Volume 1 — PART IV—AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT CHAPTER XVII. EVOLUTION OF ``THE CORNELL IDEA''— 1850-1865
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Development of my ideas on university organization at Hobart College, at Yale, and abroad. Their further evolution at the University of Michigan. President Tappan's influence. My plan of a university at Syracuse. Discussions with George William Curtis. Proposal to Gerrit Smith; its failure. A new opportunity opens.