Here is an excellent 1940 "Quad" Stanford University yearbook With Dust Jacket: Societies, Sports, Activities, Pre-War, Interment Camps Were Coming, JFK Was Enrolled For MBA. Here is an excellent 1940 "Quad" Stanford University yearbook. Near mint condition, but for edge tears and light shelf wear on dust jacket. 444 pages, all glossy, linen cover, 9" X 12" and weighs over six pounds! A tome and a time capsule, for sure. This publication was traditionally produced by students and contains an exhaustive presentation of every kind of student organization, activity, committee, and ad hoc group imaginable on a campus including Military Field Day, Sadie Hawkins Day, Sun-Tan Days, Boxing, Fencing, Archery, and Polo Teams, etc. (all of which continue to function at some level).

INTERESTING FACTOIDS: 1940 is the year that JFK was briefly enrolled in the MBA program (but it is said he did not finish out the year.) Jackie Robinson (a student-athlete at UCLA) is named in a summary of a basketball game (naming an opponent is rare). Four women (of 48) were enrolled in the Medical School; no males were in the Nursing School. Stanford football coach Clark Shaughnessy introduced the radically new "T formation." Slide rules were being offered for sale in the back page advertisements. However, WWII would soon be the dominating force on campus: the Army Special Training Program and Women’s Army Corps took over campus and math and engineering classes became overcrowded. By the fall of 1943, more than 3,000 student-soldiers were on the Farm, filling dormitories and fraternity houses. Meanwhile, engagement and wedding announcements appeared daily. 

DOWN ON THE FARM