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DIVISION OF RARE AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS / CARL A. KROCH LIBRARY / CORNELL<br />

Around the turn of the century, commemorative<br />

sculptors often dressed their subjects in heroic<br />

dress from another era. In this bust of Ezra<br />

<strong>Cornell</strong>, the university's founder might well be a<br />

citizen of ancient Rome or Athens. The foreground<br />

of the photograph—taken in 1978 in Olin Library—shows<br />

a sculpture made from the death mask of Goldwin Smith,<br />

who came from Oxford to teach history as one of <strong>Cornell</strong>'s first professors and<br />

was an early benefactor of the school on East Hill. And among the stone monuments<br />

something grows—much like the idea of a university.<br />

CORNELL MAGAZINE<br />

42

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