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Title: A guide book to Cornell university and Ithaca..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h earlier benefactors of education. Directly beneath thenorth window is a recumbent figure of Ezra Cornell, inwhite marble, by William W. Story. Near the entranceis a smaller recumbent figure of Mrs. Andrew D. White,by Ezekiel, of Rome. By the terms of the charter of the University, personsof any religious denomination or no religious denominationare equally eligible to all offices and appointments ; but itis expressly ordered that at no time shall a majority ofthe Board of Trustees be of any one religious sect or ofno religious sect. Religious services, provided for by theDean Sage Preachership Endowment, are conducted inSage Chapel by eminent clergymen of various religious de-nominations. During term time there is an organ recitalon every week day except Saturday, at 5 p.m., and once ineach week a choral performance. Directly north of the chapel is Boardman Hall (main en-trance from the quadrangle, on the north side), devotedexclusively to the uses of the College of Law. \n addition
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<ua, U<u en 0) 4—1 20 A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL VNIVERSITT to lecture rooms and offices, it contains a library, excep-tionally complete in reports and treatises on American andEnglish law. Of special interest to the visitor are the portraits of greatjurists which hang upon the walls of the library room.They are the gift of former President Andrew D. White,who, when presenting them to the University, characterizedtheir originals as follows: First Grotius, who still recog-nized a divine law of justice in the midst of the riot andunreason of the Thirty-Years War, following as it didupon the heels of seventy similar years on the Netherlands.Second, Thomasius, who struggled to free humanity fromexamination by torture and to overthrow the belief in witch-craft—the greatest statesman in German history betweenLuther and Bismarck. Third, William Murray, Earl ofMansfield, in some respects the greatest judge that hasever sat as Chief Justice of England, who made the greatdeclaration that

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