the Main Quad (including the original iteration of Memorial Church) as well as the gate that first marked the entrance of the school; rebuilding on a somewhat less grandiose scale began immediately. ^[1]

The official motto of Stanford University, selected by the Stanfords, is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Translated from the German, this quotation of Ulrich von Hutten means "The wind of freedom blows." At the time of the school's establishment, German had recently replaced Latin as the supraregional language of science and philosophy. ^[1]

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  • Barker, Colette (January 2001 - Present)
  • Gardiner, Kim (December 2001 - October 2014)
  • Gardner, Charles Moses (January 1982 - February 1982)
  • He, Qingfang (September 2002 - Present)
  • Lu, W (January 1996 - January 2000)
  • Sen Majumdar, Anis (October 1989 - August 1993)
  • Tsao, Jun-Yin (January 1983 - Present)
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