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that tuition was also free in a scientific field allied to agriculture—
genetics—at one of the Ivy League universities, Cornell. He borrowed
train fare and arrived in Ithaca, New York, in February, 1911, where he
got a job waiting on tables. After commencement in February of 1914, he
attended graduate school, managing to fall in love twice, once with a
brunette, once with the blonde daughter of a movie-house owner. While
he was there, a wealthy textile merchant, George Fabyan, who
maintained laboratories in acoustics, chemistry, genetics, and cryp-
tology (to try to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays) on his 500-
acre estate, Riverbank, at Geneva, Illinois, decided that he needed a
geneticist to improve the grains and livestock on his farm. He applied to
Cornell for a "would-be-er," not an "as-is-er," and hired Friedman, to
begin June 1, 1915.
Fabyan was a man of no formal education but of intelligence and
energy
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