Stanford University is a private university that is located near the city of Palo Alto, California, United States right in the heart of Silicon Valley, approximately 60 kilometers to the southeast of the city of San Francisco and approximately 30 km northeast of San Jose in Santa Clara County area .
Stanford University is the second largest university campus in the world, and consists of the School of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities, and Science. The university has a number of programs and a teaching hospital which act as a social activity that reaches to the entire surrounding community.
Stanford was founded by a couple who came from the village, the Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. The university is named after kelarga to honor their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid, every few days ahead of the anniversary anaknyanyang 16th. On the morning of the death of their son, Leland Sr. supposed to have said to his wife, "The children in California will be our children." Finally the couple soon decided to look for a lasting way to commemorate their beloved child. That is why, finally stood Stanford Univ as we have seen up to now.
Initially they were going to award a building to Harvard, but was rejected and given advice to establish its own university. At that time, the local community and those affiliated with the university calls this school as a school Ranch, because it is in fact the university is located at the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm. The area of approximately 32 km ² Stanford University. With its main campus is bounded by El Camino Real Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard and Sand Hill Road in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula.
The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 consists of 559 students its first university students, with free tuition, has 15 lecturers, and 7 of them are from Cornell University. The school was established for men and women, although the acceptance of his students are limited in the long term .. It is not caused by anti-female sentiment, but because of concerns on the part of Jane Stanford, who feel that without that restriction, the school will soon be full with the student alone, which he considered incompatible with the original intention to make this university as a memorial to her son. With the first President David Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left the post earlier as president of Indiana University.
Stanford University's official motto is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Idea from Stanford mate. Were quoted German Ulrich von Hutten which means "The wind of freedom blows." Because at the time the school was founded, the German language has just replaced Latin as dominant language in science and philosophy.
In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first designed, Stanford presents the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect who created New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted to the west coast to provide consultation. Olmsted describes a general concept for the campus and buildings. He rejected the hilly and prefer a flat surface, which is more practical. Stanford was designed by Spanish colonial style, which is commonly known as the California Mission Revival.
Stanford University is the second largest university campus in the world, and consists of the School of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities, and Science. The university has a number of programs and a teaching hospital which act as a social activity that reaches to the entire surrounding community.
Stanford was founded by a couple who came from the village, the Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. The university is named after kelarga to honor their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid, every few days ahead of the anniversary anaknyanyang 16th. On the morning of the death of their son, Leland Sr. supposed to have said to his wife, "The children in California will be our children." Finally the couple soon decided to look for a lasting way to commemorate their beloved child. That is why, finally stood Stanford Univ as we have seen up to now.
Initially they were going to award a building to Harvard, but was rejected and given advice to establish its own university. At that time, the local community and those affiliated with the university calls this school as a school Ranch, because it is in fact the university is located at the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm. The area of approximately 32 km ² Stanford University. With its main campus is bounded by El Camino Real Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard and Sand Hill Road in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula.
The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 consists of 559 students its first university students, with free tuition, has 15 lecturers, and 7 of them are from Cornell University. The school was established for men and women, although the acceptance of his students are limited in the long term .. It is not caused by anti-female sentiment, but because of concerns on the part of Jane Stanford, who feel that without that restriction, the school will soon be full with the student alone, which he considered incompatible with the original intention to make this university as a memorial to her son. With the first President David Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left the post earlier as president of Indiana University.
Stanford University's official motto is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Idea from Stanford mate. Were quoted German Ulrich von Hutten which means "The wind of freedom blows." Because at the time the school was founded, the German language has just replaced Latin as dominant language in science and philosophy.
In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first designed, Stanford presents the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect who created New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted to the west coast to provide consultation. Olmsted describes a general concept for the campus and buildings. He rejected the hilly and prefer a flat surface, which is more practical. Stanford was designed by Spanish colonial style, which is commonly known as the California Mission Revival.
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