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The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 to 555 students. On the university's opening day, Founding President David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: " [Stanford] is hallowed by no traditions; it is hampered by none. Its finger posts all point forward." [1]
Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, dedicated to the memory of Leland Stanford Jr., their only child. The institution opened in 1891 on Stanford's previous Palo Alto farm. The Stanfords modeled their university after the great Eastern universities, specifically Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1st President of Stanford University; In office 1891 () –1913 () Preceded by: Office established: Succeeded by: John C. Branner: 7th President of Indiana University; In office 1884 () –1891 () Preceded by: Lemuel Moss: Succeeded by: John Merle Coulter: Personal details; Born January 19, 1851 Wyoming County, New York, U.S. Died
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891), along with her husband, Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in 1884. After her husband's death in 1893, she ...
Width. 57 ft (17 m) Height. 73.5 ft (22.4 m) Span. 30 ft (9.1 m) The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [2] it commemorates the centennial of George ...
The school of engineering was established in 1925, when Stanford organized the previously independent academic departments into a school. The original departments in the school were: Civil engineering, one of the original university departments (1891), later to become civil and environmental engineering. Electrical engineering, taught as a ...
Microeconomics. Information at IDEAS / RePEc. Jonathan David Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist and academic. He is currently the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [1] On April 4, 2024, the Stanford University Board of Trustees announced Levin would become Stanford's 13th ...
The Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame was established on December 21, 1954. Envisioned by Walt Gamage, sports editor of the now-defunct Palo Alto Times, the first class of inductees consisted of 34 Stanford sports greats. New members are inducted annually and are recognized during halftime of a home Stanford football game.