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that his remains ought to rest on that beautiful site, in the 

 midst of the institution he loved so well ; and I proposed 

 that a memorial chapel he erected, beneath which his re- 

 mains and those of other benefactors of the university 

 might rest, and that it should be made beautiful. This was 

 done. The stone vaulting, the tracery, and other decora- 

 tive work, planned by our professor of architecture, and 

 carried out as a labor of love by Richardson, were all that 

 I could desire. The trustees, entering heartily into the 

 plan, authorized me to make an arrangement with Story, 

 the American sculptor at Rome, to execute a reclining 

 statue of Mr. Cornell above the crypt where rest his 

 remains ; and citizens of Ithaca also authorized me to se- 

 cure in London the memorial window beneath which the 

 statue is placed. Other memorials followed, in the shape 

 of statues, busts, and tablets, as others who had been loved 

 and lost were laid to rest in the chapel crypt, until the 

 little building has become a place of pilgrimage. In the 

 larger chapel, also, tablets and windows were erected from 

 time to time ; and the mosaic and other decorations of the 

 memorial apse, recently erected as a place of repose for 

 the remains of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sage, are a beautiful 

 development of the same idea. 



So, too, upon the grounds, some effort was made to 

 connect the present with the past. Here, as elsewhere in 

 our work, it seemed to me well to impress, upon the more 

 thinking students at least, the idea that all they saw 

 had not " happened so," without the earnest agency of 

 human beings ; but that it had been the result of the earnest 

 life-work of men and women, and that no life-work to 

 which a student might aspire could be more worthy. In 

 carrying out this idea upon the ' ' campus ' ' Goldwin Smith 

 took the lead by erecting the stone seat which has now 

 stood there for over thirty years. Other memorials fol- 

 lowed, among them a drinking-f ountain, the stone bridge 

 across the Cascadilla, the memorial seat back of the li- 

 brary, the entrance gateway, and the like; and, at the 

 lamented death of Richardson, another English stone- 



