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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
It’s OBVIOUS Stanford is where it is because there were a big and wealth city northwards, otherwise it could be on California-Oregon border instead in the middle of nowhere.
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I don't think that's particularly obvious.
When Stanford was founded, there was no big/wealthy city anywhere in the Western U.S. And it isn't like you need a nearby big city to have an elite university.
Cornell's Ithaca campus is in the middle of nowhere. The nearest cities of note are NYC and Toronto, both about 4 hours away. Duke, Dartmouth, Amherst and many other elite universities were established in relatively isolated settings.
Leland Stanford lived in Sacramento and San Francisco, so yeah, Stanford was established where it was based on him; it wouldn't be on the Oregon border. But I don't think it's accurate to say that Stanford was established based on a relationship with SF.