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1、The Stanford University Brief introduction Student Enrollment 6,994 undergraduates 9,128 graduates Faculty 2,153 faculty members 20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community 4:1 student to faculty ratio Campus 8,180 contiguous acres Nearly 700 major buildings 97% of undergradua

2、tes live on campus Research 5,500 externally sponsored projects $1.22 billion total budget Established 1885 Opened 1891 17,600 1,550 11:1 Shaanxi normal University 2,700 21 Leadership President Marc Tessier-Lavigne Provost John Etchemendy since 2000 Seven Schools Business Earth Sciences Education En

3、gineering Humanities and Sciences Law Medicine Endowment $22.2 billion (as of Aug. 31, 2015) The world ranking of the Stanford The Stanford ranks forth in the world universities ranking. The University of Harvard ranks first. The MIT ranks second. The University of California-Berkeley ranks third. I

4、nfrastructure library Stanford University has 30 libraries, not only a collection of more than 650 million copies, and a fully computerized management. Shaanxi Normal University:4 million paper quality books Sports facility The schools sports facilities can accommodate 85,000 people stadium, golf co

5、urse,baseball park, softball field and swimming pool, fully reflects the benefits of campus area. Canteen Health care Location History The rudiment of the Stanford In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the deve

6、lopment of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres. Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader o

7、f the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Within weeks of his death, the Stanfords decided that, because they no longer could do anything for thei

8、r own child, the children of California shall be our children. They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son. The Stanfords considered several possibilities a university, a technical school, a museum. While on the East Coast, they visited Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Joh

9、ns Hopkins to seek advice on starting a new university in California. Ultimately, they decided to establish two institutions in Leland Juniors name - the University and a museum. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all

10、-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing cultured and useful citizens. On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford

11、professors would lecture in marble halls to empty benches was quickly disproved. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year. The universitys first president was David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left his p

12、ost as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out West. The Stanford and The Silicon Valley In the 1970s, the Stanford rent out 1,000 acres area to the companies that are founded by graduates or industrial and commercial circles . Today, the Stanford is besieged by many technical comm

13、unities and companies. With the rise of the high technology on the west-coast line, many computer companies pitch camps there, including the century darling Microsoft. From then on, the status of the Stanford becomes more and more important. The Stanford becomes the core of the Silicon Valley and th

14、e center of the worldwide technical innovation. School motto The wind of freedom blows This sentence since the 16th century German anthropologist Ulrich von Hutten The motto is to encourage and guarantee students and faculties in the Stanford to do teaching and relevant researching freely. School ba

15、 dge It was founded in 1891. The stars represent the schools glorious achievements. Pine trees , symbol of the tenacious will a nd noble quality , the image of the tree re presents the school ents teachingconcept i n one hundred. Mountains and rivers and land represents its far- reaching vision and

16、good prospects for de velopment. The wind of freedom blows is the school motto. School song Hail Stanford Hail - StanfordUniversity Alma Mater Where the rolling foothills rise Up towards mountains higher Where at eve the Coast Range lies In the sunset fire Flushing deep and paling Here we raise our

17、voices， hailing Thee, our Alma Mater From the Foothills to the bay It shall ring As we sing It shall ring and float away Hail， Stanford， hail！ Hail， Stanford， hail！ I found a similarity among all of the famous graduates from the Stanford. They all have the ability to change the world. If you want to

18、 know about their story, you can search them on net after class. PS: Brief introduction Student Enrollment 6,994 undergraduates 9,128 graduates Faculty 2,153 faculty members 20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community 4:1 student to faculty ratio Campus 8,180 contiguous acres

19、Nearly 700 major buildings 97% of undergraduates live on campus Research 5,500 externally sponsored projects $1.22 billion total budget Established 1885 Opened 1891 17,600 1,550 11:1 Shaanxi normal University 2,700 21 The world ranking of the Stanford The Stanford ranks forth in the world universiti

20、es ranking. The University of Harvard ranks first. The MIT ranks second. The University of California-Berkeley ranks third. Infrastructure Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the ra

21、ilroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Within weeks of his death, the Stanfords decided that, because they no longer

22、could do anything for their own child, the children of California shall be our children. They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son. The Stanfords considered several possibilities a university, a technical school, a museum. While on the East Coast, they visited Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Johns Hopkins to seek advice on starting a new university in California. Ultimately, they