Is the story of the Stanford couple being rejected by Harvard . . . - 知乎 The story goes that the president of Harvard, who was rebuffed by their offer of money for the university (to be given in memory of their son, Leland Jr ), then went west and founded Leland Stanford Junior University Leland Stanford Junior was just short of his 16th birthday when he died of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy on March 13, 1884
大学英文校名到底是「University of 地名」，还是「地名 + university」？ 北京大学前身京师大学堂（「Imperial University of Peking」）已使用「Peking」拼写。 1912年民国政府将其更名为「国立北京大学」时，英文名一度定为「National University of Peking」，但最终回归简洁的「Peking University」——这不仅是拼音问题，更是对百年学术品牌的坚守。