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The 100 Most Notable Cornellians (Hardcover)
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The 100 Most Notable Cornellians (Hardcover)
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"Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the
Ivy League. . . . It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who
founded an institution 'where any one person could find instruction
in any study.' . . . Cornell has played a distinctive role in
democratizing higher education, while helping to shape the American
university's post-Civil War commitment to useful service to
American society and to the world. The undergraduate experience has
been the heart of life on East Hill, 'far above Cayuga's Waters.'
Its undergraduates have lived the ideals carved into the Eddy
Street gate: 'So enter that daily thou mayest become more learned
and thoughtful. So depart that daily thou mayest become more useful
to thy country and to mankind.' It is our privilege and honor to
single out and, in most cases, pay tribute to Cornell's most
distinguished sons and daughters." from the PrefaceGraduates of
Cornell University have achieved remarkable success in all areas
from literature and photography to economics and agriculture, from
finance and chemistry to athletics and the stage. They have held
positions of leadership in boardrooms and classrooms, blazed new
paths in medicine and journalism, acted on lofty ideals and strong
ambition. Cornellians are regulars in Stockholm, on the bestseller
lists, and in high office. Faced with all that excellence, the
authors of this book sifted through encyclopedias, archives, and
alumni records and engaged in conversations and debates to arrive
at a final group of one hundred notable men and women who completed
an undergraduate degree program at Cornell. These alumni are
representative in their distinction (and, in a few cases, for their
notoriety). Each Cornellian is profiled in a witty and erudite
essay, each accompanied with one telling exception by a portrait.
In immortalizing a selection of notable Cornellians from a bit more
than the first hundred years of the university, the authors arrive
at a portrait of Cornell itself, "a world-class institution with an
egalitarian soul" where undergraduates are guided to exceed their
own goals and change the world, too."
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