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TOMPKIXS COUNTY Navigating A Sea Oe Ri:souiu:es PUBLIC LIBRARY Title: Ithaca, N.Y. as a city of residence and manufacture / Issued under the auspices of the Elmira, Cortland and Northern R.R. comp. Author: Miller, J.A. , Call number: LH-REF 974.771 Publisher: J.A. Miller, 1891. Owner: Ithaca - Tompkins County Public Library Assigned Branch: Ithaca - Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) Collection: Local History (LH) Material type: Book Number of pages: 43 p : ill. Digitization of this material was made possible with a 2009 grant from the Park Foundation 3> fc-1 JT UJ ? b-1 Ln JT UJ LH-REF 974.771 Miller, J.A. Ithaca, N.Y. as a city of residence and manufacture. rtw# 50MPKIN3 COUIIIZ I'JULIC LIBIURY JJBACAj, HEW X03K 14850. For Reference Not to be taken from this room %r ' IT "A "V '. '' . "^ - ' * j \ " " nf'iYrr;m 1 --" i \ BISECTED TO US, AfflM FOE BOTTOM PRICE CH All *.e .,-. X.',. i\ /:*= Mi! i 1 ' f | * INFORMATION ON Ain SIZE EMNE OS BOILER MOIJ TWO 'r,l ill mmm mm, either verticil or hoeizont^ r ; '...! TIONARY OE MODHTED, WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. t "'/$& * ' #_ -5 \ '/ \ / < Engine" Daisy Queen with Steel ^, Boilers. .*.-:-> rom Twu to Six Horse Power, -i^-.'iv^ Either Stationary or Mounted ,N * on two or four wheels. For r / M/. \ '/' ' 1 < Vv,^srsP''- vr * duality of Material, Work -_ M ti* ' * i 'I manship, Economy and Dura //I ^f^ [ / bility, the " Daisy Ctueeii " is .a iTTf^S-S.- without a Absolutely Peer. -**.' "Forest Cit" Traction Engine." ', RSYMOLDS St LHNG,ithhch,n.y. MM' S?; "SK .'pS MBSgH ^3. S % -j % fîAASifiifttl ^ fc'S A. M. HULL, Proprietor. 02^ -n^v<E^V2Nr"C7Zri^.CrT1"vlJ^,3Z:i^ pii'WT* ";7 k *l "'PTV.. c^Tî %tT#^5i W^\ i -V- j) !l vuv i. î 1 v >tL/ : ^fMrMc-M^'/^rjisWMuar.iKK^.îi3i3nan.^p wi i i i hi i n iiiihiiiiiiiiiii I i n ! i iiiiiii iihiimil. our brand 'OUR BRAND: /Fancy Patent. 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No claim for originality is advanced, our object being to present a complete resume of the healthy condition of commerce and traffic and the flourishing condition of the manufacturing, banking, wholesale and retail houses, and trade circles generally, together with interesting reading matter pertaining to the early events of the city, the advantages of TT" T"1 "* TT* f~T* "i"*irT flTl Ct T PfTTir F<! \J rv lilt luiitul lull SIM VL HiU /\ AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER, As well as Engravings of Prominent Business Men, Public Buildings, Factories, Scenery, Etc, 3ssue5 unbcr the Ctusptces of tf?c lmira, (c rtlanb & llortr]crn H. H. CO^PIL-ED OV J. H. 7VHLJLER, PUBLISHED BY Publishers of Reviews J. A. MILLER & -CO, pities of f\r~> ?ri<;a. AUGUST, 1891. Ceadir>^ TOMPKiNS COUNTY TELEGRAM CO., PRINTERS, ELMIRA, ~. Y. PUBLIC LIBRA* 312 NORTH CAYUGA STREET IT4HACA. NEW YORK 14850 BIRDSÊ VIEW OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY. VIEW OF CAYUGA LAKE FROM THE CASCADILLA SCHOOL ATHLETIC FIELD. See page 15. CORNELL UNIVERSITY. suppliment the grant with Mr. George William Curtis relates that one day tution at Ithaca, he would of dollars. This proposition in 1861 he was sitting in the study of Professor a gift of half a million accepted. There were some who Andrew D. White, at the University of Michigan, could not at once be colleges in the state was and that in the course of a conversation explaining believed that the number of and there were the nature and characteristics of already enough, that institution, Professor White others who maintained that a good would result from a said to him that there ought to he greater of the colleges a great university organized on a reinforcing already these antagon somewhat similar plan in central in existence ; but could not be New York. This historical scholar istic views speedily together. The after then went on to relate how, in his brought result, two years of heated discus opinion, the colleges of the Empire nearly was the acceptance of Mr. state fell very far short of accom sion, Cornell's and the plishing whatWas called for bythe proposition, adop charter of Cornell Uni demands of the hour. This conver tion of the versity. This instrument bears sation is of historical interest, be-. of April and the cause it reveals the factthat several date 27, 1865, was opened years before Cornell University University formally Ttli of 1S0S. The was founded the ideas that ulti on the October, favor with which this new enter mately entered into it were even received the public - prise was -then somewhat fully matured. -In by immediate and emphatic. The 1863, Professor White was called was of the project had back to his former home at Syra general nature become known. One of cuse, in New York, by important generally of Mr. Cornell to the business affairs in which he was the sayings "would found anin theninterested. Atthe next election effect that he theOn-r where person could he was chosen to represent stitution any ARMORY.: instruction had ondaga district in the New York find inany and given wide-spread Senate. When the Legislature met, in January, Mr. been takenup by the newspapers consequence was that on the White, (then the youngest member) found occupying a publicity. The openingday and indeed for some days before, the seat near him, a plain, stern, farmer-like looking man, of the University, to Ithaca had been well covered with already past middle life, who bore the name of Ezra roads leading of knowledge. Not Cornell. These gentlemen had never met each other pilgrims coming to this new fount soon* hundred seekers after truth. before, but they were drawn by a common less than about six young interest into bringing all grades of close fel prep very from lowship and aration, friendship. One that given at the humblest day Mr. Cor of grammar nell said to Mr. schools to that White that he afforded the had about half by proudest acad a million of dol in the lars more than emy scrambled was necessary land, at for his family, for places the and that he opening doors of the should be glad on to know how University that October he could best day. About use the money four hundred for the good of were his fellow men. actually the It happened admitted to University. that at that The plan of or- very time the Legislature g a nization adopted the was under the by trustees gave necessity of SAGE COLLEGE. <-L.,phasis to considering education. regard to the im what be called the industri A>" o of what course should be taken in very may ^ esiah^1 ~ \^ department portant educational act of 1862, and Mr. Cornell then There was at once strong of a scbox of Civil a school came forward with a proposition that if the Legisla Agriculture, Engineering, insti- and the Mechanic Arts ture would devote the fund to the support of an of Mechanical F'-^jering u ITHACA, NEW YOKE:. and a school of Architecture. Besides these, an effort i it was the desire of the founder that co-education was made L^p.-ovHo exceptionally good facilities for should be a characteristic of the University. It was stud^* in Chemistry and m the Natural Sciences, as not, however, until 187-t that the admission of women Vv ell as in the Ancient and Modern Classics aud in His was made practicable by the erection of Sage College. tory and Political Science. A strong corps of non-resi In that year the beautiful structure was completed dentlecturers was at once secured. Professor Goldwin which has since become the delightful home of a large Smith, Regius Professor of History at Oxford, was in number of the women admitted to the University. duced to come over from England and identifiy him For the founding of the college for women Mr. Henry self with the fortunes of this new enterprise. Louis W. Sage gave a quarter of a million of dollars, about Agassiz, George William Ourtis, James Russell Low one hundred andthirty thousand of which was devoted ell and Theodore Dwight gave a valuable impulse to to the erection of the building and the remainder to its the institution by their courses of lectures during the endowment. This structure, now under the control first years after its organization. Before a single class of a business manager and a principal, is the abode of had completed its course the students numbered nearly about one hundred young women. These are admit six hundred. Since 1885, the helm of the institution ted to all the classes of the University.

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