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noun - United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
noun - a university in California
STANFORD - Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California. S...
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This university near Palo Alto, California was founded by a railroad magnate & named for his son |
Caught red-limbed drinking from a flask, the tree mascot for this school near Palo Alto was suspended |
This private college in Northern California has 20 libraries with some 8.5 million physical volumes |
Both John Elway & Jim Plunkett were NFL No. 1 draft choices from this university |
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Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic strength, wealth, proximity to Silicon Valley, and ranking as one of the world's top-ten universities.The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a U.S. Senator and former Governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. * Stanford University struggled financially after Leland Stanford's death in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would la |