A small town called Palo Alto began to appear near this land [1]. The name of the town was taken from Palo Alto (Spanish, meaning "tall tree"), a tall tree that grew behind the huge California redwood on the Cueto River in San Francisco [2]. This tree is still there, and later became the symbol of Stanford University and the central pattern of the official seal of the school [3].
Leland Stanford grew up in new york, studied law and moved to the west after the gold rush. Like many rich people of his generation, he made a fortune by investing in railways. He was the leader of the party, the governor of California, and later became a US senator. He had a son with Jane [4], but the child died of typhoid fever during a family trip to Italy in 1884. At that time, little Leland was only 15 years old. In the weeks after the child died, the Stanford couple felt that there was nothing they could do for the child, so they decided to treat the children in California as their own children [5]. Soon, the couple began to look for a lasting way to commemorate their beloved son.
The Stanford couple considered several ways-universities, technical schools or museums. During their stay on the East Coast, the couple visited Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University, seeking suggestions for establishing a brand-new university in California (please refer to the Stanford couple's visit to Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University [6]). Finally, they decided to set up two institutions-a university and a museum, and named them after Leland Jr. From the beginning, the couple made an unusual decision [7]: universities will recruit both boys and girls, although many universities only accepted men at that time; There were no sects, and most of the schools at that time were related to religious organizations; There is also advocating practice and cultivating "useful and literate citizens".
189 1 year 10/day. After six years of planning and construction, Stanford University officially opened its doors to foreign students. A newspaper in new york predicted that professors at Stanford University would "lecture on empty benches in marble halls", but it was quickly denied by reality. The first batch of boys and girls were ***555, and the initial 15 faculty members increased to 49 in the second year [8]. The first president of the school was David Starr Jordan, who graduated from Cornell University. After resigning as president of Indiana University, he joined the expedition to the west.
The Stanford couple also hired Frederick Law Olmsted, a famous landscape architect who designed new york Central Park, to plan and build the university campus. Although their cooperation was controversial [9], the square courtyard structure with the east-west axis [10] was finally determined. Today, although Stanford University is still expanding, its architects still try their best to follow this original design scheme.
A Brief History of Stanford University 2- New Century
[1] Now Palo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA, located in the southwest of the San Francisco Bay Area, between Mountain View and Menlo Park. -Wikipedia entry: Palo Alto (California)
[2] Palo Alto, Spanish, "Palo" means tree, and "Alto" means tall, that is, "tall tree", which is also translated as "tall tree". The original text here is "The town that began to emerge near this land was named Palo Alto after a giant California redwood on the bank of Quito Creek in San Francisco".
[3] Even the city emblem of Palo Alto is this Palo Alto tree. See Wikipedia entry: Palo Alto (California) for details. -translator's note
[4] Jane Laslop Stanford, Leland Stanford's wife, was born on August 25th, 828, and died on February 28th, 905. For details, please see Wikipedia entry: Jane Lathrop Stanford. -translator's note
[5] The original text is "The Stanford couple said this because they don't want to do anything for their children,' The children in California should be our children'." "-translator's note.
[6] According to this record, the story of Stanford University, which was widely circulated in the past, was fabricated when the president of Harvard refused the donation of the Stanford couple and led them to create a new school. To view this story, click: /RwBoVKp. -translator's note
[7] The original text is "unconventional", which means "unconventional". In order to make the sentence smooth, it is translated as "unusual". -translator's note
[8] These original teachers include: mathematician Robert El-Daisy, botanist Douglas Campbell Horton, zoologist Charles Henry Gilbert, historian George Eliot Howard, physiologist and histologist Oliver peebles Jenkins, civil engineer Charles David Marx, physicist Fernando Sanford and chemist John Markussen steelman. In the second academic year (1892- 1893), psychologists Frank Angel, civil engineers leander M. hoskins, classical linguist Walter Miller, another zoologist George C. Pais and another historian Alai B. Su were recruited. Most of these two groups of professors have been teaching at Stanford until they retire. Therefore, they are all called "lodge guards" of universities. -Wikipedia entry: Stanford University, with deletion.
[9] olmsted is responsible for the overall architectural concept of the campus. He refused to use mountains and suggested using more practical flat land. -Wikipedia entry: Stanford University
[10] The original text was "but it eventually led to a quadruped tissue on the east-west axis".