CORNELL UNIVERSITY — HISTORY. 3 1 



It was for this work that Mr. Cornell was assailed as 

 a ' ' thief ' and a ' ' land-grabber, ' ' and his declining 

 years embittered by the most unjust and unwarranted 

 assaults in many of the papers of the State. 



Such is the history of Cornell's magnificent endow- 

 ment. To the sum thus secured very important ad- 

 ditions have been made by the Hon. Henry W. Sage, 

 the founder of Sage College, the Hon. Hiram Sibley, 

 founder of Sibley College, John McGraw, who gave the 

 McGraw Building, Ex-President White, whose gifts to 

 the University in money have exceeded $100,000, and 

 Mrs. Jennie McGraw-Fiske, who gave the University 

 Chime, and by her will made the University Library 

 the residuary legatee of her large estate, amounting to 

 nearlv a million of dollars.* 



*This will is now being contested in the courts. The pro- 

 gress of the suit thus far has been altogether favorable to the 

 University. 



