<p>And where in the article does it say that the proposals upon submission were not equal, or that Cornell’s was better than Stanford’s initially? In fact, it implies that they weren’t - and that Cornell recruited the Technion to shore up its weaknesses and compete better with Stanford. (Cornell would never have won by itself against Stanford. It had no choice but to recruit a school like the Technion so that it could have a fighting chance.)</p>
<p>Cornell did indeed win by the time Stanford had dropped out - but that was because it had agreed to additional conditions, whereas Stanford and others didn’t. Are you ignoring this in the article?</p>