Livingston Farrand papers

The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, pertaining largely to the routine administration of the President's Office and the University. Subjects include student and faculty issues, student health, athletics, Cornell United Religious Work including arrangements for Sage Chapel preachers, alumni affairs, fraternities, the Cornell-in-China Program, and the University Faculty; also, relations with and the administration of the Law School, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Cornell University Medical College, the College of Engineering, Cornell University Library, the Office of the Comptroller, ROTC, the New York State College of Agriculture, and the New York State Veterinary College, and relations with New York Hospital, the city of Ithaca (N.Y.), the United States Office of Education, the New York State Department of Education, the American Council on Education, the Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Foundation, the Heckscher Research Council, and the United States War Department. Included is a portfolio of photographs by Lewis W. Hine, created for the American Red Cross during a survey mission from 1918-1919.

Other topics include instances of student malfeasance and scholastic failure, racial discrimination and anti-semitism on campus, concern with communist influence in the educational community, and Farrand's personal interests in eugenics and public health. Major correspondents include Arthur Allen, Howard E. Babcock, Carl Becker, Romeyn Berry, Cornelius Betten, Charles Bostwick, Charles K. Burdick, Foster M. Coffin, L. M. Dennis, R. Louise Fitch, Harold Flack, Frank E. Gannett, William A. Hammond, Frank H. Hiscock, Carl E. Ladd, Albert R. Mann, Archie Palmer, George Rogalsky, Flora Rose, Robert Treman, Allan H. Treman, Myron C. Taylor, Martha van Rensselaer, George F. Warren, and J. DuPratt White.

Also included is a bound typewritten report on the state of Cornell University and its current financial needs as of 1924.