Palo Alto, 33 m. SE. of San Francisco; is the seat of a remarkable university founded by Senator Stanford, and opened in 1891, to provide instruction, from the Kindergarten stage to the most advanced and varied, to students and pupils boarded on the premises; of these there were 1000 in 1897.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Palmy`ra * Paludan-Müller, Frederick