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tenths of the whole population, and that was tending, 

 as statistics showed, to be regarded more and more ex- 

 otic, no longer thought essential even by some of the 

 learned professions. It took the ground that the uni- 

 versity of the Nineteenth Century could be fully devel- 

 oped only by recognizing the needs and the methods of 

 the Nineteenth Century, and that, while classical and 

 literary r studies were not to be neglected, but on the con- 

 trary were to be continued and developed as never 

 before, the}* could no longer lay claim to be the whole 

 field and scope of higher education. In short, all through 

 the discussion of these formative days of Cornell Uni- 

 versity the idea ran like a thread of light that the new 

 university must rest upon a broader foundation, must 

 awaken the instincts of classes that had long stood 

 aloof, must recognize the necessities not only of all the 

 professions, but of all the industrial vocations, and that 

 when this was done fully and honestly and boldly, the 

 classes that had hitherto stood indifferent to the univer- 

 sities, or stood sullenly apart from them, would rally to 

 their support, and would not only tolerate, but would 

 rejoice in the development even of those studies which 

 they regarded as most unpractical. ' ' 



The principles of the democracy of truth, and the ed- 

 ucating influences of freedom lay at the bottom of the 

 organization of Cornell University ; and it is on these 

 principles that her unparalleled development, materially 

 and intellectually has taken place. 



The Register of the University has the following 

 statement as to the religious position of Cornell : "The 



