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Edmund Day

Edmund Ezra Day
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Born
  
December 7, 1883Manchester, New Hampshire (
1883-12-07
)

Alma mater
  
Died
  
March 23, 1951, Ithaca, New York, United States

Books
  
Education for freedom and responsibility, The Growth of Manufactures, 1899 to 1923, The New Immigrants

Education
  
Dartmouth College, Harvard University

Edmund Ezra Day (December 7, 1883 – March 23, 1951) was an American educator.

Day received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Dartmouth College and his doctorate in economics from Harvard. While at Dartmouth, be became a brother of Theta Delta Chi. 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.

The administrative building at Cornell, Day Hall, is named after Edmund Ezra Day. He was interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus.

References

Edmund Ezra Day Wikipedia


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