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Stanford University was founded in 1885 by California senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, “to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization.”
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Stanford opened its doors on Oct. 1, 1891, with some 555...
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Stanford University was founded in the late 19th century by Leland and Jane Lathrop Stanford, in honor of their late son: Leland Stanford Jr. After Leland's death a lawsuit was pursued against his estate, and alongside the Panic of 1893 put Standford's continued existence in jeopardy.
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They decided to create a university, one that, from the outset, was untraditional: coeducational in a time when most private universities were all-male; nondenominational when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing cultured and useful citizens when most were concerned only with the former. The Founding...
The Stanfords engaged landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the campus. Their collaboration with Olmsted and the architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge resulted in California Mission-inspired buildings of local sandstone with red-tiled roofs, surrounding a cloistered quadrangle with Memorial Church as its focus. The rectang...
Stanford opened its doors on Oct. 1, 1891, with some 555 men and women students enrolled in the first year. Stanfords first president, David Starr Jordan, said to the Pioneer Class: It is for us as teachers and students in the universitys first year to lay the foundations of a school which may last as long as human civilizationIt is hallowed by no ...
Das Motto der Universität, das die Siegel und alle Andenken der Hochschule ziert, ist in deutscher Sprache verfasst: Die Luft der Freiheit weht. Der Satz geht auf den deutschen Humanisten Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523) zurück und wurde von David Starr Jordan, dem ersten Präsidenten der Stanford University, eingeführt.
Vor 6 Tagen · The university was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane (née Lathrop), and was dedicated to their deceased only child, Leland, Jr.; it opened in 1891. The university campus largely occupies Stanford’s former Palo Alto farm.
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1861. Sept. 4. Leland Stanford elected governor of California. 1868. May 14. Leland Stanford Jr. born. 1869. May 10. Leland Stanford drives Gold Spike at Promontory, Utah, for the first transcontinental railroad.
Where Stanford began. Leland Stanford's Arboretum featured both native and imported trees. Stanford University Archives. The Mausoleum is the resting place of the Stanford family. The crypt is opened for floral tributes once a year, for Founders Day. Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service.
