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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 180. Chapters: Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Stanford University, Duke University, Saint Anselm College, Washington & Jefferson College, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, Boston University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, Eastern Nazarene College, Brown University, Ohio Wesleyan University. Excerpt: Cornell University ( ) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge - from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of two private land grant universities. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges. As a land grant college, it operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission is offered irrespective of religion or race. Cornell counts more than 245,000 living alumni, 31 Marshall...