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1. The Fake Stanford University Story
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Brett Blair
... that... perhaps a building," the woman replied. In a patronizing tone, Eliot brushed aside the idea as being too expensive and the couple departed. The next year, Eliot learned that this plain pair had gone elsewhere and established a $26 million memorial named Leland Stanford Junior University, better known today as Stanford! ACTUAL FOUNDING: Leland Stanford was once governor of California and, in 1876, he bought the first of what would become more than 8,000 acres of land on the San Francisco peninsula ...
2. Castaway
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
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James Merritt
... you ought to buy this book and read it. It is the story of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. On May 8, 1869, on board a special train of the Central Pacific Railroad, traveled a man named Leland Stanford, for whom Stanford University is named. On board that train with Stanford was the last spike that would be driven made of gold, the last tie made of laurel, and a silver-headed hammer which would be used to complete officially the Transcontinental Railroad. The ceremony of completing the ...
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Robert R. Kopp
... . The president was pleased. He thought he could get rid of them now. Then the woman turned to her husband and said, "Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveled to Palo Alto, California, and built a university which bears their name as a memorial to a son that Harvard didn't care about. I also think of Jodie Harrison. Jodie was dying of cancer. I prayed healing for Jodie. Following the prescription ...
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Carveth Mitchell
... sorrow, injustice, disappointment or misfortune - we are to handle them with the same wisdom and foresight with which the crooked steward handled his calamity. We are not to let them rob us of our trust in God’s power and love. For example, when Leland Stanford lost his son, he did not handle the calamity with bitterness and resignation. Out of his heartache he built a school for other boys. It has become one of America’s great universities. He handled his calamity with wisdom and foresight. He did not ...
5. Pay It Forward
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Edward W. Bok
There were once two young men working their way through Leland Stanford University. Their funds got desperately low, and the idea came to one of them to engage Paderewski for a piano recital and devote the profits to their board and tuition. The great pianist's manager asked for a guarantee of two thousand dollars. The students, undaunted, proceeded to stage the ...
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