...treated as men and citizens. " I will not ask you," says President White, addressing the students, " to be true to us. I will ask you to be true to yourselves....to make yourselves. You are not here to hang upon a university; you are here to help build up a university. This is no place for children's tricks and...

...will not ask you to be true to us," President White said at the opening of Cornell University in 1868. "I will ask you to be true to yourselves. In Heaven's...you are here to make yourselves. You are not here to bans? upon a university ; you are here to help build a university. This is no place for children's...

...they must give place en masse to those who can." And in his Inaugural Address he adjured the students: "In Heaven's name be men. Is it not time that some...here to be made; you are here to make yourselves. . . . This is no place for children's tricks and toys, for exploits which only excite the wonderment...