Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the university has dedicated itself to bolstering the humanities with additional funding. The Leland Stanford Junior Museum, with one of the largest Rodin collection in the world, was re-opened after 10 years of renovation early this year. And Stanford's "fuzzy" social science and humanities departments, especially history, political science, and economics are large, strong, and well-funded...
Finally, no one can discuss Stanford without mentioning athletics. Stanford is strong in high-profile sports such as basketball and powerhouse in sports such as tennis, swimming and cross country. To get their hands on coveted men's basketball season tickets this year, students camped out two weeks in advance outside Maples Pavilion. And we've got the Axe the trophy given to the winner of the annual football Big Game with Berkeley...
...Dick Vitale said when he body surfed the crowd this year, "It's all about Stanford, Baby!" It's true that the overwhelming number of students here believe they've made the right college choice. Stanford students tend to believe that the social climate here is a sweeter pill to swallow...
...think Stanford can give you everything. We don't have history and the culture of the city in our backyard. We definitely don't have the ivy, and, at this point, we don't have the feeling of an established legacy...
...stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his beloved forest was tempered by the realization that the industry was also his dad's employer. Not until his undergraduate days at Stanford in the '60s did he become a rabble rouser, and then his target was not pollution but war: he helped lead more than 1,000 students in a campus takeover of a weapons-research...