“In fact, seven Stanford professors reputedly were night-shirters.” It was the first time the bucolic campus had seen such a commotion. Though the university, founded in 1885 by railroad ...

University spokesperson Luisa Rapport wrote in an email to The Daily that “the founding grant by Senator Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford in 1885 conveyed to the University an initial ...

Stanford University has one of the largest campuses in the US and is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It was established in 1885 and opened six years later as a co-educational ...