November 30, 1866. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell: "I have thought much since arriving home upon the possible extension of time by the recent Act of Congress. We ought not to procrastinate to anything like the extent allowed by the law but we might put off the reception of students and the beginning to pay professors salaries for a year and be, I am inclined to think, in much better position for it?" Topics: Cornell University: extension of opening, committee to consider Medical College; agriculture; Wisconsin lands; Land scrip; railroads Personal names: Geddes, George; White, Andrew Dickson; Chace, Thomas; Cornell, J.M.; Cornell, D.B.; Gurnsey, E.; Pinkham, Anna H.; Woodward, W.A.; Putnam, H.C.; Kyes, Eliza; Murdock, L.; Rooker, Thomas N.; Carey, F.G. Geography: