The Inauguration of Elizabeth Garrett : : Cornell's Thirteenth President / / Elizabeth Garrett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Garrett, Elizabeth,
• MitwirkendeR: Bowers, Ann S.,; Cornell, Ezra,; Harrison, Robert S.,; Ritter, Gretchen,; White, A. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (98 p.) :; 1 halftone
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Inaugurati on Readings and Speeches --; Reading Selections --; Alice Fulton --; Introductory Remarks --; The Road to Ithaka: Full of Adventure, Full of Discovery ... The Marvelous Journey --; Cornell and Its Presidents in Time --; Cornell's First Inauguration Day, October 7, 1868 --; The Symbols of the Presidential Office --; The Presidents of Cornell University --; A Legacy of Firsts: Women at Cornell --; Cornell's Sesquicentennial, 1865-2015 --; About Cornell University Press
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501702648; 9783110606744
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501702648
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elizabeth Garrett.

On the occasion of the inauguration of Cornell's thirteenth president, Elizabeth Garrett, Cornell University Press is pleased to publish the official commemorative edition of her inauguration speech. This handsome volume also includes several other sections of interest to Cornellians, including a foreword by President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes, remarks from Board of Trustees Chair Robert S. Harrison, poetry by Alice Fulton, selected texts by Ezra Cornell and A. D. White, a feature on Cornell's Sesquicentennial, brief biographies of past presidents of Cornell, and a historical account of women at Cornell by Gretchen Ritter, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences. President Garrett's speech will be remembered for years to come, and this book is a wonderful keepsake of a historic occasion.