"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell, now a member of the elite group of schools known as the Ivy League. Regarded to be the easiest to get into (due to the state colleges that are branches of the university) but the hardest to stay in. In one article, it was mentioned as "the only campus where you walk up a 45 degree incline in 45 degree weather to get a 45% on a test."
Far above Cayuga's waters...
Hail, all Hail Cornell
A University founded by Ezra Cornell and a member of the Ivy League. Although less prestigious than some of its Ivy League peers, Cornellians still take pride in the beautiful campus and in the fact that they can actually learn almost anything known to man here
Cornell University is a place where you can get an ivy league education in a great variety of subjects
The member of the Ivy League that is looked down upon as the "Crappy Ivy" (a rather oxymoronic term in itself as all Ivies are excellent schools) by the other seven members of the Ivy League, because it is the least challenging to get into, is partially a state school, and has the highest suicide rate.
Hey, did you get into Harvard?
No
Yale?
No
Princeton?
No
Columbia?
No
Penn?
No
Brown?
No
Dartmouth?
No
Cornell University?
Yeah
Sorry man, that sucks.
Yeah it does.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)