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...immediate question before the trustees is whether Stanford's absentee president, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. U. S. Secretary of the Interior, may continue to stay away during the remainder of President Herbert Hoover's term without forfeiting his Palo Alto position. The answer to that question will determine when Stanford will do the thing so long ago proposed by Dr. Jordan, planned and already begun by Dr. Wilbur: Abolish freshman and sophomore years, become a graduate-grade university like Johns Hopkins, now unique...
Should Secretary Wilbur return to Palo Alto when his leave of absence expires next September, this plan may be completed within three years. Otherwise it is likely to remain in abeyance until he returns, as stipulated by the trustees when he left. Meanwhile, Stanford buzzes secretly but excitedly, torn by fierce controversy. The tall, once robust chancellor hears on his death bed the names of the chief protagonists?Herbert Hoover, Secretary Wilbur, Acting President Robert Eckles Swain?all of them his students once. If he was sorry not to live to see them make Stanford what he had dreamed...
...died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth?some $30.000,000?would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall...
...Grace, children of Hoover Secretary Newton. Peggy Ann's father was there too, plump-cheeked and heavier, out for his first fun since his convalescence at Asheville. Because they were "circus-minded" Mrs. Hoover also took along her White House guests, Mrs. Stark McMullin of Palo Alto and Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...Dartmouth-Stanford game was scheduled to be played in the Harvard Stadium on November 28 of this year over two years ago this Spring when the Indians and the West Coast college were making up their schedules. Dartmouth went out to Palo Alto this past season and it was understood that the Cardinals would come to Cambridge the following year. Mayor Curley's statement forbidding the game was made on April 10 last when he said that he thought that holding the game here was interfering with the B. C.-H. C. tilt...