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The Cornell Era, Volume 39

College student newspapers and periodicals - 1906 - 562 pages
...the Cornell idea will the undergraduate body do honor to him who gave it distinct utterance : — " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The idea that all work done in the cause of human progress is worthy of the best and the highest is...
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Second General Announcement

Cornell University - 1868 - 38 pages
...worthy of the State. He expressed plainly and tersely the wThole University theory when he said, " / would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study" FEATURES OF THE UNIVERSITY. First. Every effort will ~be made that the education given "be practically...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 3

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...words not less memorable than was the deed of munificence by which they were accompanied, " I will found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." HL WAYLAND. KALAMAZOO COLLEGE, MICH. jsupuriljr'u':'upu^l:n-'i^^ DIFFICULTIES OF INFANT BAPTISM. IT...
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The American Colleges and the American Public

Noah Porter - Education, Higher - 1870 - 304 pages
...requirements for admission." The scope of the University is expressed in the words of Mr. Cornell : " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The features of the University are the following : the practical utility of the education and studies,...
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Friends' Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 26

Society of Friends - 1870 - 930 pages
...in the beginning, for the education of our daughters side by side with our sons, by one who said, " I would found an Institution where any person can find instruction in any study," gfrls were left out «»f the account until the Institution should be fairly under way, and now it...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 70

1902 - 1058 pages
...to the combined wisdom and bounty of the United States, the State of New York, and Ezra Cornell, who would " found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." It was incorporated April 27, 1865. Its intellectual life and organization came through the union of...
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The Maine Journal of Education, Volume 7

Education - 1873 - 474 pages
...the leading American college. Its founder well expressed the basis on which it stands when he said, 'I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.'' Its wholly unsectarian character makes it the mark for many petty flings, but this is one of its strong...
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The American Cyclopaedia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge

1874 - 810 pages
...pass the prescribed examinations as to studies, may be admitted, the purpose of the founder being to "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." In 1872 the university accepted the offer of $250,000 made by Henry W. Sage of Brooklyn, IST. Y., for...
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Annual Report of the Board of Trustees, Volumes 7-12

1878 - 900 pages
...illustrated at once the good faith and the wisdom of the State of New York. The noble motto of Cornell, " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," is a complete response to the requirements of the Nation and the State. In equally good faith, and...
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Education, Volume 32

Education - 1912 - 720 pages
...portals the founder of Cornell University left a legend which shall forever thrill the human soul: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any subject." This is a lesson in Catholicity. Their love of truth and breadth of view protect the learned...
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