New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
A CORNELL CENTENNIAL.
Not of University, but Of Birth Of
Founder To Dedicate buildings.

dedicate the new buildings of the New York
State College of Agriculture, which are just
being completed at n cost of upward of $3.50 600
Among the prominent men who will deliver ad-
dresses are Governor Hughes formerly a pro-
fessOr in the Cornell Law School; Andrew Car
negie who is a member of the board of univer-
slty trustees and DR.. Andrew Dixon White first
president Of Cornell and a former United States
Ambassador to Germany. The university's de-
partment of music Will also present its annual
music festival, participated in by a chorus of
more than two hundred voices, assisted by the
Boston Festival Orchestra Of fifty pieces, under
the direction of Emil Mollenhauer, and by many
soloists
As the Cornell campus possesses no audito-
rum sufficiently large to accommodate the
crowds which will attend the celebrations, a big
tent has been secured for the occasion capable
Of holding almost five thousand persons This
will be erected on the drill grounds adjacent to
the gymnasium. where the smaller meetings will
be held Seats being constructed for
the use OF the audience, while large platform
viii accommodate the members of the faculty.
the speakers and the board OF trustees Cornell
banners and emblens will decorate the interior
Of the canvas
On Friday afternoon a parade of students will
De held on the campus in which every college
OF the university will be represented In this
procession the ideal Of Cornell so often ex
pressed in the words of its founder 81 would
found an institution where any person can find
instruction in any study will be tvpi6ed The
Colleges of Arts and Sciences Mechanical and
Civil Engineering. Law. Medicine. Agriculture.
Veterinary Medicine and Architecture will march
IN the order of their foundation at Cornell Ban
ners and emblems sgnifying the work Of each
college viii be carried
On SATURDAY. ,F.o-,-a-
the New York State College Of Agriculture will
be dedicated Governor Hughes will make tn,
address OF the afternoon and formally present
the buildings to the university They will ae
accepted by President Jacob Gould Schurrnan.
Throughout the celebration the nervad,pe
spirit will be that OF Ezra Cornell. who believed
that If institution were TO grow il mus, b
nee from the rule Of any religious creed and
although, as a result Cornell was for many
years known as "the Goddess college" and rs
hrst years were a period OF storm and tumuH
sun the founders idea has triumphed and the
vindication Of his policy IS seen to-day in the
position Of Cornell University among the ingti-
tutions Of learning in the New World
Born in the valley OF the Hudson a century
ago this year. Ezra Cornell outgrew the ordinary
country schools and spent much of his time In
study at home. Later he became a carpenter
hHu Dult the FAMILY nome, then the finest IN
the village OF his birth. When eighteen years
old he left home in search OF work, and. wan
der1ng along the Erie Canal as a carpenter he
aided the contractor who laid the first line OF
telegraph ever attempted and he invented a
machine for digging and filing the conduit
bitches where the wires were then laid. Later
IL was young Cornell who devised the method
OF strnging wires poles. and for this in
Tenton and idea he secured an interest In the
telegraph business and was able TO retire at
Ahe age Of fifty and spend the remainder OF his
life in rendering service to humanity
Cornell University was founded as a result
of the union Of the resources of Ezra Cornell
and large grant Of land from the United
States government 10 the State Of New York
that was used FOR its establishment on April
p. 1860, Cornell University was incorporated
by the New York State Legislature. and It WIS
contribution to the university was 5000 two
hundred acres Of land, with useful buildings, and
several smaller gifts for special purposes His
largest contribution, however. came from the
profits made by the university on the land scrip
purchased by him from the state
The College of Agriculture was founded from
the land grant of 1862 for the establishment OF
state institutions for instruction in agriculture
and the mechanic arts This grant marked one
Of the greatest epochs in the history Of educa-
ton, since ii provided for a system Of educa-
ton that had direct and definite relations with
the daily work Of yUbO q