Cornell Head Retires

Dr. Edmund Ezra Day '05, fifth President of Cornell University and its first Chancellor, retired from active participation in the adminisl ration of the university on January 31. Among the many tributes paid to him was the following editorial from the New YorkHerald Tribune:

CORNELL'S CHANCELLOR

Dr. Edmund Ezra Day will retire on Tuesday after thirteen years of exacting and effective service as Cornell's fifth president and first chancellor. They were crowded and critical years in Ithaca, marked by an unprecedented growth of the institution and by an extraordinary complexity of administrative responsibilities. Upon Dr. Day fell the patriotic task of guiding the university through the difficult years of the war and upon him also fell the burden of providing for the influx of mature and able veterans after the war. In his administration the faculty expanded to more than 1,000 and the student body to more than 10,000. Under him the scope of the university's activities widened with the addition of eight new schools and laboratory centers. The names alonefrom the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, on the one hand, to the laboratories of aeronautics and of nuclear physics—reflect both the range of present-day research and the concern of the university with present-day problems.

As Dr. Day relinquishes the helm, the university is moving ahead in open water under full sail. A campaign for faculty salaries and other needs is three-fourths of the way toward its $12,500,000 objective. Construction continues on campus, with a $3,000,000 library for the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics and a .$2,500,000 center for the Department of Hotel Administration under way and $15,- 000,000 of new building projected. A successor, familiar with Cornell tradition and sympathetic to the variety and vigor of educational enterprise on which the energies of the university are engaged, will find the intellectual climate of Ithaca bracing. In all good conscience, Dr. Day can retire to the home which the Cornell trustees are building for him on Lake Cayuga, 10 that haven will come many who would profit from his academic statesmanship, shrewd counsel and unassuming friendliness.

CHANCELLOR E. E. DAY '05 shown speaking at a Dartmouth Night rally in Hanover some years ago.