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Word: stanford (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students while the Business School ranks second with 1011 students. Princeton sent the largest contingent to the Law School supplying 102 and Dartmouth is second on the list with 89 representatives. Of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dartmouth sent the greatest number, 29, while Stanford follows next with 22. Two hundred and four colleges and universities are represented in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 208 colleges are represented in the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGURES SHOW UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT HAS INCREASED | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Visalia, Cal., Wayne Switzer, county surveyor, bet $2 on the Leland Stanford football team against Southern California with one Alden Jones. When he lost, Better Switzer paid Better Jones a piece of flypaper with 200 pennies stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...head of all is a most remarkable superwoman, Miss Helen Ella True, de jure Secretary to the President, but de facto President of Stanford in the absence of Dr. Wilbur. Her chief qualities: imperturbability and omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...graduate of a man-staffed Eastern college, visiting Stanford for the first time, its efficient woman-staffed administration seemed to me to be TiME-worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Glenn Warner's Cardinals hit the stride that made them look like champions early in the season. They used a pretty new lateral pass spun out of a cross-buck in which five men handled the ball. Substitute Moffatt and Halfback Frentrup did most of Stanford's scoring. Unexpectedly defensive, California's Lorn kept punting out of danger. He passed to Thornton for one touchdown but needed more than that. Stanford 21, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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