History of the School of Humanities and Sciences
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1891
Stanford University officially opens. Among its founding departments are Chemistry,
Drawing, English Language and Literature, Germanic Languages, Greek, History,
Latin, Mathematics, Philosophy (Ethics), Physics, Political Science, Psychology,
and Romance Languages.
1892
The Hopkins Marine Station is established and becomes the first marine laboratory
on the Pacific Coast and the second such facility in the United States.
Economics and Sociology join Political Science and become the Department of Economics and Social Science.
Drawing is reorganized into Drawing and Painting.
1894
Founded with the University in 1891 the Leland Stanford Junior Museum opens
to the public as one of the largest museums in the United States.
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1908
Drawing and Painting becomes Graphic Arts.
1912
Economics becomes a separate department.
1915
Graphic Arts moves to the Education Division.
1918
Political Science regains its status as an independent department.
1920
Professor of History Yamato Ichihashi, one of the first scholars of Japanese
descent to teach in the United States, is appointed to Stanford's first
endowed professorship, The Chair in Japanese History and Civilization.
1921 to 1940 
