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During the June week when the U. S. public is most college-conscious, Cornell stands unique in other respects besides kudos. On its hill at the tip of the biggest of western New York's Finger Lakes, it stands midway geographically, culturally, financially, between the allegedly "effete" private institutions of the East and the allegedly "crude"' State-supported institutions of the Midwest and West. Its students come from both sides of the Alleghenies. It is composed of colleges supported privately and by the State. It is a co-educational "man's college." It began with the soil and evolved...
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...
Frock-coated Ezra Cornell sat calmly while his small-bore colleagues called him "selfish" and much worse in New York's Senate for wanting to give a half-million dollars to build a college on land which the Federal Government would give away. Beside him sat his wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made...
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...
...Titus brought suit against Burnee Corp. His claim: That transfer of stock to the new company in 1915 was made without his consent and in violation of his rights. His demand: That he be given an accounting of and a share in the profits. The decision: New York Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting held that Plaintiff Titus could not share in the millions he had refused to help build up. Justice Hatting pointed out that Plaintiff Titus knew of the transfer of stock rights to the Burnee Corp., did not investigate, did nothing. Although not actually expressed, the doctrine...