A bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University Library following a complaint, according to reports.
Randy Wayne, a professor of biology at Cornell, said the library had removed the display, after “someone complained,” according to the higher education news website, College Fix.
The bust of Lincoln and the bronzed plaque of the Gettysburg Address, one of the most revered and widely quoted speeches in American history, had been displayed in the Ivy League school’s Kroch Library since 2013.
Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech was first delivered in 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the American Civil War….
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