Cornell University

Cornell University, named from its founder, Ezra Cornell (1807-74), is pleasantly situated on the outskirts of the town of Ithaca, New York, and was opened in 1868 on a thoroughly unsectarian basis. It has numerous well-appointed buildings, including Sage College, for women; the number of instructors is now over 150, and of students 1600, including 150 women. Students may provide for their support by labour on the farm, or in the machine-shops and printing establishment attached; and by the terms of its charter the university must educate, free of all fees, one student annually from each of the 128 assembly districts of the state of New York, besides providing instruction in 'agriculture and the mechanic arts,' in return for the income derived from the sale of 989,000 acres of public lands, which was transferred to it by the state. The endowment funds amount to nearly $2,500,000. Besides three general courses of four years each, in arts, literature, and science, the university provides special instruction in agriculture, architecture, chemistry, and physics, civil engineering, history, and political science; ancient, European, and oriental languages; mathematics, mechanic arts, military science and tactics, natural history, philosophy and letters, and (since 1888) journalism.