Edmund Ezra Day
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Edmund Ezra Day | |
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5th President of Cornell University | |
In office 1937–1949 | |
Preceded by | Livingston Farrand |
Succeeded by | Cornelis de Kiewiet acting |
Personal details | |
Born | Manchester, New Hampshire[1] | December 7, 1883
Died | March 23, 1951 Ithaca, New York | (aged 67)
Alma mater | Dartmouth College (A.B., M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
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, 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.
The administrative building at Cornell, Day Hall, is named after Edmund Ezra Day. He was interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus.[3]
References[]
- ^ Rothe, Anna (June 1946). Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1946. ISBN 9780824201128.
- ^ List of ASA Fellows, retrieved 2016-07-16.
- ^ CURW - Sage Hall History
External links[]
- 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.
- 1883 births
- 1951 deaths
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Presidents of Cornell University
- University of Michigan faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Burials at Sage Chapel
- American academic administrator stubs