In and out of Ithaca : a description of the village, the surrounding scenery and Cornell University . and the lockshad not yet been put on, and the sound of Greek recita-tions and the blows of the hammer resounded from ad-joining rooms. There were no walks, the ground wasrough and uneven, and the corn field still held its placeon the summit of the hill. Everything was lacking fora great University, except great men, and grand the alumni of this institution number more thana thousand, scattered over this land and almost allothers. Ten stately buildings of brick and stone, sur-round
In and out of Ithaca : a description of the village, the surrounding scenery and Cornell University . and the lockshad not yet been put on, and the sound of Greek recita-tions and the blows of the hammer resounded from ad-joining rooms. There were no walks, the ground wasrough and uneven, and the corn field still held its placeon the summit of the hill. Everything was lacking fora great University, except great men, and grand the alumni of this institution number more thana thousand, scattered over this land and almost allothers. Ten stately buildings of brick and stone, sur-rounded by a smooth and well graded campus, havesupplanted the cornfield. Rows of flourishing elms in-terlace their branches over pleasant walks and windingdrives. Nearly seven hundred students throng its halls,and are taught in all branches of human the few institutions that make American schol-arship respected every where, it occupies a foremostplace. Foreign scholars speak of it with respect, andesteem it an honor to lecture in its halls. And it has s 4 Co ft. to ft, r rj < ft. -v. THENEV v\ PUBLIC J *stor, Ll Foi 1907 __: CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 23 exercised an influence upon higher education in Americathat words cannot express. The history of educationshows no parallel to the growth and development of thisUniversity. What are the secrets of this growth ? We shall find an adequate explanation for the successof Cornell University in the men who have built it, andin the foundations upon which they built. Ezra Cor-nells heart and hand, and Andrew D. Whites heartand brain, are wrought into its very texture. It wasnot alone Ezra Cornells gift of money, and devotion tothe care of the University funds that constituted his in-estimable service in its advancement, but it was evenmore the broad and liberal foundations upon which hewould have it built. Andrew D. White lent to thework a wide experience in other institutions of learning,a breadth and catholicity of culture seld
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