Edmund Ezra Day

Edmund Ezra Day (December 7, 1883 – March 23, 1951) was an American educator.

Edmund Ezra Day
Day in 1947
5th President of Cornell University
In office 1937–1949
Preceded by	Livingston Farrand
Succeeded by	Cornelis de Kiewiet acting
Personal details
Born	(1883-12-07)December 7, 1883 Manchester, New Hampshire[1]
Died	March 23, 1951(1951-03-23) (aged 67) Ithaca, New York
Alma mater	Dartmouth College (A.B., M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D.)

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.[2] 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.[3]