Table of Contents

1. Prelude 2. Ezra Cornell 3. Andrew D. White 4. The Conception of a University 5. The Making of a University 6. The Early Years: A Perambulation of the Campus 7. The Early Years: The Men 8. The Early Years: The Boys 9. The Early Years: The Girls 10. The Early Years: Instruction and Education 11. The Early Years: Triumphs and Trials 12. The Doubtful Years, 1876-1881 13. The Great Will Case 14. Reconstruction, 1881-1885 15. President Adams, 1885-1892 16. Cornell under President Adams: The Business of Education 17. Cornell under President Adams: The Teachers and the Taught 18. The Nineties: President Schurman and the State of New York 19. The Nineties: Cornell Medical College 20. The Nineties: The Educational Machine 21. The Nineties: Cornellians and Their Home 22. The New Century: Cornell's Soul and Body 23. The New Century: The Rise of Agriculture 24. The New Century: Cornell Medical College 25. The New Century: The Other Colleges 26. The New Century: Prewar Cornellians 27. The First War 28. Interregnum I, 1920-1921 29. President Farrand: The Campus 30. President Farrand's Regime: Organization and Administration 31. Cornell under President Farrand: Education 32. Cornell under President Farrand: Campus Life 33. Cornell under President Farrand: Athletics 34. The Medical College: Retirement of President Farrand 35. Cornell under President Day: Prewar 36. Cornell under President Day: War 37. Cornell under President Day: Postwar Administration 38. Cornell under President Day: Postwar Education and Research 39. Cornell under President Day: The Postwar Student 40. Interregnum II, 1949-1951 41. Cornell under President Malott 42. Postlude Excursus I: President White in His Library Excursus II: Boring on Titchener Excursus III: Cornell Authors Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Note Index

About the Author

The late Morris Bishop was Kappa Alpha Professor of Romance Literature and University Historian at Cornell University.