Me había olvidado de esta entrada en mi blog… yo también leí lo que dice la página de Stanford (y si me hubiese acordado, ponía una reseña aquí también ), así que gracias por el enlace!!

Saludos!

http://www.stanford.edu/about/history/#myth
The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard’s president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing “cultured and useful citizens” when most were concerned only with the former.