New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-27
00ggELL CELEBRATES
r,r.f.n:ai % Founder's Birth O5-
ssvs6--Or. P1hitc's address.

-. a = Apr, S--Tf3a double centennial
80 az ne Cornell Er,laetlrs eegan this morn
-, ar-no=v WIS crowded with members OF
- -avsrs.ey 9 TznTn't., I; havlus beer necessary
-, 81 o.nsr inK ;satorE because % cha Hood
f,ns7ni Fself. Ts@osri-s tire great ten. which
- -, esstly Yu-crao,s6 3uteraole FFalg az -.
- 90 sse- sEa6 ogeTe6 xi;h seats and the resi-
- % gtana,@E reOIn- Presideu. scharrnan
ass6 A-ns1g ;hcss seated were mem osrs Of
- sr,nsOrg SHratiy The 3oei: anniversary Of whose
.,~7szy the university Is elahoratsiy cslsbrat-
-. fts trustees OF tAe university and the pro-
s,.o-s. Instructors ana part az the senior class
=. Rsv. Charles Mellen Tyler, retired professor
. trFist!gn ethics. opened the exercises with
.-,x,r eae the student body sang Alma Mater"
z-rray yuegO Charles II. Blood, of tho class OF IS
80 Ia address OF Andrew ChTaasio on behalf OF
=. trustees SIT. Carnegie was unable 20 he pres
r, ssosuse o. ~ health.
n, sadrsw D. White che arst president ~ Car
81 University. delivered address on .he rse
~ snG character OF Ezra Cornell He empha-
,~,s8 re founders fidelity 10 duty, loyalty 70
i-rth. BIS SsipfEiAsEs, foTgstfuinsss OF self ana
.,Tsssuszs 20 labor steadily Sor tho accomplish
asrs 81 kik great purpose through good and evil
.sbov1 Sc pointed oEt the foresight with which
W rorneI sksok aft fha sid shacklss OF schol-
,r5,ra a!i FsnagalEs6 she value os seiehea l.era-
,rrs and art ana his prsaautiah that the
,-hssitv sAeu.d rot "a! under Esssag!an control
81 o5rssE, sas speaker said, had unesunded
40 N te gswef NsTEsHg Cor righteousness in the
sS,x-re rH6 eR5tA SNat his university SO small in
10 srsanaInR, Nauis Sr,ae tine have avs Thousand
-susgr.A ne HsasGe6 10 &ssaeks which were made
!, NJ 5u-nal o. the New York Legislature when
Az natives were .!ng7sned tolls af the eauanmitg
- whssA tie sauAdeF resolved these attacks and
IA cr-IRisse eEeReEatieA which Relieved eff
81, Investigation az his management 81 the land
rs.ut made e. AT, Corneils request In closing
a. Wh!sn sad;
af a7l.-
80 xssh rs Statue viii staRs on this h!n IN
y EaSs Rshss zee fis nam sine VII be honored here
nd seantlsss generations of students VIII do him
y Is ,.as and lived for his fellewmea.
IN a lstteF to President Schurman which was
,as to-day. President David Starr Jerdan Of Le-
ard stanford 5unisF University wrete:
n the early days Of Cornell, Willard Fiske Pun
sss5 s R egs new Founded universities at ithaca
IA AZ seFin. The University q Berlin was fuil-
sbs.atoFles, faculties and ali that makes great
G6rnci! University was scattered in the mud Of
pooF hHl farm in the edge az a country village,
sith few books, 10 Libraries. a group Of boy pro-
~ Ese years he'd s te "a 9s sSi6a fh ass !2Ps
rIsEs. who pets on the Empire state?"
rs s sss as n aes sh in presg 81 IN nS
ehe Efit faF henind IN me race bul not SO
lar Already her hold the life al real men is
Is great that Of Berlin, and the only distance
he is behind ran he measured dollar for dollar, N
and the great university of the greatest stale OF
,ur great Republic viii have 10 excuses TO make
n any one The race Is still! on. ana sim Tor
GARD We 60. We bet On the Empire state
William II Carbin. rs. ana Sherman Mereland,
o. majority .eadeF in the Assembly, spoke for the
alumni, and u, n, Taylor. president Of the senior
lass fer the undergraduates, After the singing
4 the Luther choral, 'E;n Feste Burg by the
ntirs Student body, the benediction was pro-
lounosd y tka Rev, Charles NJ, Tyler
President sshuFEan sent this telegram to-day 10
lndrsw Carnssis, thanking him for tbs founders
Estienl
The 9REtsss, faculties and students Of Cornell
University assembled n special oonvooauon 10
celebrate the 9sHenpiei af the birth Of Ezra Cor
leli, having suEt listened . your sympathetic
sassFiy nTatfea On the founder % our University,
and yeu the3F eOReFatpi atioas ard thanks, and,
rhie az fhe same time they s9Eress their deep Ee-
net that YOU could noe have been present 20 ae5
liver the address - person, eH hope that you may
0ol be restored 20 your usual good health ana en-
pg Il for many years TO coma,
The Cornell musical festival begun Tonight
9th the presentation Of Memberships Elijah in
Sage Chapel Professor Hollis L. Damn conducted
ne oratorio and the soloists included Watkins
Mns the English baFytone Alfred ouesnel, Nine
florence Milford MTs, Grace Bonner Williams and