LELAND STANFORD, JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY, a coeducational seat of | hi; gher learning situated at Palo Alto, California, about 30 miles southeast of San Francisco. It was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their only son, who died in 1884 in his fifteenth year. The university grounds cover about 9,000 acres, and the buildings are modeled after the architecture of the old Spanish mi ions. The endowment which originally embraced about 90,000 acres of land in California, has since greatly expanded, largely by further munificent gifts of money and securities bequeathed by the Stan fords in their wills. In 1922 the endowment fund amounted to $26,450,000. The buildings were seriously damaged by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. One of their striking features is the Memorial Church, built by Mrs. Stanford in memory of her husband. Women students are admitted to the limit of 500 only. The curriculum is very extensive and is framed to realize the founders’ wishes that the university should ‘qualify students for personal succe and direct usefulne in life.’ It includes bacteriology, marine biology, food research, physical education, law and medicine, as well as all the technical arts and the customary collegiate courses in established subjects of higher instruction. There are degrees in arts, law, medicine, philosophy and engineering, but no honorary degrees are granted. The university’s first president was David Starr Jordan. In 1922 there was a student roll of 3,103 and a faculty numbering 102 under the presidency of Ray Lyman Wilbur.