Stanford University, situated between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's driving instructing and research colleges. Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has been devoted to discovering answers for enormous difficulties and to get ready understudies for administration in a perplexing world.
The little town that was starting to develop close to the area took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a monster California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later turn into the college's image and centerpiece of its official seal.
Leland Stanford, who grew up and concentrated on law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, in the same way as other of his affluent counterparts, made his fortune in the railways. He was a pioneer of the Republican Party, legislative leader of California and later a U.S. representative. He and Jane had one child, who kicked the bucket of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was going in Italy. Leland Jr. was only 15. Inside of weeks of his passing, the Stanfords chose that, since they no more could do anything for their own particular youngster, "the offspring of California might be our kids." They …show more content…
While on the East Coast, they went to Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Johns Hopkins to look for counsel on beginning another college in California. (See note in regards to records of the Stanfords visit with Harvard President Charles W. Eliot.) Ultimately, they chose to build up two foundations in Leland Junior's name - the University and a historical center. From the start they settled on some untraditional decisions: the college would be coeducational, in a period when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were connected with a religious association; and avowedly functional, creating "refined and valuable
The little town that was starting to develop close to the area took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a monster California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later turn into the college's image and centerpiece of its official seal.
Leland Stanford, who grew up and concentrated on law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, in the same way as other of his affluent counterparts, made his fortune in the railways. He was a pioneer of the Republican Party, legislative leader of California and later a U.S. representative. He and Jane had one child, who kicked the bucket of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was going in Italy. Leland Jr. was only 15. Inside of weeks of his passing, the Stanfords chose that, since they no more could do anything for their own particular youngster, "the offspring of California might be our kids." They …show more content…
While on the East Coast, they went to Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Johns Hopkins to look for counsel on beginning another college in California. (See note in regards to records of the Stanfords visit with Harvard President Charles W. Eliot.) Ultimately, they chose to build up two foundations in Leland Junior's name - the University and a historical center. From the start they settled on some untraditional decisions: the college would be coeducational, in a period when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were connected with a religious association; and avowedly functional, creating "refined and valuable