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Our attendance is much better than the typical land grant school.  In its heyday, U of Miami averaged about 41,000.

Seems to be some confusion on the Morrill Act here.
Neither Stanford nor Miami are a land grant school. I think MIT is the only land grant school, though once upon a time Yale had Connecticut's land grant.
In fact, a closer statement is that Stanford attendance is better than most (many?) non-land grant schools. Thought that isn't quite right either - for most states with two (or more) main public schools, one of them has the land grant.

The more relevant items here are,

Stanford lately is #4 among private schools in attendance, behind two religously-affilliated schools with a built-in large fan base.

And more importantly, I simply don't see the moral superiority in being a cog in a larger crowd.

[CTcard]

Our attendance is much better than the typical land grant school.  In its heyday, U of Miami averaged about 41,000.

Seems to be some confusion on the Morrill Act here.
Neither Stanford nor Miami are a land grant school. I think MIT is the only land grant school, though once upon a time Yale had Connecticut's land grant.
In fact, a closer statement is that Stanford attendance is better than most (many?) non-land grant schools. Thought that isn't quite right either - for most states with two (or more) main public schools, one of them has the land grant.

The more relevant items here are,

Stanford lately is #4 among private schools in attendance, behind two religously-affilliated schools with a built-in large fan base.

And more importantly, I simply don't see the moral superiority in being a cog in a larger crowd.