Is the story of the Stanford couple being rejected by Harvard . . . - 知乎 The account of their visit with Charles W Eliot at Harvard is actually recounted by Eliot himself in a Letter was sent to David Starr Jordan (Stanford's first president) on 1919 Jun 26 At the time the Stanfords met with Eliot, they had not yet decided whether to establish a university, a technical school, or a museum