Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Noted that you referred to Stanford University as the "Cornell of the West" in your recent article about David Starr Jordan (TIME, March 17). I wish to take exception to that title. . . . Stanford resembles no institutions in this country or any other. It is far more advanced than many and so hopelessly outclasses Cornell that it is unfair to Stanford to be called a counterpart of that school. With due respect to Cornell graduates, there are few who can go to the far corners of the earth and be considered outstanding because of their college, and that...
Stanford, whose first president was Cornell's David Starr Jordan, was once proud to call itself "Cornell of the West...
...Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders. His mistress dismissed, his wife dead, his children grown up and married, Herries becomes more and more alone, meets red-headed Mira-bell Starr, outlaw child of the moors, and loses his heart for the first time. The rest of his story tells how he grows old, not gracefully but well...
...Egbert Starr Newbury, '32 of Belgrade. Montana, who prepared for Harvard at Worcester Academy, was chosen as class team manager. During his Senior year he will act as manager of the second University team...
...year before President Schurman began directing the affairs of Cornell, another teacher who now is a Grand Old Man- David Starr Jordan-became president of Leland Stanford Jr. University ("Cornell of the West"). Cornell-bred, a onetime member of its faculty, Stanford's Jordan varied his executive duties with an interest in simplified spelling, Peace, and fish. His naturalistic labors brought him the appointment (1908-10) of international fisheries commissioner for the U. S. and Canada. In 1916 Stanford made him President Emeritus...