An arcade in in Stanford's main quad in the early 20th century

Silicon Valley's concentration of computer scientists and engineers, in addition to Stanford's broad focus on engineering as well as ethics and the humanities, are believed to be the main reason for his move according to press reports.

The university struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

He was also interested in the trees of Stanford's campus and published a book about them.

Cuninggim insisted that the university's administration and trustees were responsible because they had interpreted the non-sectarian clause in Stanford's charter in " a negative and restrictive fashion rather than as enabling the tolerance and the flourishing of many religious faiths on campus ".

On the university's opening day, Founding President David Starr Jordan said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: " is hallowed by no traditions ; it is hampered by none.

Stanford's advertisement for the long-awaited Flesh of My Flesh in PMLA 125. 1 ( Jan., 2010 ) quotes a review by George Baker of UCLA stating that it " is an extraordinary book: Silverman's magnum opus [...] the kind of book that one comes across only a few times on one's life.

Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth is descended from those early experiments.

As of 2010, Stanford's population is 769 people.

He is heir to his father Stanford's ( Thomas Barbour ) $ 750 million fortune, which he is told will only be his if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson ( Jill Eikenberry ).

It is part of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, a library founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, Stanford's first student and first alumnus, before he became President of the United States.

He is currently the host of Uncommon Knowledge, an interview show by Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Paul Ralph Ehrlich ( born May 29, 1932 ) is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

* Dr. Cristina Yang, a character on the popular medical television drama Grey's Anatomy is a Stanford alumna and ' graduated first in her class ', despite Stanford's medical school not actually having grades or rankings

( For higher notes see, for example, the treble solo at the beginning of Stanford's Magnificat in G, David Willcocks ' descant to Mendelssohn's tune for the carol Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, the even higher treble solo from Gregorio Allegri's " Miserere ", and the treble part in the Nunc Dimittis from Tippett's Evening Canticles written for St John's College, Cambridge ) Many trebles are also able to reach higher notes by use of the whistle register but this practice is rarely called for in performance.

The Toreros ' lone national champion is Zuzana Lesenarova, who won the women's tennis singles championship in 2000 by defeating Stanford's Marissa Irvin 4-6, 6-3, 7-6.

* Stanford's Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Center is named in his honor.

However, Stanford's, M. I. T .´ s, and U. S. C .´ s PMS color is 201, while Carnegie Mellon and Worcester Polytechnic Institute use PMS 187, Brown University uses PMS 192, Iowa State University uses PMS 186, and Ball State University uses PMS 199.

Rabbi Karlin-Neumann is Stanford's first Jewish associate dean of religious life.

She is also a member of Stanford's Women's Community Center.

Jane Stanford's taste and knowledge of both contemporary and classical art is evident in several aspects of the plan, appearance, and architecture of the church, which " dazzle the eye yet also produce an atmosphere of quiet contemplation ".

Nearby is a memorial ( the Angel of Grief ) to Jane Stanford's brother, Henry Clay Lathrop.

Stanford's team name is " The Cardinal ," referring to the vivid red color ( not the common song bird as at several other schools ), and the university has never been able to come up with an official mascot.

Also misleading can be the use of B for a Baritone part or S for an Mz part as for example in Stanford's motet " Eternal Father " which, though marked SSATBB, is for one each of soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass.

No degree is awarded after the two-year fellowship ; prior to 1990, many fellows enrolled in Stanford's now-defunct MA program in creative writing.

After Jane Stanford's death, the mosaic popularly gained the name " The Sermon on the Mount ", although Stanford University historian Richard Joncas insists that the mosaic does not depict the scene as described in the Gospel of Matthew and has referred to it simply as " an indefinite biblical scene ".

Stanford's father was a farmer of some means.

A Sea Symphony is among the best-known of a host of sea-related pieces being written around the same time in England, some of the most famous of which are Stanford's Songs of the Sea ( 1904 ) and Songs of the Fleet ( 1910 ), Elgar's Sea Pictures ( 1899 ), and Frank Bridge's The Sea ( 1910 ).

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

Stanford has won 103 NCAA championships ( the second-most for a university ), and Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors ' Cup every year since 1995.

The integration of the Stanford Alumni Association into the university in 1998 enhanced outreach to Stanford's alumni worldwide.

The church's chaplains were instrumental in the founding of Stanford's religious studies department, moving Stanford from a " completely secular university " at the middle of the century to " the renaissance of faith and learning at Stanford " in the late 1960s, when the study of religion at the university focused on social and ethical issues like race and the Vietnam War.

After Leland Stanford's death in 1893, legal disputes tied up the Stanford estate and prevented the completion of the university for several years.

Stanford's Memorial Church's dean at the time, Robert C. Gregg, obtained permission from the university administration and discussed it with his staff before the ceremony was performed.

Stanford's history of providing free transportation is as old as the university itself.

His website NuclearRisk. org has been endorsed by a number of prominent individuals including a former Director of the National Security Agency, Stanford's President Emeritus, and two Nobel Laureates.

Ross investigated the problems of immigrant workers, including the Chinese who worked for Southern Pacific, the railroad run by Stanford's founder Leland Stanford.

Stanford alumnus George E. Crothers became a close adviser to Jane Stanford following his graduation from Stanford's law school in 1896.

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives ( official name: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ) at Stanford was set up in 1920 by Herbert C. Hoover, one of Stanford's first graduates.

Stanford's reputation, competitive admissions, and strong legacy of entrepreneurship have contributed to the East-West rivalry between Stanford and such institutions as Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University.

* Edward Stanford, founder of map and book publisher Stanford's

Weaver attended Sarah Lawrence College as well as Stanford University where she first began her involvement in acting, by living in Stanford's co-ed Beta Chi Community for the Performing Arts.

In February 2007, Jerry Yang and his wife gave US $ 75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the " Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building ", a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building, the first to be realized on Stanford's new Science and Engineering Quad.

" Later in the 1980s and up to 1993, before returning to the Pentagon as deputy secretary of defense, he held positions as chairman of Technology Strategies Alliances, professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and a co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

* Beyond Capitalism: Leland Stanford's Forgotten Vision, by Lee Altenberg, < I > Sandstone and Tile </ I >, 1990, Stanford Historical Society

* Stanford's racist speech: " Leland Stanford promised in his inaugural address to protect the state from " the dregs of Asia "-PBS. org

* Jane Stanford -- Jane Stanford's 1898 Time Capsule

A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools ; Knight gave the largest donation in history at the time to Stanford's business school in 2006.

Donations to Stanford, especially from alumni, increased sharply under Casper's leadership, with particular emphasis on fortifying Stanford's endowment and increasing participation through the creation of the Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education.

* During a temporary housing crisis, the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper referred to a fictional solution to the resulting housing crisis at Stanford University as " Hooverville " due to its proximity to Stanford's Hoover Tower.

She ended her Stanford career with a 2010 NCAA title on the uneven bars with a score of 9. 9375, only the second NCAA individual title in Stanford's history.

* Edwin Kiester, Jr., Donald Tresidder: Stanford's Overlooked Treasure ( Stanford Historical Society, 1992 )

The Mungers also gave a major gift to Stanford's Green Library to fund the restoration of the Bing Wing as well as the construction of a rotunda on the library's second floor, and endowed the Munger Chair in Nancy and Charles Munger Professorship of Business at Stanford Law School.