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Cornell University,

A co-educational institution at Ithaca, N. Y. The buildings are on the eminence outside of the city, and nearly 400 feet above Cayuga Lake. It is an organic part of the educational system of the State; is under the supervision of the regents; and, having, accepted the bounty of Congress for the encouragement of agriculture, it teaches such branches as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, including other scientific studies and military tactics. At the end of the school year 1899 it had 284 professors and instructors, 2,543 students, twenty-two fellowships; 568 scholarships; 445,000 volumes in the library; grounds and buildings valued at $1,796,373; productive funds, $6,446,818; and income, $636,051. The president was Jacob D. Schurman, Ll.D.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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