Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, and his successors, saw medicine as a crucial university offering, and courses in the medical sciences were first offered in 1878. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Ezra Cornell demonstrated his belief in practical higher education for women by enrolling his daughter, Mary Emily, at the newly founded Vassar College in 1866. (Aug. 30, 2007)
The University Library, now known as Uris Library, opened in 1891 -- a full 23 years after classes began -- as Cornell's first dedicated library. (Sept. 27, 2007)
Cornell University's lack of church affiliation made it suspect in some quarters. Ezra Cornell's young university, said its critics, was a godless cesspool of vice. (Sept. 13, 2007)
The now-legendary motto 'I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study' first appeared on the university's Great Seal. (Aug. 21, 2007)
The School of Human Ecology began as a department in the agriculture college in 1907. It came into its own in 1919, and 50 years later was renamed the College of Human Ecology. (Oct. 5, 2007)
