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Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educato
Ezra Cornell
Andrew Dickson White
Cornell University's faculty in 1916
Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell campus, which was occupied by armed anti-Vietnam War protesters in 1969, leading to the resignation of James Alfred Perkins, Cornell's seventh president
Andrew Dickson White
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Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University, one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States, and served as its first president for nearly t
Andrew and his brother dedicated the spire of St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse to their mother
White as a junior or senior at Yale College wearing his Skull and Bones pin
White in 1865, when he and Ezra Cornell co-founded Cornell University