456 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
not own that fund, but that, like the land-grant fund of $688,000, 
it was owned by the State of New York and held in trust for the 
university. 
The matter went to the court of appealsin New York State, and that 
court decided against us, and then it went to the Supreme Court of the 
United States, and that court decided against us. That is, the Supreme 
Court of the United States has decided that the gift that Ezra Cornell 
made to the university of money which he had made in the way of 
profit on land scrip bought from the State of New York in the open 
market was his private gift and not the gift of the United States. I 
mention that lest the fact should afterwards come to your attention 
and you might think that when I said that the amount of money 
derived from the sale of land scrip in New York was $688,000 I was 
not telling the whole story. So that when it is said of Cornell that 
‘‘they were better endowed than any institution in the land” it should 
also be added that the total amount derived from that endowment was 
$688,000, on which we receive $34,000 yearly in interest, which $34,000 
we are spending solely for the objects specified in the act of Congress. 
The whole sentence is as follows: 
They were better endowed than any institution in the Jand and should be doing 
the best work of any institution in the land, yet never did anything. 
Cornell University never did anything! Well, twenty yearsago there 
were over 800 students in the university. To-day there are over 3,000. 
The faculty numbers 391 to-day. It numbers more than the entire 
student body did twenty years ago. You can imagine my feelings 
when I read that we ought to be doing something, but yet never have 
done anything. We have students-at Cornell from practically every 
State and Territory in the Union and every continent on the globe. 
But suppose the meaning to be that in the way of agricultural teach- 
ing Cornell University is doing nothing. Can that charge be made 
good? Cornell University has a college of agriculture with a large 
faculty in which there are enrolled to-day 276 students. In 1901 we 
had 193 students. In 1903 we had 235. I have a table here showing 
the attendance for several years, and I will hand this to the stenog- 
rapher and ask that it be made a part of my statement. 
The paper referred to is as follows: 
Students in college of agriculture of Cornell University for the past five years. 
Regular. Special. | Winter. | Total. 
1899-1900 ... Al 47 83 pies 
1900-1901 ... 48 51 94 193 
1901-2 49 43 96 188 
1902-3 as aernw ose mxreainams sg tesiemabe chek Se eeeuR setae eeececeseae 60 54 121 235 
DOO SA icin ceiseaeetomarsineenaieuays ote (orem reimeislars Sia eee IS Ste RTE INS oie cies 76 136 276 
That does not include students of veterinary medicine, in which 
course we have 85. And, furthermore, while Cornell has 361 students 
in agriculture and veterinary medicine, it is, Mr. Chairman, giving 
instruction to thousands of persons in the State of New York. We 
conduct correspondence with farmers and farmers’ sons and with 
farmers’ wives and with teachers all over the State. We send them 
out lessons. These lessons are taken by them and studied, and their 
answers are sent back to Cornell. We examine the answers and then 
