Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Volume 90— 1985 In addition, the Founding Grant established the duties of the trustees, the properties and other capital of the endowment, the powers and duties of the president and the faculty, the provisions for the Mausoleum and Memorial Church, and other details affecting the creation of such a mammoth project. It had been dictated to the calligraphers by Leland Stanford without notes, demonstrating his brilliance and conviction, and it set the standards by which one of the world’s greatest universities would grow. ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARIES There is much more to the story than can possibly be conveyed here; a book of this size could be entirely devoted to the subject and still be inadequate. In the coming six years and beyond will be anniversaries of various events in the school’s history. In addition, all Stanfordites should be thinking about the Stanfords’ vision of a new type of university not following the models of the time, and should understand that the University’s foundation is one of the primary reasons for its success at the hands of the remarkable people who have passed through its doors in the intervening years. A few hundredth anniversaries to remember: March 9, 1885: The Enabling Act November 11, 1885: The Execution of the Founding Grant November 14, 1885: The Acceptance by the First Trustees of the Grant August 15, 1886: Beginning of the First Planning Session with Frederick Law Olmsted and Francis A. Walker, President of MIT May 14, 1887: Laying of the Cornerstone March, 1891: Appointment of David Starr Jordan as First President October 1, 1891: The Opening of the University Happy Birthday, L.S.J.U.! 1885-1985 43

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The Stanford Quad X time made an offer of their fortune to either of those schools, nor to the University of California, as various myths have often claimed. THE FOUNDING OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY The Stanfords returned to California in November of 1884, and set immediately to the establishment of the University. Stanford intended to create and endow a trust for the University, but the laws of California were lacking in this area, so the First step was to secure the passage of an enabling act.” This act, providing for the creation of trusts for the “founding, endowing, erection, and maintenance” of universities, colleges, museums, and the like, passed the State Assembly with only four dissenting votes and the State Senate unanimously, becoming law on March 9, 1885 — Leland Stanford’s 61st birthday. The Enabling Act provided that there should be a board of trustees to execute the affairs of the institution, and the Stanfords appointed 24 prominent San Franciscans as the first board. On November 14, 1885, in the library of the Nob Hill mansion, they presented the board with the Grant Founding and Endowing the Leland Stanford Junior University,” which they had executed three days earlier on November 11. Thus was born Stanford University. THE FOUNDING GRANT The school’s nature was to be “that of a university of the highest grade ... its object, “to qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life;” and its purposes, “to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization, teaching the blessings of liberty regulated by law, and inculcating love and reverence for the great principles of government as derived from the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (Continual on page 43) OPPOSITE page F.l Palo Alto, symbol of the Farm, the University, and the City. This PAGE The title page of the Founding Grant. 42 1883-1983

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The Stanford Quad X The summer of 1984 was a time of celebration and sadness at Stanford. At Commencement, Former University President Richard Lyman (ABOVE) told graduates to “find fulfillment in meeting the problems of our age head on. In July, the stadium found itself host to a part of the Olympic celebration, the soccer quarter-finals, which featured its own opening ceremonies (RIGHT). Yet sadness was also a part of the summer when White Plaza’s favorite citizen, fruit-seller Thomas Dallas (BELOW RIGHT), died of a heart attack in late June. Ctktusf if RtJ Surety! The Stanford Daily 1985: A Year in Review 44 1885-1985 Cikrtny tf RtJ Sunryl The Stanford Daily