Quote#Hope
I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall…
Quote byEzra Cornell · 1807–1874
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address on the morning of 7 October 1868, as quoted by Carl L. Becker, John Wendell Anderson Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941, in Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943), Ithaca: Cornell University Press, March 1949 reissue, p. 136.
English (original)
I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall combine practical with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the farms, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations of science, and for mastering all the practical questions of life with success and honor.
— Ezra Cornell
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