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Was he a Jew? -- Brand спойт 12:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Cornell wasn't born in Westchester County--he was born in DeRuyter, near Cortland.
The Religious Society of Friends is a curious entity, featuring many curious (in both senses of the adjective) people. While i spent something on the order of two decades thinking of myself as a Friend (as my best buddy among Friends, the Quaker-history and -theology scholar
Geoff Kaiser put it, it's simply a question of whether you "own" them and they "own" you -- using a valuable but recently somewhat neglected sense of that word -- and i have disowned mostly the outward actvities but not the style-of-mind of the Society, for over a decade (since
9-11, FWIW), i remain among the
Peculiar people to a great extent.
The accompanying article struck me in several aspects as having been written not for the English[-language] Wikipedia, but for a notional WP written in the Quaker-English dialect or
jargon. (No doubt that notion will offend some Quakers: perhaps many at my erstwhile employer,
FUM headquarters in
Richmond and perhaps,
some of those in
Indianapolis or
Pomona, New York.)
My notion of the QE WP as a language variant is probably fully quixotic, but i want to seriously suggest that WMF be open to considering (perhaps as a facility provided on a one-off basis -- i.e., with no intention of providing the same accomodation to any other wiki ) Hmm, here i shall break off, and mull offline, considering whether my notion actually requires any WMF accomodation beyond our fundamental open-source approach to our content & engine.
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Jerzy•
t 12:23, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
I am just curious the first paragrah says he is "educational administrator". If he is founder of Cornell, shouldn't the title be called "educator" or "university founder"?
Xinbenlv ( talk) 22:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
I just rewrote the paragraph on managing the University's land grant program. This is a complex topic, but my goal was to make Ezra Cornell's innovations more clear without going into too much detail. The previous version cited a source that has a good reputation, but I did not use it because I don't happen to have access. For future reference, that source is: [1] My understanding, the 2011 edition is a reprint with new illustrations. Condensinguponitself ( talk) 20:21, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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The statement "Cornell University has made the approximately 30,000 letters in the Cornell Correspondence available online" seems plausible, but I was unable to verify. Presently, the library's web site contains the less specific claim that the whole collection, correspondence and other items, occupy 60 cubic feet. [1] Also, the more modest statement, "much of the collection has been digitized". [2] So I added a "citation needed" tag to the statement. Condensinguponitself ( talk) 14:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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Was he a Jew? -- Brand спойт 12:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Cornell wasn't born in Westchester County--he was born in DeRuyter, near Cortland.
The Religious Society of Friends is a curious entity, featuring many curious (in both senses of the adjective) people. While i spent something on the order of two decades thinking of myself as a Friend (as my best buddy among Friends, the Quaker-history and -theology scholar
Geoff Kaiser put it, it's simply a question of whether you "own" them and they "own" you -- using a valuable but recently somewhat neglected sense of that word -- and i have disowned mostly the outward actvities but not the style-of-mind of the Society, for over a decade (since
9-11, FWIW), i remain among the
Peculiar people to a great extent.
The accompanying article struck me in several aspects as having been written not for the English[-language] Wikipedia, but for a notional WP written in the Quaker-English dialect or
jargon. (No doubt that notion will offend some Quakers: perhaps many at my erstwhile employer,
FUM headquarters in
Richmond and perhaps,
some of those in
Indianapolis or
Pomona, New York.)
My notion of the QE WP as a language variant is probably fully quixotic, but i want to seriously suggest that WMF be open to considering (perhaps as a facility provided on a one-off basis -- i.e., with no intention of providing the same accomodation to any other wiki ) Hmm, here i shall break off, and mull offline, considering whether my notion actually requires any WMF accomodation beyond our fundamental open-source approach to our content & engine.
--
Jerzy•
t 12:23, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
I am just curious the first paragrah says he is "educational administrator". If he is founder of Cornell, shouldn't the title be called "educator" or "university founder"?
Xinbenlv ( talk) 22:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
I just rewrote the paragraph on managing the University's land grant program. This is a complex topic, but my goal was to make Ezra Cornell's innovations more clear without going into too much detail. The previous version cited a source that has a good reputation, but I did not use it because I don't happen to have access. For future reference, that source is: [1] My understanding, the 2011 edition is a reprint with new illustrations. Condensinguponitself ( talk) 20:21, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
References
The statement "Cornell University has made the approximately 30,000 letters in the Cornell Correspondence available online" seems plausible, but I was unable to verify. Presently, the library's web site contains the less specific claim that the whole collection, correspondence and other items, occupy 60 cubic feet. [1] Also, the more modest statement, "much of the collection has been digitized". [2] So I added a "citation needed" tag to the statement. Condensinguponitself ( talk) 14:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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