[fullmetal]

I wonder if in 1942,

• If Stanford clutched its pearls as rigidly as it does today in 2025, about thinking their 'academic standards' were better than Notre Dame or Duke, or unchangeable edicts/standards from God  ?

• If the Stanford Band ran around the football field, like chickens with their heads cut off, or mice scurrying around after the kitchen lights were turned on at night, or if they played & marched like a traditional sane college-band (Dont mean to offend any LSJUMB members, but I just wonder if maybe our current band could do 1/2 the games as a traditional marching band, & the other half as the irreverent band, just to make sure some Athletes and students who like great marching bands that march in unison aren't turned off from coming to Stanford)

• If the student body took pride in calling themselves 'Nerds' ?


Just wondering ....

In 1942, there would have been no Japanese students allowed.  Minority students (black, Jewish, Latino, etc.) were few and far between.  People were still dying of polio, influenza, diptheria, etc.  I'm guessing university enrollment everywhere was lower due to wartime enlistment, and that affected the competitive landscape.  Hank Luisetti, of Stanford basketball fame, suffered a bout of near-fatal spinal meningitis that prevented him from playing professionally for the Knicks (or any team ever again) in 1946.

In 1949 Wallace Sterling became president (1949–1968) and he oversaw the rise of Stanford from a regional university to one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. Before the 1950s many regarded Stanford as being "a college for the children of wealthy parents".

https://www.proquest.com/docview/1435607944

Basically, Stanford in 1942 was SMU right about now (or some years prior to their ACC membership).

There should be no wistful longing to return to Stanford of 1942, nor should that time be held as a standard for Stanford of today.

[fullmetal]

I wonder if in 1942,

• If Stanford clutched its pearls as rigidly as it does today in 2025, about thinking their 'academic standards' were better than Notre Dame or Duke, or unchangeable edicts/standards from God  ?

• If the Stanford Band ran around the football field, like chickens with their heads cut off, or mice scurrying around after the kitchen lights were turned on at night, or if they played & marched like a traditional sane college-band (Dont mean to offend any LSJUMB members, but I just wonder if maybe our current band could do 1/2 the games as a traditional marching band, & the other half as the irreverent band, just to make sure some Athletes and students who like great marching bands that march in unison aren't turned off from coming to Stanford)

• If the student body took pride in calling themselves 'Nerds' ?


Just wondering ....

In 1942, there would have been no Japanese students allowed.  Minority students (black, Jewish, Latino, etc.) were few and far between.  People were still dying of polio, influenza, diptheria, etc.  I'm guessing university enrollment everywhere was lower due to wartime enlistment, and that affected the competitive landscape.  Hank Luisetti, of Stanford basketball fame, suffered a bout of near-fatal spinal meningitis that prevented him from playing professionally for the Knicks (or any team ever again) in 1946.

In 1949 Wallace Sterling became president (1949–1968) and he oversaw the rise of Stanford from a regional university to one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. Before the 1950s many regarded Stanford as being "a college for the children of wealthy parents".

https://www.proquest.com/docview/1435607944

Basically, Stanford in 1942 was SMU right about now (or some years prior to their ACC membership).

There should be no wistful longing to return to Stanford of 1942, nor should that time be held as a standard for Stanford of today.