Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard leads the race and, save for Yale, she has not even a respectable competitor. Among the 2,000 distinguished persons of the younger generation, Harvard has graduated almost as many as Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined; almost as many as Wisconsin, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and California combined. Harvard and Yale together have graduated 24 more of these distinguished persons than Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined. The supremacy of these institutions, and of Harvard in particular, is little short of astounding...
...David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford University: "I do not believe that the universities have any normal relations to the military side of national defence beyond their general obligation to ascertain and make known the truth." --Boston Advertiser...
...financial and Athletic success when held in Cambridge. Six of the present standing records have been made on the Stadium track, including the marks chalked up by Meredith in the 440 and 880 last May, and a new record in the 120-yard hurdles by Murray of Lealand Stanford. Pennsylvania, which is contending against the University for the privilege of holding the meet, is running the indoor games of the Association on Saturday night. In view of this the University will probably be allowed the honor of holding the outdoor meet...
Actual training has begun among the oarsmen of the larger colleges, East and West. Official rowing is now going on at Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Syracuse, Leland Stanford Jr., and California., and will start soon at Yale, Pennsylvania and the University. One of the great questions of the coming season is whether Syracuse will be invited to participate in the annual Poughkeepsie regatta and perhaps the greatest change in the situation since last year is the practical retirement of Charles E. Courtney as active coach at Cornell...
There is a strong probability that whether or not Syracuse is included as one of Poughkeepsie participants next June there will be at least four eights entered. All of the three large Western universities, California, Leland Stanford, Jr., and Washington, have signified their willingness to enter the Eastern classic if they succeed in winning the Western championship. Leland Stanford, Jr., took second place in the 1915 regatta, and Washington made a good showing on the Hudson a few years before...