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View looking west from terrace of Willard Straight Hall down Libe Slope to Founders Hall (now a dormitory); Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge--from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, an 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Since its founding, Cornell has also been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission is offered irrespective of religion or race. Central Campus is the primary academic and administrative section. It is bounded by Libe Slope on the west, Fall Creek on the north, and Cascadilla Creek on the South. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 4/21/2011)