Edmund Ezra Day
Day in 1947
5th President of Cornell University
In office
1937–1949
Preceded byLivingston Farrand
Succeeded byCornelis de Kiewiet acting
Personal details
Born(1883-12-07)December 7, 1883
Manchester, New Hampshire[1]
DiedMarch 23, 1951(1951-03-23) (aged 67)
Ithaca, New York
Alma materDartmouth College (A.B., M.A.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)

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

Biography

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

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

  1. ↑ Rothe, Anna (June 1946). Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1946. ISBN 9780824201128.
  2. ↑ List of ASA Fellows Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2016-07-16.
  3. ↑ "2026-Day Hall Facility Information". Facilities and Campus Services. Cornell University. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  4. ↑ "History: Finding Cornell's Forefathers in Sage Chapel Crypt". Cornell Daily Sun. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2023.


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