The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-21
INDIANA HAS
MUCH INTEREST
Many Hoosiers Have Been
Connected with Leland
Stanford.
A LIST OF PROFESSORS
DAVID STARR JORDAN WENT TO
LELAND FROM THE INDIANA
STATE UNIVERSITY OTHER
NOTABLE EDUCATORS
A LIST OF PROFESSORS



Indianapolis, April 20.-Particular
interest in Indiana is centered in the
Leland Stanford Jr. University,
which is reported in ruins with the
exception of one building, because
more students have gone from this
state to that university than to any
other western institution. DR.. David
Starr Jordan, who became the head
of the great university when it was
opened in 1891 and has since re-
NAMED its only president. was, prior
to that time, the president OF Indiana
State University. When DR.. Jordan
went to Palo Alto he took with him
many members of the State UNIVERSE
ty faculty and many students also
followed him. Since that time Indi-
ana has probably had a larger repre-
sentation at Stanford than any ether
state not on the Pacific Stops.
Among the former Indiana Univer-
sity professors who followed DR.. Jor-
dan to Stanford and are still there
are Prof. John c. I3ranner, now vice
president of the institution; Prof.
Rufus l.. Green, head of the depart
ment of mathematics; Prof. John F.
Newsom, professor of geology; Prof.
Oliver P. Jenkins, professor of phys
iology, also formerly of De PAW; Dr.
Gilbert, professor of biology; DR..
Joseph Swain, former president of
Indiana University and now pres;-
dent of Swarthmore, accompanied DR..
I Of hn oft tool
department at Stanford DIR. John A.
Miller. head of the department of
astronomy and mathematics at Indi-
ana University, held similar chair
at Stanford for some time. Lloyd
Bates, son Of the Late Henry S. Bates,
the cobbler-philosop friend of DR..
Jordan who became registrar Of
Indiana University, holds a position
in the library at Stanford.
Total Endowment 23o,oco,cco.
The university was founded by the
late Senator Stanford, multim.llion-
aire, as q memorial to his sou. Leland
Stanford J who died in 1884 in the
promise CT Young manhood. The
corner store Ct the first Of the thirty
Gl@A DtAAIAt.Is . NS'o itlAtt III 1901, D2G ~
university was not ready for students
until 1891. The original endowm ert
consisted of 10000 acres of land +
various parts OF California. BY the
VII Of Ger9tor Stanford tire univc~r'
ty received s2,500,oOo, and after his
death Mrs. Stanford decided to it al
most the whole of the residue of tn
estate, including the Stanford man
sion in San Francisco, making tn
total endowment about s30,000000,
The University lies southeast of So
Francisco thirty-three miles in {
Santa Clara Valley. Palo Alto is
town Of 5000 people on the Southe-
Pacific Railroad. The university E
covers about 1000 acres. The arch
lecture OF the university buildings is
| q modification of the style Of the old
Spanish missions. The central build.
ings of buff sandstone, with roofs OF
red tile, constitute two GuadTanGIes
! one surrounding the other. The build
ings are said tc be the finest cluster
OF buildings used for educational pur-
| poses in this country. They are not
high, most of them being four stories
or less. The Memorial chapel, which
is situated in the center OF the group
was built at a cost of more than
! 100000. The grounds about the I'M