Box 26
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Correspondence, 1865-03-10 - 1865-03-17
File — Box: 26, Folder: 2
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March 11, 1865. W.A. Woodward to Ezra Cornell:
"I should feel delighted to have my name connected in the humblest way with the Cornell University. The question "Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are" see Job 38:35 is solved in our day to a good purpose. It is a happy thought thus to telegraph one's name to posterity, to be able to say to future ages "Here we are." while the lightnings are sent abroad from this institution through its pupils."
March 12,...
Dates:
1865-03-10 - 1865-03-17
Correspondence, 1865-03-18 - 1865-03-24
File — Box: 26, Folder: 3
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March 18, 1865. F.M. Finch to Ezra Cornell:
"On my return I was in the train thrown from the track near Susquehannah. We were running forty miles an hour and struck a broken rail. The two rear cars were thrown from the track down an embankment & ours dragged over the ties against a wood pile & yet we escaped. Some evil angels hang over my visits to Albany."
March 20, 1865. Ezra Cornell to W.A. Woodward:
"It is the telegraph that endows the University?It is my desire to secure still...
Dates:
1865-03-18 - 1865-03-24
Correspondence, 1865-03-25 - 1865-03-31
File — Box: 26, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
March 29, 1865. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell:
"Tremain addressed the committee two hours yesterday PM in favor of C. University -- made a splendid argument. Comt adjourned to 3 1/2 this PM to hear oposition. This delay of time is outrageous. It may defeat us."
Topics: New York State Legislature: legislation, letters from constituents and others; Cornell University: founding legislation; letters of support for the passage of the "Cornell University" bill; agriculture
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Dates:
1865-03-25 - 1865-03-31
Correspondence, 1865-04-01 - 1865-04-09
File — Box: 26, Folder: 5
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April 1, 1865: F.M. Finch to Ezra Cornell:
"This week I received a telegram from Senator White threatening to drop the bill if a delegation did not appear. I think five or six will be there. I have spared Boardman with great difficulty: I must now do his work & mine too but I have told him to stay till the last minute you desire."
April 7, 1865. Elizabeth Blackwell to Ezra Cornell:
"My attention has been called to a newspaper paragraph which mentions your wish to form a Medical College...
Dates:
1865-04-01 - 1865-04-09