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the third was a man easily influenced. The Gov- 

 ernor always blamed us, and justly, I think, for not 

 watching the appointment of the committee closely 

 enough, but I doubt if any amount of watching 

 would have secured the Station for Cornell Uni- 

 versity. We had not enough political influence at 

 that time to dictate who should be appointed on 

 the committee. We should have foreseen perhaps, 

 what would be likely to happen and have given the 

 Governor a tip so that he would not sign the bill. 

 But all's well that ends well ; and time has shown 

 that there is ample room in so large, populous and 

 diversified a State as New York for two stations. 

 I am now inclined to think that if it had been 

 located at Cornell the station might have brought 

 upon us more criticism than the University already 

 suffered. Because the College was not adminis- 

 tered by some religious denomination and because 

 the President had selected a corps of scientific 

 lecturers and professors who valued truth more 

 than legend, the churches were violently antagonis- 

 tic. When the Press announced one fall that a 

 large number 300, I think had entered the 

 Freshman class, a leading denominational journal 

 declared that 300 " fresh recruits for Satan" had 

 entered this " Godless college." Another journal 



