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and the industries of the people, and would 

 have done so absolutely but for Andrew 

 D. White and Ezra Cornell, both senators 

 of this State, one a scholar and educational 

 organizer, who had been a professor in the 

 State University of Michigan and the other 

 an inventor and industrial organizer, a 

 millionaire, and withal a philanthropist. 

 Between them, with these qualities, and 

 being in the Senate, they got up the best 

 scheme that was practicable under the cir- 

 cumstances, rescued the grant to New York 

 from utter failure by providing an endow- 

 ment and creating an institution which 

 could take it and try to meet the State's 

 obligations concerning it. The State did 

 nothing. It merely stood by and bene- 

 volently let the thing be done. The result 

 was Cornell University. I have never been 

 quite able to see how the scheme held to- 

 gether and worked out legally, but I im- 



