Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stanford University, lately founded by Senator Stanford of California, and named after his son, Leland Stanford, jr., is now in process of construction. The amount of the donation is $20,000,000. The founder intends to establish a university town in connection with the university proper, the town to be restricted to the use of members of the university...
...planned forest of several acres which will serve as a model to planters on the Pacific coast. The arboretum will doubtless become to the university and to the Pacific slope what the Arnold Arboretum here in Boston is to be to Harvard University and the northern Atlantic slope. Senator Stanford has decided to devote to the arboretum as much space as is needed to contain every tree that can be made to grow in that climate with the aid of irrigation. The trees are to be planted in open order, and arranged with siestas and views, so that the place...
Foundations for six large buildings for Stanford University, Cal., have been completed...
Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., has conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Senator Leland Stanford...
...Leland Stanford, Jr., University, which is to be to the Pacific Coast what Harvard and Yale are to the East, is rapidly nearing completion. The site of the University is a spot in the foot-hills of the Coast Range Mountains about thirty miles south of San Francisco. The grounds are several miles in extent and slightly hilly. The general plan of the new institution is a hollow oblong six hundred feet long and two hundred and fifty feet wide, leaving a quadrangle within. Around the quaprangle connecting the buildings is an arcade which will be eighteen feet high...