Founding of Cornell University Essay

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Andrew Dickson White

According to the "Office of the President" of Cornell University in New York State, when Andrew Dickson White and Ezra Cornell met in the New York State Senate, "A radical idea in American Education was born…" (Cornell). That radical idea was to create a "truly great university" that would do this: "Afford an asylum for Science -- where truth shall be taught for truth's sake…" (Cornell). White had served as a diplomat and an educator at the University of Michigan and Cornell had made a great deal of money developing the telegraph system (with Samuel Morse and Hiram Sibley).

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So the two had vision, money, and a plan.

White was born in 1832 in Homer, New York, on November 7. When he turned 17 White attended the Geneva (Hobart) College in western New York State, a college that had an Episcopal orientation. Apparently White did not appreciate the religious aspects of this educational institution so he dropped out and attended Yale instead, graduating in 1853 (Britannica). He and a….....

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