Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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The winning of the great Government suit marks the fifth year, which brought certainty and hope where there had been uncertainty and doubt, but no immediate increase in revenues. The history of the sixth year is still in the making. Mrs. Stanford has deeded to the University her San Francisco home, and the Legis- lature has turned us one cold shoulder. And all important events are duly chronicled in the succeeding pages of the Quad. The statistics given below summarize the University ' s history in several particulars. Number of Students. ' 91-92 ' 92-93 ' 93-94 ' 94-95 ' 95-96 ' 9 -97 Old - - - - - - 380 498 671 702 695 New ------ - 559 384 477 429 367 396 559 764 975 HOC 1069 109 1 Men - - - - 417 537 678 72S 691 691 Women - - - - - - 142 227 297 372 378 400 Percentage of Women 25-4 29.7 30.4 33.8 35-3 36.6 From California - 365 468 576 6S0 69S 729 From other States 194 296 399 420 371 362 Percentage from other States - 34-7 38.7 41. 38.2 0. I 34-7 33-2 ELI.10TT. ■ ■Y. ' -J tX.xXX.

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The opening of the University saw the establishment of the Palo Alto, a monthly newspaper, earnest in its advocacy of the now forgotten project to raise a student memorial to the founders of the University. The Palo Alto finally launched upon the dangerous sea of art illustra- tion, and joining forces with Berkeley appeared as an intercollegiate magazine, finally going out in a great blaze of notoriety which shook the Examiner to its foundations. The Sequoia was also started ; and that first famous game of football sealed the Universit3 ' ' s athletic supremacy. The second year brought a great increase in students and faculty, the Daily Palo Alto, the completion of the museum, new shops, new departments, new projects unnumbered. Prices had been raised in the halls, and out the students went taking almost forcible possession of May- field, filling it full to bursting. That was the year when a real estate halo rested over College Terrace, while Palo Alto was struggling to get itself born. The second long vacation was saddened by the sudden death of Mr. Stanford. And this great loss had a most momentous bearing upon the affairs of the University ' . With no ready money of its own, its endowments wholly unproductive, a great financial storm precluding . the possibility of borrowing, the estate of Mr. Stanford thoroughly tied up in the courts, only the personal fortune and personal devotion of Mrs. Stanford stood between the University and eclipse. The news- papers, with a curiosity only equaled by their colossal obtuseness, scented danger where there was none, and never saw the thin ice at all. The president sent out a circular letter to all old students stating that the revenues were ample for existing departments, and that no work undertaken would suffer. This pious fiction was possible because Mrs. Stanford had heroically assumed the enormous burden, which indeed she has never laid down to this moment. And so with some clipping of wings, but no ver} ' perceptible shrinkage of equipment the third year went on with another increase of two hundred students. And we did get a post-office. The fourth year saw few outward changes. The government suit settled down like a pall upon future prospects, but present revenues were untouched. The number of students went up to eleven hundred — still high water mark — and the first full class, the pioneers, were graduated. Enthusiasm never flagged, and the prestige of the Uni- versity steadily increased.

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FOUNDERS. =LEIvAND STANFORD. JANE LATHROP STANFORD. Board of Trustees: The Hon. Francis E. Spfncer, Chairman - - - vSan Jose The Hon. Charles Goodall - - . . San Francisco Col. Charles F. Crocker ----- Sau Francisco Mr. Timothy Hopkins . - - . . g n Francisco The Hon. Henry E. Dodge ----- San Francisco Mr. Irving M. Scott ------ San Francisco Dr. Harvey W. Harkness ----- San Francisco The Hon. Horace Davis ----- San Francisco The Hon. John Boggs ------- Colusa The Hon. T. B. McFarland ----- Sacramento The Hon. Isaac S. Belcher ----- San Francisco The Hon. George E. Gray - - - - gan Francisco The Hon. Nathan W. Spaulding ----- Oakland The Hon. William M. Stewart - - Virginia City, Nev. The Hon. Stephen J. Field - - - - Washington, D. C. The Rev. Horatio Stebbins, D.D. - - - San Francisco Mr. Joseph D. Grant ------ San Francisco Mr. S. F. Eeib -------- San Jose Mr. Eeon Sloss ------- San Francisco Dr. Edward R. Taylor ----- San Francisco Mr. Thomas Welton Stanford - - Melbourne, Australia Mr. Frank Miller ------- Sacramento Mr. Charles G. Eathrop ----- San Francisco Mr. Josiah W. Stanford ----- Warm Springs M r. Russell J. Wilson - - - - - San Francisco Herbert C. Nash, Secretary. Died June 21, 1893. 13