page_title: Jacob Gould Schurman
section_title: International career
hierarchical_section_title: Jacob Gould Schurman / International career
caption_attribution_description: English: Original Cornerstone of Shanghai American Club
context_page_description: Jacob Gould Schurman was a Canadian-born American educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany.
context_section_description: He was chairman of the First United States Philippine Commission in 1899, and wrote (besides a part of the official report to Congress) Philippine Affairs--A Retrospect and an Outlook (1902). With J. E. Creighton and James Seth he founded in 1892 The Philosophical Review. He also wrote Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution (1881); The Ethical Import of Darwinism (1888); Belief in God (1890), and Agnosticism and Religion (1896).
  Schurman served as United States Ambassador to Greece in 1912–13, Minister to China between 1921 and 1925, and then as Ambassador to Germany between 1925 and 1929, a position twice previously held by Cornell's first president Andrew Dickson White. In 1917 Schurman was appointed honorary chairman of the American Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, an organization which provided humanitarian relief to Ottoman Greeks during the Greek genocide. He retired to Bedford Hills, New York in 1930.
  In 1960, Cornell named the administrative wing of its veterinary school Jacob Gould Schurman Hall in his honor.
caption: The cornerstone of the Shanghai American Club laid by Schurman in 1924
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