According to the dream of the founders, Cornell was to be "an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Those words have lived on in the school's history.
依據兩位創始人的構想，康乃爾大學的成立，是「要給任何人、任何學門，在這裡都可以找到知識」﹘﹘這句建校名言長存校史中。