...President White he formulated his definition of a university which has become the motto of his own: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."2 It is a curious incident that this plain man who was no scholar expressed his idea of a university...

...advice on the educational aspects. The aims of the institution are expressed in the words of Cornell: " I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Hence it was provided that students should be admitted " at the lowest rate of expense consistent with...

...Ithaca. What would be Cornell's distinctive stamp? Ezra Cornell, the plainspoken Quaker, had announced: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Yet this famous dictum, however aptly it symbolized emancipation from the fetters of the oldtime college,...

...This issue became a major rallying cry for reformers after Ezra Cornell proclaimed in 1868 that he would found an institution "where any person can find instruction in any study." " Second, "democracy" might mean equality of treatment or condition among all the students who were...

...equity as the keystone of their campaign for women's independence. L The Founders: Male and Female I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study. Cornell University Motto "Brown is agitating the question of admitting female students/' the student...

...practical, scientific or classical education.64 Cornell himself best summarized his idea when he said, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."65 The Cornell idea took higher education a great distance from the time in 1828 when Jeremiah...

...White, its first president. Cornell imparted to the new institution the spirit of his famous statement: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." And White contributed the ambition and imagination which enabled him to write, two years before he...

...College, and later to the University of Michigan, but approvingly invoked the words of Ezra Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Few Californians thought that Yale, "the Mother of Colleges," could be the "Mother of Public Universities."...

...and applied technology. By 1870 this new university, heeding the original desire of Ezra Cornell to "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," provided its more than two hundred and fifty first-year students (then the largest entering class in...

...or architects, not sweetness and light." 13 On Cornell's seal are words attributed to its founder: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study" — perhaps an idealized version of what Ezra Cornell, a blunt and down-to-earth businessman, may in...