CORNELL UNIVERSITY, a non sectarian, coeducational institution, at Ithaca, N. Y., owing its origin to the Land Grant Act of Congress of 1862. It is named in honor of the late Ezra Cornell, who promised the State $500,000 with which to erect buildings for the new university, the terms of the land grant forbidding the use of its proceeds for that particular purpose, on condition that it should be located at Ithaca. His gifts amounted in all, however, to about $750,000. The University received be sides Mr. Cornell's endowment, 990,000 acres of public domain, and large gifts from Henry W. Sage for a women's dor mitory, a chapel, a library, a school of philosophy, a museum of archmology, etc., all generously endowed, John Mc Graw for a building devoted to museums and scientific laboratories, Hiram Sibley for a college of mechanical engineering and mechanic arts, Andrew D. White a priceless historical library, etc., Hiram W. Sibley for extending and enlarging the Sibley College of Mechanical Engi neering, Dean Sage a fund for supplying the college pulpit, etc., A. S. Barnes a Christian Association building, William H. Sage for the chapel organ, the pur chase of the great Zarncke library, a stone bridge, and in conjunction with Dean Sage, an endowed infirmary for sick students, Oliver H. Payne for the
Cornell Medical College, and others. The total invested funds in 1920 were $17, 875,436 and the total income for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, was $4,031,923. On the occasion of the Uni versity's semi-centennial celebration in June, 1919, the trustees began a cam paign for new endowment and up to Jan. 1, 1921, had obtained cash and pledges amounting to about $6,000,000. The library comprised 610,000 volumes. The instructing staff numbered about 700. The total attendance at the end of 1920 was 5,176. There were about 25, 000 graduates. The University annually grants free tuition to 600 students of New York State, also to students in Agriculture, and to New York State stu dents in Forestry and Veterinary Medi cine. There are numerous university undergraduate and graduate scholar ships. The president in 1920 was Jacob Gould Schurman, who, after having served since 1892, resigned in June, 1920.