Edmund Ezra Day
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. 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. 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.

References

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 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Presidents of Cornell University
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Burials at Sage Chapel
20th-century American academics