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Stanford University
Address: 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Acceptance rate: 6.6% (2012)
Founded: November 11, 1885
Colors: Cardinal, White
Motto: The wind of freedom blows, Die Luft der Freiheit weht
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is an American privateresearch university located in Stanford, California in the northwestern Silicon Valley on an 8,180-acre (33.1 km2) campus near Palo Alto.[note 1][9] It is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.[10][11][12][13]
Leland Stanford, governor of and U.S. senator from California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, founded the university in 1891 in memory of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution. Tuition was free until the 1930s.[14] 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. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, and was one of the original
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