Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur: "Unless we learn to boss our glands instead of allowing them to boss us, we shall inevitably commit suicide. . . . Your real job here at Stanford is to learn to run your glands with their various endocrines...
...young Butler planned to study law, go into politics himself. But Columbia's President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler was getting $3,500 as a Columbia professor...
This unusual display of psychological humility occurred during the Association's meeting last week at Stanford University and University of California. The psychologists snapped back to normal with a grandiose report from their Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (of which Dr. Allport is a member) on how to keep the U. S. out of war. Findings...
...Trustee Herbert Hoover of Stanford University testified before a California court that some of the university's $24,000,000 in seasoned bonds and first mortgages should be invested in common stocks. Burden of his testimony was what already worried many another custodian of trust funds: devaluation of the dollar and inflation of bank credit had cut the purchasing power of income from fixed-income investments; currency inflation (if it came) might reduce the real value of such trust funds to a trifle...
Because the late great Leland Stanford had wisely willed his trustees great latitude in investment, Herbert Hoover and friends got permission to revise their portfolio. Meanwhile, many another trustee, bound by strict fiduciary laws and without latitude to switch to common stocks, faced an immediate menace: New Deal fiscal policy has reduced interest rates so low that with every refinancing the dollar yield of securities gets closer to the vanishing point...