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Cornell's own work, and one which involved calculations and a formula which, if prematurely disclosed, would invalidate the contract Mr. Spielhagen hoped to make, and thus destroy his present hopes. Of this formula but two copies existed.
The enemies of the university were prompt to support the charges, and they found some echoes even among those who were benefited by his generosity even among the students themselves. At this I felt it my duty to call the whole student body together, and, in a careful speech, to explain Mr. Cornell's transactions, answering the charges fully.
F.O.J. Smith to secure contract for trenching. Morse not satisfied with contract. Death of Washington Allston. Reports to Secretary of the Treasury. Prophesies Atlantic cable. Failure of underground wires. Carelessness of Fisher. F.O.J. Smith shows cloven hoof. Ezra Cornell solves a difficult problem. Cornell's plan for insulation endorsed by Professor Henry. Many discouragements.
In the previous chapter I have given some account of the circumstances attending my election and of Mr. Cornell's relation to it; but this is perhaps the place for stating one of the difficulties which stood in the way of my acceptance, and which, indeed, greatly increased my cares during all the first years of my presidency.
Under these circumstances, while he made heroic efforts and sacrifices, his relations to the comptroller of the State, who still had in his charge the land scrip of the university, became exceedingly difficult. At the very crisis of this difficulty Mr. Cornell's hard work proved too much for him, and he lay down to die.
Endows lectureship in Union Theological Seminary. Refuses to attend fifty-fifth reunion of his class. Statue to him proposed. Ezra Cornell's benefaction. American Asiatic Society. Amalgamation of telegraph companies. Protest against stock manipulations. Approves of President Andrew Johnson. Sails with family for Europe. Paris Exposition of 1867. Descriptions of festivities. Cyrus W. Field.
Cornell's old friends living in that city wrote: ``I know that the charges recently published are utterly untrue; but I am not skilled in newspaper controversy, so I will simply add to what I have already given to the university a special gift of thirty thousand dollars, which will testify to my townsmen here, and perhaps to the public at large, my confidence in Mr. Cornell.
Sundry trials of students by the faculty; the Dundee Lecture case; the ``Mock Programme'' case; a suspension of class officers; revelation in all this of a spirit of justice among students. Athletics and their effects. Boating; General Grant's remark to me on the Springfield regatta; Cornell's double success at Saratoga; letter from a Princeton graduate.
Had I drawn a picture of the ship at that moment, it would have been very different from that presented by Curtis. My mind was pervaded by our discouragements by a realization of Mr. Cornell's condition and my own, the demands of our thoughtless friends, the attacks of our fanatical enemies, the inadequacy of our resources.
Mr. Cornell's conduct in this matter was admirable. Tenacious as he usually was when his opinion was formed, and much as it must have cost him to give up what had become a darling project, he yielded to this view.
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