Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Learned, eager Senator White gave $300,000 and undertook to be the first president. He and Ezra Cornell agreed that the starting point of a college in rural New York should be agriculture and that the curriculum should branch out later so that "any person can find instruction in any study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part...
Another provision upon which Co-founder Cornell insisted?one more cause of opposition in the "burnt-over district"* ?was that the university should be a place "where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the teeth of booming gales of religion as well as pedantry to bring to Ithaca such outside figures as James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore William Dwight, Goldwin Smith, as lecturers...
...having left his mark indelibly upon Cornell?, President White went to Germany as U. S. Minister. In a like capacity he went to Russia in 1892. There began a tradition. Cornell's second president, Charles Kendall Adams, administered from 1885 to 1892. Then came Jacob Gould Schurman. In 1899, Dr. Schurman was chief of the first U. S. Commission to the Philippines. In 1912-13 he served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro. After resigning from Cornell in 1920, he was U. S. Ambassador to China. Now, since 1925, he has been a successor to Co-Founder White...
...more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty...
...number of years (the number differing in various states). "Laches," which may be a defense where the Statute does not apply, means "undue delay in asserting a right, or in claiming or asking for a privilege." In deciding for the Negro Shriners, the venerable justices pointed out that the White Shriners had been guilty of "long and obvious lapses." While Negro Shriners strutted, rejoiced over their victory, White Shriners were also rejoicing-for other reasons. They had just completed a week of convening in Los Angeles. It was their fifty-fifth annual convention; approximately 100,000 White Shriners had gathered...