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" I hope that 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... "
"True and Firm.": Biography of Ezra Cornell, Founder of the Cornell University - Page 199
by Alonzo B. Cornell - 1884 - 322 pages
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The Cornell Era, Volume 39

College student newspapers and periodicals - 1906 - 562 pages
...with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the fariiis, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations...to reach such a state of perfection as will enable anyone by honest efforts and earnest labor to secure a thorough, practical, scientific or classical...
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The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, Volume 5

Education - 1868 - 516 pages
...practical knowledge and high mental culture as the limited means of the humble can command. I trust that we have made the beginning of an institution...poor young women of our country. This is one thing we have not finished ; but more and more we hope to perfect until the young men of honest efforts and...
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Pennsylvania School Journal, Volume 17

Education - 1868 - 398 pages
...knowledge and high mental culture asthelimitj ed means of the humble can command. I trust that we i have made the beginning of an institution which will...young men and the poor young women of our country. Tim is one thing we have not finished; but more and more we hope to perfect until the young men of...
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A Memorial Address, Delivered in Library Hall, January 11th, 1875, "Founder ...

Rufus Phineas Stebbins - 1875 - 50 pages
...knowledge and mental culture on such terms as the limited means of the most humble can command; to found an institution which will prove highly beneficial to the poor young men and poor young women of the country." Nor did he desire to promote the interests of mining, and farming,...
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Cornell University, a History, Volume 1

Waterman Thomas Hewett - 1905 - 576 pages
...wishes were. In his address at the opening of the university he had distinctly stated: " I believe we have made the beginning of an institution which...prove highly beneficial to the poor young men and poor young women of our country." Mr. Cornell paid a beautiful tribute to his wife and to her share...
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Ezra Cornell Centennial Number

1907 - 134 pages
...and mental culture, on such terms as the limited means of the most humble can command. I hope that we have laid the foundation of an institution which...to reach such a state of perfection as will enable anyone by honest efforts and earnest labor to secure a thorough, practical, scientific or classical...
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Great American Universities

Edwin Emery Slosson - Universities and colleges - 1910 - 640 pages
...should be "on such terms as the limited means of the most humble could afford." And, again: — " I hope we have made the beginning of an institution which...young men and the poor young women of our country." His words, which form the motto on the seal of the university, "I would found an institution where...
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A History of Cornell

Morris Bishop - Education - 1962 - 692 pages
...Johnson, in the Ithaca Journal for 8 Oct. 1893. A copy is in the Van Cleef Scrapbook, CU Archives. an institution which shall combine practical with...young men and the poor young women of our country." Thus he put on record his intention to admit women. He pointed out the services to agriculture of the...
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Women at Cornell: The Myth of Equal Education, Volume 10

Charlotte Williams Conable - Education - 1977 - 218 pages
...not only liberal education but practical education as well. Of even greater significance, he said, "I believe that we have made the beginning of an institution...prove highly beneficial to the poor young men and poor young women of our country." I? Like Cornell, Andrew D. White had long considered coeducation...
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The Individual, Society, and Education: A History of American Educational Ideas

Clarence J. Karier - Education - 1986 - 492 pages
...of science, and for mastering all the practical questions of life with success and honor. I believe we have made the beginning of an institution which...young men and the poor young women of our country ... as will enable any one by honest efforts and earnest labor, to secure a thorough, practical, scientific...
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