Edmund Ezra Day, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund Ezra Day
American academic administrator
Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1883
Place of Birth: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Death: 23-Mar-1951
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Edmund Ezra Day
- Edmund Ezra Day (December 7, 1883 – March 23, 1951) was an American educator. Day received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Dartmouth College and his doctorate in economics from Harvard.
- While at Dartmouth, be 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. The administrative building at Cornell, Day Hall, is named after Edmund Ezra Day.
- He was interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus.
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