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Cornell was founded as a non-sectarian school, but had to compete with church-sponsored institutions for gaining New York's land-grant status. A.D. White noted in his inaugural address, "We will labor to make this a Christian institution, a sectarian institution may it never be."
The full video of Cornell’s nonsectarian gathering on the Arts Quad for the national day of prayer and remembrance on Sept. 14, 2001, three days after the Sept. 11 attacks.. Rev. Kenneth I. Clarke Sr., director of CURW, reminded the gathering not to vent their anger toward blameless cultures, races and faiths.
Although Sage Hall was built as Sage College, the first women’s dormitory at Cornell, the “experiment” to which Cornell refers turns out to be Cornell University itself, co-educational and non-sectarian, with diverse educational opportunities.
Under the guidance of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University was established as a non-sectarian institution, open to all, and dedicated to all forms of intellectual endeavor.
Cornell was founded as a non-sectarian school, but had to compete with church-sponsored institutions for gaining New York's land grant status. A.D. White noted in his inaugural address, "We will labor to make this a Christian institution, a sectarian institution may it never be."
It is important to be clear that neither Jefferson nor the participants in the Massachusetts and New York City school conflicts of the first half of the nineteenth century considered “sectarian” a synonym for “religious,” or considered “nonsectarian” as equivalent to “nonreligious.”
Both were New York State senators, and Cornell’s bill was referred to White’s Commit-tee on Literature. Cornell was the oldest member of the Senate and White the youngest, but they dis-covered that their ideas about education had much in common. On February 7, 1865, White introduced into the New York State Senate a bill to establish
