A Story Historical of Cornell University; With Biographies of Distinguished Cornellians (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Alma Mater, thine the glory Pioneer in college ways, Honored ever be the story Of the struggling early days. ?J. L. Mofpatt, '73. Within my heart the longings swell, That I thy praises loud might tell, Thou who so proudly lookest down Upon the peaceful lake and town. Good night Good night Our fair Cornell, May peace forever with thee dwell, And ne'er misfortune frown. ?R. T. N. The Founder Bountiful heart ?bountiful hand Bountiful heart and hand ?F. M. Finch. Our noble founder, Ezra Cornell, was of New England Quaker ancestry. His parents were poor, and he had to make his own way in the world. By his native genius, and hard work, he acquired great wealth from his connection with the Morse telegraph interests. He had long cherished the project of founding a University, where the youth of the land could obtain a better education than he had received in his own boyhood. He expressed his ideas in his own happily-chosen words: I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study. This became the motto of the new university. He became a senator of the State of New York, in 1864. Andrew D. White was a colleague and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education. In him our future founder found a sympathetic listener, and from that time forward they held many conferences. Ezra Cornel proposed the material side and Andrew D. White the soul of a bill to charter the new university, and, after it was drafted by Charles J. Folger, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, it was submitted to the Legislature. That body was hostile to the new project, the only opposition coming from The Peoples College, at Havana, N. Y., some other feeble colleges, and from denominational colleges, that regarded the propo...