The sun., 1919-06-23
STATUE OF CORNELL
UNVEILED AT ITHACA
Daughter Of University's
Founder Joins in Semi
Centennial Event.
seecial pespatoA % tn. suN.

ITHACA, June s2.--A statue os Ezra
Cornell, who founded Cornell University
Just nifty years ago. was unveiled to-day
by Miss Mary Cornell. his daughter. the
elimination Of q week of semi-centen-
NAL celebration.
and universities immortaliso men," said
President Schurman. after paying tri-
butte to the qualities Of the founder OF
the university. ''who knows anything
Of John Harvard or Eiihu Yalef Yet
through the institutions they founded
their names arc giorified and their fame
transmitted and extended from genera
ton to generation.
"The problems which weigh upon us
to-day with such ominous gravity began
TO emerge soon after the close of the
civil war. And Ezra Cornell. am per-
suaded. has shown us the only way Of
solving them. These problems Of ours
grow out Of the private appropriation Of
the natural resources Of the country,
out Of individual ownership Of the In
strumentalities of transportation and
communication. out OF the application OF
science and invention and concentrated
organization. out Of the production and
distribution Of economic commodities.
out OF the conflict between labor and
capital, out OF an ever Increasing do
mand for greater equality in the distri-
button of economic commoditles, out of
resentment at the sight OF an ostenta-
tious and wasteful luxury which makes
poverty doubly bitter, out OF a class
consciousness OF political power and n
.f ovaH
murder has established Bolshevism In
Russia and now threatens to Bolshevizc
the whole Of Europe, and out OF host
Of old ideas and new conditions. radical
and revolutionary, with which the world
Is in ferment.
EZRA Cornell was standing model
of American citizenship. Would the
poor man better his condition? Let
him follow the path OF industry. integ-
rity and Improvement trod by the poor
man, Ezra Cornell. And what better
exemplar can be held up to the CAPT
talist than this American who brought
science and invention to the help of
industry and commerce. who enriched
society by . great constructive enter-
prise?
"The inequality of wealth Il inevi-
table, human nature being what II IL,
under any Imaginable organization OF
society. But accumulated wealth must
do its duty or those that have little
| or nothing will want to eaualize, even
by measures OF violence, mistaken
and ultimately suicidal as such meas
ures are
Prof. T. F. Crane delivered an appre-
/ citation of Ezra Cornells character
"The trait of Mr.. CorneHs character
| to which we owe most to-day" said
Prof. Crane, was his gift of imagina-
tion-zI mean that power OF material
ising his hopes and purposes and seeing
wildly their fulilment even in the mids'
of disappointments and apparent fail
ures"
Prof Crane read an appreciation Of
Mr.. Cornell by Andrew d. White. a
/ part of which was: "of all the mer
| in the country who had to do with
the college land grant OF 1859 he alon,
| discerned the possibilities involved ant
| had courage to make them actual. HI
sought no reputation as a philanthropist
cared little for approval and nothing
| for applause. but ! can say of him. with
| ont reserve. that during all tho years
knew him, he went about doing good