Cornell: Glorious to View

by Walter F. LaFeber, Carol Kammen, Walter LaFeber

Book Overview

The steep hills and dramatic gorges of Ithaca were the setting for a revolution in American education when, in the 1860s, a self-made man sought "to do the most good... to the poor and to posterity." Ezra Cornell's philanthropy, enhanced with funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act and enlarged by the vision of educator Andrew Dickson White, created what has been called the first American university--'a modern, democratic, research-oriented institution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093599503X
• ISBN13: 9780935995039
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Library
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher