Although Cornell, like most universities at the time, had no anthropology department, its president, Livingston Farrand, had previously held appointment as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University.
Хотя в Корнелле, как и в большинстве университетов того времени, не было отделения антропологии, ее президент Ливингстон Ферран ранее занимал пост профессора антропологии в Колумбийском университете.