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Mar 28, 2022 · Paul Cornell Elementary School at the corner of 76th Street and Drexel was among the last Chicago Public Schools sites to racially integrate and was demolished amidst the “white flight” of the 1970s.
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."
Compare S. 2499, 79th Cong., 2d Sess., providing for Federal aid to education, and the controversy engendered over the inclusion in the aid program of sectarian schools, fully discussed in, e.g., 'The Nation's Schools,' January through June, 1947.
Apr 24, 2015 · Cornell's charter explicitly established the university as non-sectarian and co-educational, welcoming anyone who was "academically qualified regardless of sex, color, creed or national...
Jan 28, 2010 · University Archivist Elaine Engst and historian Carol Kammen discussed how blacks and Jews were simultaneously 'part and apart' of the Cornell student body from the beginning in New York, Jan. 26.
Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Cornell – in its nonsectarian way – faced the immense campus grief. About 12,000 Cornell students, faculty and staff, along with community members, gathered on the Arts Quad to share in a national day of prayer and remembrance.
Cornell School. Collection ID 2007.0007. Title Photographs of students at Cornell School in Chicago [graphic]. Dates 1920-1923. Physical description 5 photographic prints : b&w ; 13 x 15 in. Collection summary Group portraits of students at Cornell School, located at 7540 South Drexel Avenue, Chicago (Ill.).
