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Kotlikoff to new students: Embrace the 'freedom and responsibility' of Cornell
August 26, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 26 -- Cornell University issued the following news:

They already knew the Cornell motto.

Many in the crowd at New Student Convocation called it out to Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff: "... any person ... any study," shorthand for Ezra Cornell's aim to "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."

"To be a Cornellian is to inherit that tradition, of '... any person . . .

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