Well, its not quite total bull, but the real one isn't quite as humorous
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The Stanfords returned to America in May and, before proceeding to Palo
Alto, visited Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. They talked with President Eliot of Harvard about three ideas:
a university at Palo Alto, a large institution in San Francisco combining a
lecture hall and a museum, and a technical school. They asked him which
of these seemed most desirable and President Eliot answered, a university.
Mrs. Stanford then asked him how much the endowment should be, in
addition to land and buildings, and he replied, not less than $5 million. A
silence followed and Mrs. Stanford looked grave. Finally, Mr. Stanford
said with a smile, "Well, Jane, we could manage that, couldn't we?" and
Mrs. Stanford nodded her assent. |
