Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University (1999)

Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game between Stanford and UC Berkeley, early student life, the rise of tenure, and the 1906 earthquake. Part 2, "The Transformation," covers the development of Stanford as a world-renowned research university; highlights include the administrations of Provost Frederick E. Terman and President J. E. Wallace Sterling, the role of federal funding in the university's expansion, the turmoil of the 1960s, and the growth of new technologies leading to the personal computer revolution.

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This is an excellent source on the history of Stanford over the first 100 years since its founding. Thank you for posting!

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An amazing and nice story at the same time about how the Stanford University was founded. Many (included myself) wrongly so far believed the Leland and Jane Stanford decided to build their own University in California because their son was not accepted at Harvard, when in fact the son died at the age of sixteen, nothing more far from reality!!!.

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I thought I had heard the same stuff too somewhere. That they in fact build Standford because their son hadn’t been accepted in Harvard. But I had also heard that their son had died at young age and that they build in in his memory

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Look at all of the company connected and crested by Stanford students and faculty. Sun micro systems, CISCO Systems. Google was created by students doing their masters. Mark Zuckerberg transferred from Harvard to Stanford where he founded Facebook. Yahoo was created by Stanford students. List goes on.

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Amazing documentary!

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Very interesting documentary on Stanford - learned a lot from this one!
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