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Book Synopsis Jane Lathrop Stanford, Mother of a University by : Catherine Pyke
Download or read book Jane Lathrop Stanford, Mother of a University written by Catherine Pyke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the heroic story of Jane Stanford, Leland Stanford's widow who single handedly saved the fledgling university of almost certain destruction.
Book Synopsis Jane Lathrop Stanford by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book Jane Lathrop Stanford written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jane Lathrop Stanford, a Eulogy by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book Jane Lathrop Stanford, a Eulogy written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by : Robert W. P. Cutler
Download or read book The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford written by Robert W. P. Cutler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroners jury verdict of murderby strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordans diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr. Jordans claim and to show that Mrs. Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr. Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr. Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs. Stanfords death.
Book Synopsis The Fall of the Faculty by : Benjamin Ginsberg
Download or read book The Fall of the Faculty written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience--one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty. As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.
Book Synopsis Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by : Richard White
Download or read book Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University written by Richard White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.
Book Synopsis Letters Home from Stanford: 125 Years of Correspondence from Stanford University Students by : Alison Carpenter Davis
Download or read book Letters Home from Stanford: 125 Years of Correspondence from Stanford University Students written by Alison Carpenter Davis and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Disruptor by : Roland De Wolk
Download or read book American Disruptor written by Roland De Wolk and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors. It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him—his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel—a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved. Richly detailed and deeply researched, American Disruptor restores Leland Stanford’s rightful place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern America.
Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Educational Ideals of Jane Lathrop Stanford by : George Edward Crothers
Download or read book The Educational Ideals of Jane Lathrop Stanford written by George Edward Crothers and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Review of Reviews by : Albert Shaw
Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Monthly Review of Reviews by : Albert Shaw
Download or read book American Monthly Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Monthly Review of Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fascinating True Tales from Old California by : Colleen Adair Fliedner
Download or read book Fascinating True Tales from Old California written by Colleen Adair Fliedner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of theGolden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. For many, like James Lick, Leland Stanford, and John Downey, California was a place to strike it rich. Others sought freedom and a new beginning, including Chinese immigrants and African Americans, like philanthropist and freed slave, Biddy Mason. And still some characters just wanted to live their lives outside of society’s rules, like swindler James Reavis or the cross-dressing stagecoach driver, Charley Parkhurst. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California’s colorful past.
Download or read book Raw written by Bella Mahaya Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raw is the story of one woman’s quest for health and happiness, which dragged her kicking and screaming into spiritual adulthood. Anxiety and a desire to heal it holistically—even before she knew what it was—is at the heart of this story, which reveals Carter’s struggles to face her fears, release perfectionism, surrender things beyond her control, and find validation within for her life and work. The book is divided into three sections—body, mind, and spirit—and it begins with Carter’s efforts to holistically cure chronic stomach problems. Toward that end, she adopted a 100 percent raw, vegan diet, which eased her symptoms and produced impressive, unexpected perks, but didn’t completely heal her. She then looked to her mind for answers and discovered that unconscious negative thoughts combined with a stressful, hectic-paced life sabotaged her well-being. Finally, a few mystical experiences brought her “home” to a visceral understanding of who she really is.
Book Synopsis Fred Terman at Stanford by : C. Stewart Gillmor
Download or read book Fred Terman at Stanford written by C. Stewart Gillmor and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Good Woman by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book The Story of a Good Woman written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
