...step, grade by grade — until it fulfilled the highest ideal of what a university could be. . . . Until the hour was late this young scholar dreamed aloud to me these dreams." Now, in the year 1862 an act had passed Congress for the endowment of the higher education throughout...

...intention that there should be no 1 White: My Reminiscences of Ezra Cornell, p. 7. 2 Ibid, pp. 5, 6. might be a fitting teacher of men, who should not...Until the hour was late this young scholar dreamed aloud-to me these dreams; and at the close, at onr parting, our consolation was that we lived in a...

...there should be no man, wherever he might be — on the other side of the ocean or on this side — who might be a fitting teacher of men, who should not be drawn within the sphere of the university. Until the hour was late this young scholar dreamed aloud to me these dreams; and at...