Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars, went newsgatherers, cameramen, President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University and several professors; Allan Hoover (youngest son); Assistant U. S. Attorney-General William J.("Wild Bill") Donovan; Representative John John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut; George Akerson (secretary) ; also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse the Nominee...
Cornell University has given only two honorary degrees in its entire history-to Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, and to David Starr Jordan, now president emeritus of Stanford University. State universities, as a rule, are chary of granting honorary degrees. For example, the University of Minnesota has honored only its president emeritus, William Watts Folwell...
Looming over the 9,000-acre campus of Leland Stanford Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification...
...Stanford University, of which Alumnus Hoover has been a guiding force since his graduation in 1895, was very much astir for the impending event. Committees of the faculty an of Palo Alto's citizens met at the home of Professor Theodore Jesse Hoover, the hero's elder brother and valued adviser, to plan their part in the proceedings They decided to hold the ceremony in Stanford's roomy football stadium, where 90,000 persons can look on. They prepared to throw some of the campus fraternity houses open to visiting newsgatherers. Distinguished guests were to be accommodated...
...account of Stanford's Hoover reception would be complete, however, if it represented the university's attitude as one of unalloyed satisfaction with Herbert Hoover. Like any other social microcosm, the Stanford community (faculty, students, trustees, alumni) has its discontented minority-men who will never agree that all Hoover has done for Stanford has been for the best. They complain, chiefly, that under the Hoover influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute...