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Like most of the State-supported universities, Cornell began with the Morrill Act of 1862, a Federal land-grant law which afforded sites to all States with gumption sufficient to erect their own places of higher education. The youngest member of the New York State Senate in 1864 was Andrew Dickson White, then 32. Among the elder Senators was a man whom Senator White described as "tall, spare and austere; with a kindly eye, saying little and that dryly. He did not appear unamiable but there seemed in him an aloofness; this was Ezra Cornell...
...Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part of Cornell University. But only about one-fifth of the total enrolment are students at these colleges, where tuition is free to bona fide residents of the state of New York. The rest are in colleges of Arts & Sciences, Law. Engineering, Medicine, Architecture and a Graduate College...
...Italian Laborer Antonio Comincio died in New York City. During 42 years in the U. S. he had saved up $900 but had not become a U. S. citizen. He left no heirs, no will. Under U. S. law, e tates of all persons dying under such conditions become the property of the State in which they...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...