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From the bronze dedicatory plaque in the
Crothers Memorial lobby. Viewed April 6, 2010. The plaque reads as follows: "CROTHERS MEMORIAL HALL / Opened September 24, 1955 / This residence hall for Stanford University engineering students / erected in memory of / MARGARET JANE CROTHERS / was made
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Crothers set up a law practice with his brother, Thomas—also a
Stanford graduate and a lawyer—and became a close adviser to Jane Stanford. Together with his brother, Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully
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Berg, Jerry E. (ed.) (April 1963). "A legal history of the titles, trusts and organization of the Leland
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Crothers established a scholarship fund for
Stanford law students in 1912. In 1929, he established an annual prize fund for literary composition at the University of California. A set of
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housing in 2009. The name "Crothers
Memorial" is commonly abbreviated to "Cro Mem" — a short form which was the inspiration for the early personal computer company
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made possible the construction of two student residences on the
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possible by the gifts from one of her six sons / JUDGE GEORGE E. CROTHERS / a member of the Class of 1895 and lifelong benefactor / of his alma mater".
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wrote, "Judge George E. Crothers was my good friend in bad times and in good times for over sixty years".
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in memory of the judge's mother. These two residences were extensively renovated and converted into
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in 1911. They were unable to have children, and
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