Edmund Ezra Day
Edmund Ezra Day | |
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| File:Edmund Ezra Day (1883-1951) in 1947.jpg Day in 1947 | |
| 5th President of Cornell University | |
| In office 1937–1949 | |
| Preceded by | Livingston Farrand |
| Succeeded by | Cornelis de Kiewiet acting |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 7, 1883 |
| Died | March 23, 1951 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (A.B., M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
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Edmund Ezra Day (December 7, 1883 – March 23, 1951) was an American educator.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Day received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Dartmouth College and his doctorate in economics from Harvard. While at Dartmouth, he became a brother of Theta Delta Chi. In 1921 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] In 1923 he went to the University of Michigan, where he served as professor of economics, organizer and first dean of the School of Business Administration, and Dean of the University. He went on to serve as the fifth president of Cornell University from 1937 to 1949. While in office, he helped establish the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.
Legacy and honors
[edit | edit source]The main administrative building at Cornell was built in 1947 and named Day Hall in his honor.[3] Day is one of only fifteen people whose remains are interred in Cornell's Sage Chapel, a list which includes founders Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, as well as "third founder" Henry W. Sage.[4]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Cornell Presidency: Edmund Ezra Day
- Cornell University Library Presidents Exhibition: Edmund Ezra Day (Presidency; Inauguration)
- Guide to the Edmund Ezra Day arbitration files, 1949. #5094. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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- 1883 births
- 1951 deaths
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Presidents of Cornell University
- University of Michigan faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Burials at Sage Chapel
- 20th-century American academics
- People from Manchester, New Hampshire
- American academic administrator, 19th-century birth stubs