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A School I Have Attended

Stanford University, famous as one of northern California's several institutions of higher learning, is called “the Harvard of the West”. Its reputation is based on its location, its intelligent students, its distinguished faculty, its overseas programmes, its substantial endowment, and its recent extensive growth.

The closeness of Stanford to San Francisco, a city thirty miles to the north of, gives the university a decidedly cosmopolitan flavour. Equally cosmopolitan is the student body. Students enrol principally from the western United States. But most of the fifty states send students to Stanford, and many foreign students study here as well. Young men and women are selected for admission for the university from the upper fifteen percent of their high school classes. Not only because of the high calibre of their students but also because of their desirable location and climate, has Stanford attracted to its faculty some of the world's most respected scholars. Among them have been Dr. Robert North in Asiatic studies and Dr. Albert Guerard in humanities. Stanford's undergraduate school of engineering and its graduate schools of business, law and medicine are particularly strong. Recently the university established overseas branch study centres in Germany, Italy, France, and Japan for its third-year students. In addition to financial support to the alumni, Stanford receives grants from the government and from private philanthropic foundations. In recent years, government grants have made possible advanced studies in the fields of history, psychology, education, and atomic energy.

Founded in 1891, Stanford is now considered comparable in quality to such to such other longer established major American universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia.

(From American English Rhetoric by Robert G. Bander).