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Miscellaneous - 3 Envelopes

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33-35

Scope and Contents

  1. First Envelope: 1. Schedule of lectures of 1870, 1871, 1875, 1877
  2. 2. Skeleton outlines of growth of University
  3. 3. Many pages of assorted statistics on the trustees, sports, etc.
  4. Second Envelope: 1. Pamphlet, "Some Statements and Estimates of Immediate Wants Laid Before the Trustees of Cornell University by the Scientific Professors..."
  5. 2. A printed except from General Statutes - "Instruction in College"
  6. 3. Programs of memorial services and exercises, 1879, 1883, 1885
  7. 4. Statute of Organization of the University Senate, 1890
  8. 5. Book of Cornell Songs
  9. 6. Programs for the Woodford Prize Contests, 1871, 1874, 1885, and 1886
  10. 7. Act Amending Cornell's Charter, 1883
  11. 8. Announcement of Student Government Panel
  12. 9. Announcement of Cornell Co-operative Society
  13. 10. Acceptance letter of Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt to Democratic nomination for alderman, 1901
  14. 11. Programs of debates, class day exercises, intercollegiate contests, commencements, 1871-1898
  15. 12. Copy of diploma
  16. 13. Report on memorial for A.D. White, 1886
  17. 14. Newspaper clippings:
  1. a. Women faculty members
  2. b. Professors emeritus
  3. c. Death of John F. Rathbone, editor of N.Y. Telegram
  4. d. Against a C. professor who is all for killing of the weak people
  5. e. H.B. Lord, Cashier of 1st National Bank of Ithaca, retired
  6. f. Celebration on Centennial of John Marshall
  7. g. White's daughter divorces her husband
  8. h. War in the Philippines
  9. i. Student Self-Government. Council Report
  10. j. Student Pranks at Cornell
  11. k. President Shurman's speech at opening of University, 1904
  12. l. Charles S. Francis nominated for Minister to Greece
  13. m. Explanation of Student self-government by president of Cornell University, Oct. 27, 1894
  14. n. Cornell men in Spanish American War, Oct. 28, 1898
  15. o. President Schurman's speech on the Philippines, Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 21, 1902
  1. Third Envelope: 1. Newspaper clippings
  1. a. Andrews, Pres. of Brown Univ. has unacceptable ideas on free silver
  2. b. The Church Standard, article condemning Brown, Aug. 28, 1897
  3. c. Catskill and Ithaca Turnpike
  4. d. Instructors of German at Cornell
  5. e. Copy of Cornell Daily Sun, Feb. 20, 1885
  1. 2. Reprint of an article from The American Naturalist about Louis Agassiz, Mar. 1898
  2. 3. Report of the Committee of Trustees, Feb. 13, 1868
  3. 4. Letter to President Gilman of Johns Hopkins concerning establishment of Mechanical College, 1851
  4. 5. Table of statistics re students at Cornell

Dates

  • 1857-1920,-1870-1905 (bulk)

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

3 cubic feet. (3 cubic feet.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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