Pathways to Peace, a wide-ranging conversation on regional politics, power dynamics and the historic and ethnic conflicts of Israel and Palestine, will be held at 6 p.m. in Bailey Hall on Monday, March 10.

Three years before Cornell was chartered, Andrew Dickson White, our co-founder and first president, wrote a letter in which he outlined his “ideal university.” To read it from the perspective of 2025 is to hear the echoes of Ecclesiastes: “What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again.”

White’s aspirations for his envisioned institution reflect the civil and social issues of his day, as much as they do White’s own educational philosophy. He sought a university “where the most highly prized instruction may be afforded to all — regardless of sex or color”; one that would “give a chance for instruction in Moral Philosophy, History and Political Economy unwarped to suit present abuses in Politics or........

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