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Show Goldwin Smith's Will GOLDWIN SMITH was one of the founders of Cornell university and was for a long time W a professor in that institution. Then he went to the Dominion to make his home. When f the news of his death reached Ithica, N. Y the alumni of the university met and adopted appropriate appro-priate resolutions. That over, Professor Schur-man Schur-man stepped forward and after a few fitting remarks re-marks in eulogy of the great dead, said he had an announcement to make. He thenfead a copy of a paragraph in the will of Professor'lJmith as . follows: ' '&, "All tlK est and residue of my estate I give, m devise and bequeath to Cornell university in the 'J State of New York, United States of America, ab- ' solutely, to be used by the board of trustees for J 1 ,i the promotion especially of liberal studies, languages, lan-guages, ancient and modern, literature philosophy, history and political science, for which provision has been made in the new hall which bears my name and to the building of which my wife has contributed. "In confirming this bequest my desire is ta show my attachment to the university in the foundation of which I had the honor of taking part; to pay my respects to the memory of Ezra Cornell and to show my attachment as an Englishman Eng-lishman to the union of the two branches of our race on this continent with each other and with their common mother." It is thought the amount thus bequeathed to the university will equal or exceed $1,000,000, the largest gift the university has ever had. Like the founder of Harvard, the giver was English born, bred and educated. But his sympathies and his affection took in the whole Anglo-Saxon race; his hope for many years was that the United States and Canada might be united under one government, gov-ernment, and that as the years went by the united countries would stretch loving, and if necessary protecting arms around the mother land beyond the sea. His will emphasizes that desire and at the same time cannot help but awaken kindly thought, in American minds, toward his memory and beyond that to the land which gave him birth and under whose institutions he expanded into the great scholar, and great-hearted man that he was. |