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Stanford University was born from tragedy. In 1884, as Leland and Jane Stanford were concluding a tour of Europe, their only child was stricken with typhoid and died in Florence. Heartbroken at the loss of their fifteen-year-old son, they devoted the remainder of their lives and their fortune to his memory. Their decision to found a university, as well as a museum, honored his (and their) enthusiasm for education, collecting, and the public welfare. Leland Stanford Junior University would become a “new engine of civilization,” according to its founders. The technological metaphor was not happenstance: as one of the builders of the transcontinental railroad, Leland Stanford was identified with the technological spirit of progress in the West.
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(2006). The Original Campus: 1886–1906. In: Stanford University. The Campus Guide. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-664-5_5
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