...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...

...models. iVe .. amounting to more than $500,000, have been bestowed npon the university. All persons nver 16 years of age, qualified to pass the prescribed...being to "found an institution where any person can iiml instruction in any study." In 1872 the •mivfrsity accepted the offer of $250,000 made •>y...

...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...

...name that must always be mentioned with pride by Americans, used that now famous expression, "I will found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." This could as well apply to a library as to a university. "The library is the best university, for...

...Gifts of various kinds, including collections, money for building purposes, machinery, models, &c., amounting to more than $500,000, have been bestowed...offer of $250,000 made by Henry W. Sage of Brooklyn, NY, for the establishment in connection with the university of an institution for the education of...

...the founder of Cornell University was expressed by himself on one occasion in these words: " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." This comprehensive declaration, terse in words and pregnant with ideas, was chosen by the trustees...

...attained, not all of it. Ezra Cornell proclaimed the purpose of his University thus : "I would," said he, "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The aspiration was grand, but impossible. It came from the heart, not the head. It was the utterance...

...filing into their relative positions and feeling their interaction. The large purpose of Ezra Cornell, to " found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," looks to the future with hope of a generous fulfilment. But what, now, more definitely, is that hope's...

...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.' " In the inaugural address of President White, who, from the beginning, was foreordained to execute the...

...other words, have been accepted as characteristic of the main idea of Cornell University : " I would found an institution where any person can find, instruction in any study." But those words, pregnant as they are with meaning, are vastly more significant when taken in connection...