The yellow sandstone arches and cloisters, the red-tiled roofs against the azure sky, make a picture that can never be ...

The start of construction on Stanford Stadium on June 1, 1921, was a moment for the school to quite literally bring out the big guns. No sooner had university president Ray Lyman Wilbur, Class of 1896 ...

Briefly, earlier this year, Andrew Boynton, ’83, was famous, which is rare for a copy editor. But it was the New Yorker’s 100th birthday, and the magazine’s head of copy was celebrating with a little ...

More than 8,500 alumni and their guests reconnected at Reunion Homecoming this month. Alumni from classes ending in 1 and 6 attended class parties, learned from Stanford faculty, fountain hopped for ...

When the Stanford Post Office closed its doors for good on October 31, it was a minor shift in modern campus life. The university had already set up mail and package centers for students receiving ...

For the fans packing San Francisco's Recreation Park on Thanksgiving Day in 1897, any suspense in the "annual struggle" between Stanford and California had quickly evaporated. By halftime, the ...

Garry Nolan has published more than 300 papers over a 30-year career as an immunologist, but none like the one that appeared in the January 2022 issue of Progress in Aerospace Sciences. It wasn’t just ...

Last fall, I went back to Stanford. Not to attend a class or wedding or reunion, but to move my 18-year-old son into Crothers Hall, his freshman dorm. Since his high school graduation three months ...

The author of Tom Sawyer is avuncular, unthreatening, genial—cuddly almost. The Mark Twain that comes later has sharper edges, and may not be cuddly at all. What does it mean to embrace the tame Twain ...

Four years ago, on a serene campus in Menlo Park, a group of longtime editors for Sunset Publishing Corporation, whose magazine touted such halcyon coverlines as “Can’t-Miss Pies” and “Other Things to ...

On a Tuesday afternoon in November 1900, Edward Alsworth Ross gathered several student reporters in his campus office. Ross, 33 years old and a Stanford economics professor of seven years, had joined ...