"True and Firm.": Biography of Ezra Cornell, Founder of the Cornell UniversityA. S. Barnes & Company, 1884 - 322 pages |
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Page 187 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 216 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
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Page 204 - I will ask you to be true to yourselves. In Heaven's name, be men. Is it not time that some poor student traditions be supplanted by better ? You are not here to be made ; you are here to make yourselves.
Page 199 - I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall combine practical with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the farms, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations of science, and for mastering all the practical questions of life with success and honor.
Page 316 - Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds ; no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here. While angels watch the soft repose. 3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying Son Passed...
Page 201 - ... better, preparing them to serve society better, training them to be more useful in their relations to the state and to better comprehend their higher and holier relations to their families and their God. It shall be our aim and our constant effort to make true Christian men without dwarfing or paring them down to fit the narrow guage of any sect. "Finally, I trust we have laid the foundation of an university — 'an institution where any person can find instruction in any study...
Page 159 - I have invited you to assemble this evening to witness the consummation of a long-cherished purpose — the establishment of a public library in the village of Ithaca, the use of which shall be free to all residents of the County of Tompkins, an institution which I trust will be found useful in increasing the knowledge and elevating the moral and religious standard of the people. It may not be deemed improper on an occasion like this to refer briefly to the history of the progress of the undertaking...
Page 200 - ... The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better, for the culture of the citizen ; therefore, we desire to extend the means for the culture of all. I trust that we have made the beginning of an institution that shall bring science more directly to the aid of agriculture, and the other branches of productive labor. Chemistry has the same great stores of wealth in reserve for agriculture that it has lavished so profusely upon the arts. We must instruct the young farmer how to...
Page 292 - I lauded in America, a few weeks ago, I have had my eyes opened to a great many things, but I must say I have seen nothing which, perhaps, astonished and even startled me, more than I have seen in Ithaca. I will not say Cornell University alone; there is something I admire even more than the University, and that is the quiet, unpretending man by whom the University was founded.