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Cornell

Author : Glenn C. Altschuler,Isaac Kramnick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801471889

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In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of varsity athletics, the women's movement, the opening of relations with China, and the creation of Cornell NYC Tech. It relates profound, fascinating, and little-known incidents involving the faculty, administration, and student life, connecting them to the "Cornell idea" of freedom and responsibility. The authors had access to all existing papers of the presidents of Cornell, which deeply informs their respectful but unvarnished portrait of the university. Institutions, like individuals, develop narratives about themselves. Cornell constructed its sense of self, of how it was special and different, on the eve of World War II, when America defended democracy from fascist dictatorship. Cornell’s fifth president, Edmund Ezra Day, and Carl Becker, its preeminent historian, discerned what they called a Cornell "soul," a Cornell "character," a Cornell "personality," a Cornell "tradition"—and they called it "freedom." "The Cornell idea" was tested and contested in Cornell’s second seventy-five years. Cornellians used the ideals of freedom and responsibility as weapons for change—and justifications for retaining the status quo; to protect academic freedom—and to rein in radical professors; to end in loco parentis and parietal rules, to preempt panty raids, pornography, and pot parties, and to reintroduce regulations to protect and promote the physical and emotional well-being of students; to add nanofabrication, entrepreneurship, and genomics to the curriculum—and to require language courses, freshmen writing, and physical education. In the name of freedom (and responsibility), black students occupied Willard Straight Hall, the anti–Vietnam War SDS took over the Engineering Library, proponents of divestment from South Africa built campus shantytowns, and Latinos seized Day Hall. In the name of responsibility (and freedom), the university reclaimed them. The history of Cornell since World War II, Altschuler and Kramnick believe, is in large part a set of variations on the narrative of freedom and its partner, responsibility, the obligation to others and to one’s self to do what is right and useful, with a principled commitment to the Cornell community—and to the world outside the Eddy Street gate.

The Cornell Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2872392

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Cornell '69

Author : Donald A. Downs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801466120

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In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism.Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law. Eyewitness accounts and retrospective interviews depict the explosive events of the day and bring the key participants into sharp focus: the Afro-American Society, outraged at a cross-burning incident on campus and demanding amnesty for its members implicated in other protests; University President James A. Perkins, long committed to addressing the legacies of racism, seeing his policies backfire and his career collapse; the faculty, indignant at the university's surrender, rejecting the administration's concessions, then reversing itself as the crisis wore on. The weekend's traumatic turn of events is shown by Downs to be a harbinger of the debates raging today over the meaning of the university in American society. He explores the fundamental questions it posed, questions Americans on and off campus are still struggling to answer: What is the relationship between racial justice and intellectual freedom? What are the limits in teaching identity politics? And what is the proper meaning of the university in a democratic polity?

A History of Cornell

Author : Morris Bishop
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801455377

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Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture—and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public. Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader." The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White." Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely—and alone—from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.

Additions to the Rhaeto-Romantic Collection

Author : Cornell University. Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Raeto-Romance philology
ISBN : UOM:39015033600977

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The University Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092964295

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Cornell University Press, Est. 1869

Author : Karen M. Laun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501740312

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A history of the first 150 years of Cornell University Press.

The Cornell Era

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2534088

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Cornell University College Prowler Off the Record

Author : Oliver Striker
Publisher : College Prowler, Inc
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596580372

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Provides a look at Cornell University from the students' viewpoint.

Annual Report of the President of Cornell University

Author : Cornell University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063853129

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The Cornell Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2872385

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Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order

Author : Lindsay Blair
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780231600

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The "boxes" and collages constructed by Joseph Cornell (1903–72) are among the most intriguing and beguiling works of art made this century. Old toys, photos, magazine illustrations, bits of electrical wiring – anything in fact more usually left to molder in lumber rooms or junkshops – were hoarded by him as the elemental materials he needed for his constructions. The finished works are visually entrancing, but the intensely personal webs of reverie and association that determined their content make these boxes at once both oddly familiar yet ineluctably strange. Drawing on the widest range possible of primary material – virtually all Cornell's scrapbooks and source files, as well as correspondence and diaries – supplemented by further details gathered during more than fifty interviews undertaken with the artist's family and acquaintances, including Robert Motherwell and Susan Sontag, Lindsay Blair gives us the most detailed picture yet of an artist who hid so much of his life from the world. Her conclusion, wholly convincing in the light of the evidence she provides, is that Cornell's ultimate subject was the mind itself.

Bulletin

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Library science
ISBN : UIUC:30112043030177

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Magazine Editors Talk to Writers

Author : Judy Mandell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012160433

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Magazine Editors Talk to Writers by Judy Mandell Pdf

Here's the inside scoop on the business of getting published: What you should know about contracts, copyrights, and kill fees; editors: Discover what their roles are, how they make decisions, and what they look for in their writers; queries and proposals: What makes them eye-catching? The truth behind the "what ifs": What if a writer sends multiple queries? What if the deadline is not met? What if an author has problems with an editor?

Joseph Cornell

Author : Jason Edwards,Stephanie L. Taylor
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039110586

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"The essays collected here derive from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, entitled 'Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Joseph Cornell', which was held at the AHRC Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and Its Legacies at the University of Essex between 17 and 19 September, 2003"--P. [9].