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Shards of a Chinese vase, a stone mortar and pestle and a brass phoenix button: These artifacts and many more are currently on display in the exhibit “Before Stanford: Founding Communities, Present... Read More »

The "Angel of Grief" statue at the Stanford family Mausoleum was recently vandalized, according to a Stanford Department of Public Safety report received Tuesday, Aug. 11. Read More »

One hundred ten years ago this month, Jane Lathrop Stanford died of strychnine poisoning. Since then, the circumstances of her apparent murder have not been fully fleshed out — until now. Or so... Read More »

As one of the original buildings of the Stanford campus, the Cantor Arts center is certainly old enough to have been host to some creepy encounters with the (potentially) supernatural over the years.... Read More »

In honor of Halloween, The Daily takes a look at some of the spookier, gloomier and scarier moments of Stanford’s history. Read More »

Sitting next to the Mausoleum, the “Angel of Grief” might be the lesser known of the two Stanford landmarks, yet the image of an angel hunched over in tears is hard to forget. The statue is even... Read More »

...As I approached, I glanced at them and realized that I did know them. I knew quite a bit about them. No, we hadn’t been introduced before. Yes, we had mutual friends. But the ultimate source of... Read More »

While every edition of the University’s major newspapers as well as research publications, Board of Trustee minutes and high-level policy decisions are stored in the archives, interesting trinkets... Read More »