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After their only son—who never attended Harvard—died at 15 of typhoid fever, former California Gov. Stanford famously remarked one morning to his wife, Jane: “The children of California shall be our children...
From the beginning, the liberal arts education offered by Stanford has been different from its peers in its conception—it was inaugurated in 1891 as a co-educational, nonsectarian university in an era when most schools were neither...
...Stanford is not steeped in history in the way that Harvard and Yale are—it celebrated its founding five years after Harvard’s 250th anniversary...
Edward Fiske, author of the annual Fiske Guide to Colleges, says fundamental differences between Stanford and Harvard manifest themselves in the architecture and campuses of these universities...
...think the point that I make about Stanford is that it is the first great American university,” he says...