Word: altos
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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David Starr Jordan, President of the Indiana State University, has accepted the presidency of the Stanford University, at Palo Alto, Cal. This means the loss to Indiana of her most distinguished educator. The salary attached to Mr. Jordan's new position is $10,000 with a residence. The university over which he is to preside will start, says Senator Stanford, with the kindergarten, and end with post-graduates from the highest course possible...
...buildings for the new Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building...