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A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL 
 UNIVERSITY AND ITHACA 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ITHACA 
 
 THACA (resident population 13,136 in 
 1 900) lies partly on an alluvial plain at the 
 head of Cayuga Lake (378 feet above the 
 sea), and partly on the surrounding hills 
 w^hich rise, within the city limits, to an 
 elevation of more than 500 feet above the 
 valley. The region was probably visited 
 by French missionaries to the Iroquois as 
 early as 1652, and in 1779 a detachment of Sullivan's 
 Expedition passed through it (tablet on the Ithaca Hotel), 
 but the first white settlement was not made until 1789 
 (tablet on the Town Hall). Evidences of the prosperity 
 of the village, especially after the opening of the Erie Canal 
 (1825), and the chartering (in 1828) of the Cayuga and 
 Susquehanna Railroad (now the Ithaca Division of the 
 Lackawanna) to connect with Pennsylvania's system of 
 ''slack-water navigation" at Owego, may be seen in the 
 pillared houses on North Geneva Street, and near Dewitt 
 Park, and cspcciallv in the Clinton House on North Cayuga 
 Street, built in 1831, and supposed, in its day, to be the 
 most imposing hotel between New York and Buffalo. 
 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ITHACA 
 
 After leaving the Lehigh Valley station (map, p. 47) on 
 west side of the city, whence there is a good view of East the 
 Hill, crowned by the University buildings, the trolley soon 
 turns into State Street, passing the Lackawanna station 
 (map, p. 46), and in about a mile reaches the corner of 
 Tioga Street, whence a branch (free transfers) runs two miles 
 north to Renwick Park on the lake. 
 
 In the Wilgus Block, S. W. corner of Tioga and State 
 Streets, are the rooms of the Business Men's Association 
 (map, p. 44), which maintains a free bureau of information. 
 
 Continuing on the main line of the street railway, we 
 may proceed to the Cornell Campus by either of two 
 routes. The cars marked "Eddy " climb State Street 
 hill, passing the brown stone Cornell Infirmary, at the cor- 
 ner of Spring Street, and the large gray Cascadilla Place 
 with the adjacent gateway to the University grounds (on 
 the left) just after leaving Eddy Street. At the corner of 
 Huestis Street on the right stands Sheldon Court, a private 
 dormitory for students. Here a branch line (extra fare) 
 diverges to the right through Oak Avenue, passing the 
 buildings of the Cascadilla School (map, p. 44), and leading 
 to the East Ithaca station of the Lehigh Valley. To the 
 north Central Avenue crosses a stone bridge over Casca- 
 dilla ravine to the University Campus, which the railway 
 reaches by another bridge, nearer the Gymnasium. 
 
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 The cars marked " Stewart " turn into that street at the 
 corner bejond the Infirmary, and presently cross Casca- 
 dilla ravine. At the end of the bridge, which affords a 
 
 The Ithaca Falls 
 
 pleasing glimpse of the city below, stands the Town and 
 Gown Club house. A number of the college fraternities 
 have chapter houses hereabouts (see plan, p. 43), and in 
 South Avenue; and there are others, one with a detached, 
 
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 windowless lodge-room of star shape, to the north of Uni- 
 versity Avenue. Then comes a lofty bridge (i 25 feet above 
 the water) spanning Fall Creek Gorge, and affording an at- 
 tractive vista of the valley and of West Hill opposite, seen 
 between the cliffs and over the brink of the beautiful Ithaca 
 Falls. The Forest Fall too, just above the bridge, is 
 still lovely, though sadly defaced by the unsightly "old 
 powerhouse" of the street railway, now abandoned. Our 
 
 The Valley and Cayuga Lake from the University Campus 
 
 car climbs still higher, and in rounding " Inspiration 
 Point" afi-ords a prospect of lake and hill perhaps un- 
 matched for beauty even in this beautiful region. The 
 line continues through the new suburb known as Cornell 
 
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 Heights, passing Highland Avenue (views) which leads to 
 the pretty grounds of the Ithaca Country Club, and then 
 swings to the south, recrossing Fall Creek just below Trip- 
 hammer Fall (72 feet), and the Hydraulic Laboratory (see 
 pp. 33, 43). Thus we enter the Campus from the north 
 instead of the south, and presently meet the Eddy Street 
 car, which descends by Stewart Avenue, while we descend 
 by Eddy Street. The complete circuit, in either direction, 
 is locally known as ''The Loop," and a ride around it will 
 reveal sufficient variety of natural beauty and of archi- 
 tectural effort to interest the most experienced traveler. 
 
 The Stewart Avenue ride brings into view several points 
 associated with the memory of Ezra Cornell. His " farm 
 house," now enlarged, stands in the grove at the corner of 
 South Avenue, and a little to the north and west, near 
 the cemetery, is " Llenroc " (map, p. 44), the larger gray 
 stone house erected in his later years. Some of its exte- 
 rior carvings are exceptionally handsome. The dam be- 
 low the lower Fall Creek bridge diverts part of the water 
 into a tunnel, hewn for three hundred feet through the 
 rock, by building which (he was then only twenty-three 
 years of age) Mr. Cornell substantially improved the 
 water power of the mills below — and incidentally his own 
 finances. 
 
CORNELL'S HISTORY 
 
 Cornell University, founded in 1865, owes its existence 
 to the combined action of the United States Government, 
 as expressed in the ''Morrill Land Grant " ; of the State 
 of New York, in appropriating the funds derived from the 
 Land Grant to the use of Cornell University, and of 
 Ezra Cornell, who gave large sums to the new institu- 
 tion, and who, by his foresight and sound judgment, so 
 managed the lands granted that they yielded a larger return 
 for New York than was secured by any other state. But 
 this endowment was not obtained at once. The first fif- 
 teen years of the University were a struggle for existence, 
 and not until 1882 was she enabled to begin a new life, 
 and to look forward to a development and growth which 
 should enable her, even in small measure, to fulfil the 
 desire of Ezra Cornell to found " an institution where any 
 person can find instruction in any study." 
 
 This growth and development has been due, further, to ' 
 the generous aid of Henry W. Sage, for years Chairman 
 of the Board of Trustees of the University. His gifts 
 were numerous, the most prominent being the Library, 
 with its generous endowment for the purchase of books. 
 Since his death, his sons have continued to serve the Uni- 
 versity by their counsel, and have made large gifts of money 
 and buildings. From other friends besides the Sages, the 
 
Dr. Andrew Dickson White, First President of Cornell University 
 
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 institution has received much aid, and the widening of her 
 sphere of activity is due also in no small measure to the 
 establishment here by the State of New York of Colleges 
 of Veterinary Medicine, and of Agriculture, administered 
 by the University ; and to the generosity of a citizen of 
 New York who built a splendid building for the Medical 
 College in New York City, and furnished means for its 
 maintenance. 
 
 The first president of the University, Andrew D. White, 
 had been associated with Ezra Cornell in the New York 
 Legislature, and had assisted him there in procuring the 
 charter for the new college. Under President White's 
 supervision the educational policies of the University were 
 determined, and were carried out so far as limited means 
 permitted. During these years (1867— 1885) there grew up 
 the spirit of earnest and serious work on the part of stu- 
 dents which is such a characteristic of Cornell life to-day. 
 In this period, too, the extension of all privileges to women 
 was made a permanent policy. The realization of the 
 wishes of the founder has been slowly but steadily brought 
 about under the succeeding administrations of Charles 
 Kendall Adams (1885-1892), and (since 1892) of Jacob 
 Gould Schurman, who have maintained and advanced the 
 institution in a manner worthy of those who first lived and 
 labored here. 
 
 The number of students has shown a steady increase of 
 late, as the figures show: in 1870, 563; 1880, 463; 
 1890, 1,329; 1900, 2,980; 1904, 3,640. 
 
President Jacob Gould Schurman 
 
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 The property of the University amounts at the present 
 time to upwards of twelve million dollars, of which four 
 millions are in real estate and equipment, and eight mil- 
 lions in productive funds. 
 
 Instruction in the University is given throughout the 
 entire year. The regular school year, divided into two 
 terms, extends from the last of September to the last of 
 June. The departments of Invertebrate Zoology and 
 Paleontologv, continue throughout the summer, and there 
 is a summer session of six weeks especially for teachers. 
 Special courses in the winter are given in agriculture and in 
 veterinary science. 
 
THE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS 
 
 The grounds and buildings of the University are situ- 
 ated on the plateau above Cayuga Lake, and to the N. E. 
 of the town, which from its center in the valley has grown 
 far up the hillside. The streams which cross this plateau 
 on their way to Cayuga Lake have eaten deep channels in 
 the soft rock (Portage Sandstone), making the gorges so 
 characteristic of this part of central New York. The Uni- 
 versity lies between two of these gorges, Cascadilla and Fall 
 
 The Entrance to the Campus 
 
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 Creek, and the grounds (about 500 acres) extend one-half 
 mile from south to north, and about a mile back from the 
 west edge or front of the plateau. One hundred acres form 
 a park in which the buildings stand, 50 acres are devoted to 
 an athletic field and play-ground, and 350 acres are for farm 
 and garden purposes, and in forest and woodland. The 
 buildings, above twenty in number, are all used for the pur- 
 poses of instruction. The University has no dormitories 
 
 The Northern Part of the Campus 
 
 except the two buildings for women, Sage College and Sage 
 Cottage. 
 
 The following description of the various buildings be- 
 gins at the south end of the Campus. (See plan on p. 43.) 
 
 Starting from the junction of the street railway and 
 Huestis Street, we cross a stone bridge over Cascadilla 
 Gorge, and proceed north on Central Avenue. A pleas- 
 ant ten-minute walk may be taken by following the Goldwin 
 
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 The Memorial Apse in the Sage Chapel 
 
 Smith Walk (see plan, p. 43) up one side of the gorge, and 
 back to the bridge on the other. Fraternity houses stand 
 on either side of the street at the top of the hill, and on 
 the right is the Armory and Gymnasium of red brick. It 
 is used by the departments of Physical Training and of Mili- 
 tary Science. Immediately back of this (west of the rail- 
 
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 way) is the heating plant which suppHes steam to all uni- 
 versity buildings. The level space in front of the Armory 
 is used as drill and exercise ground. At its north-east 
 corner, close by the railway, stands an Alaskan totem pole. 
 This was brought from a deserted Alaskan Indian village 
 in 1899. It is 30 feet high, and carved with the totem 
 of the halibut, owl and bear tribes. These poles are con- 
 nected with the family and clan relations of the natives, 
 and are rarely seen outside their original homes. 
 
 Continuing our walk towards the north, we cross South 
 Avenue, and bear to the right along the curving road lead- 
 ing past Sage College. Sage College is in no sense an 
 ''annex." It has no separate faculty, nor is separate in- 
 struction here given to women except in physical training. 
 Women meet with men in the same classrooms and under 
 the same teachers. The central portion of the college was 
 erected in 1875, by Henry W. Sage (see tablet over main 
 entrance). The building has been subsequently enlarged, 
 and now contains accommodations for three hundred. At 
 the N. E. corner of the building is the entrance to the 
 women's gymnasium, and on the S. E. are the conserva- 
 tories of the department of botany, where may be seen a 
 fine display of flowers varying according to the season. 
 
 Just after leaving Sage College we cross a small bridge 
 and reach (to the left) Barnes Hall, a building given in 
 1888 as a home for the Cornell University Christian 
 Association, by Alfred S. Barnes of New York. Two 
 rooms on the street floor are of special interest to visitors. 
 
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 The library (first room to the left) contains a choice col- 
 lection of books on Biblical literature, the gift of Gen. 
 Alfred C. Barnes. The walls of the Trophy Room are 
 covered with various prizes and banners won by Cor- 
 nell men in intercollegiate contests. These are all in- 
 scribed, and make an interesting history of the University's 
 athletic activities. At the secretary's office may be ob- 
 tained information (gratuitous) about all matters which con- 
 cern visitors or prospective students. Beyond is the Asso- 
 ciation's reading room (open to all). On the floor above 
 are a large auditorium for lectures, etc., seating 750, and 
 a smaller auditorium known as the '' west dome." 
 
 Directly to the north of Barnes Hall is the Sage Chapel. 
 Of the original building erected in 1874 to serve as a col- 
 lege church, but a small portion (extreme west end) is now 
 standing, the remainder having given way to an enlarged 
 structure. Notable in the main chapel is the Memorial 
 Apse, covered with a Venetian mosaic, the work of Messrs. 
 J. & R. Lamb, of New York, which forms the most ex- 
 tensive scheme of figure mosaics yet attempted in this 
 country. Processions of the sciences flanked by figures of 
 young manhood and beauty, and of the arts flanked by 
 young womanhood and truth, lead up through beauty and 
 truth, respectively, to a central, seated figure of philosophy 
 in the center space, who lifts his eyes from the completed 
 scroll of human wisdom to the mysteries of the Cross, 
 symbolized on the ceiling, where it is surrounded by angels 
 and archangels. Notable further in the main chapel are 
 
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 the mosaic floor by the pulpit; the symbolic decorations of 
 the roof and walls, and the memorial tablets, especially the 
 one in memory of Bayard Taylor (S. W. corner of naye 
 and transept). 
 
 The Memorial Chapel opens from the main chapel at 
 the N. W. end. It contains rich memorial windows by 
 Clayton and Bell, of London, designed to commemorate 
 the connection of Ezra Cornell, John McGraw and Jennie 
 McGraw-Fiske with the University, and to associate them 
 with earlier benefactors of education. Directly beneath the 
 north window is a recumbent figure of Ezra Cornell, in 
 white marble, by William W. Story. Near the entrance 
 is a smaller recumbent figure of Mrs. Andrew D. White, 
 by Ezekiel, of Rome. 
 
 By the terms of the charter of the University, persons 
 of any religious denomination or no religious denomination 
 are equally eligible to all offices and appointments ; but it 
 is expressly ordered that ''at no time shall a majority of 
 the Board of Trustees be of any one religious sect or of 
 no religious sect." Religious services, provided for by the 
 Dean Sage Preachership Endowment, are conducted in 
 Sage Chapel by eminent clergymen of various religious de- 
 nominations. During term time there is an organ recital 
 on every week day except Saturday, at 5 p.m., and once in 
 each week a choral performance. 
 
 Directly north of the chapel is Boardman Hall (main en- 
 trance from the quadrangle, on the north side), devoted 
 exclusively to the uses of the College of Law. \n addition 
 
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 to lecture rooms and offices, it contains a library, excep- 
 tionally complete in reports and treatises on American and 
 English law. 
 
 Of special interest to the visitor are the portraits of great 
 jurists which hang upon the walls of the library room. 
 They are the gift of former President Andrew D. White, 
 who, when presenting them to the University, characterized 
 their originals as follows: First Grotius, who still recog- 
 nized a divine law of justice in the midst of the riot and 
 unreason of the Thirty-Years' War, following as it did 
 upon the heels of seventy similar years on the Netherlands. 
 Second, Thomasius, who struggled to free humanity from 
 examination by torture and to overthrow the belief in witch- 
 craft — the greatest statesman in German history between 
 Luther and Bismarck. Third, William Murray, Earl of 
 Mansfield, in some respects the greatest judge that has 
 ever sat as Chief Justice of England, who made the great 
 declaration that although slavery might exist in the English 
 colonies, a slave was of necessity free on touching the soil 
 of England. Fourth, Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden. 
 Above all things he loved an enlightened constitutional 
 liberty. He therefore stood with Burke and Pitt for the 
 colonies. Fifth, John Marshall, and lastly Chancellor 
 Kent. 
 
 The walls of the lecture rooms on the first floor hold a 
 choice collection of prints of famous lawyers and judges. 
 On the stair-landing stands a bust of Judge Douglas Board- 
 man, first Dean of the College of Law. 
 
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 Directly west of Boardman Hall is the gray stone 
 University Library, with its tall clock tower. The build- 
 ing is 170 by 150 feet in dimension and has a capacity 
 of 475,000 volumes. The number of volumes in the 
 building at present is 280,000 and 45,000 pamphlets. 
 The average annual addition by purchase is about 12,000 
 volumes. The library is made up to an unusual extent of 
 collections gathered by specialists and scholars in various 
 departments. A list of these is given in the University 
 
 The University Library 
 
 Register. The most notable is the Dante collection, pre- 
 sented by Willard Fiske. Upon entering the building we 
 face, hanging upon the staircase, a bronze tablet placed 
 
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 here in memory of Clifton Brown, a student who was killed 
 in the Spanish war. A short flight of steps leads up to a 
 lobby, where are arranged a series of cases for the display 
 of some of the Library's rarities. Cases I— VII contain 
 manuscripts and early books illustrative of the development 
 of the book arts. In case VIII are Waldseemiiller's 
 " Cosmographi^K Introductio, " printed at St. Die in 1507, 
 and open at the passage which first suggested the name 
 "America." Also the Giustiniani Psalter of 15 16, con- 
 taining, in a note to the 19th psalm, the earliest printed 
 biography of Columbus. Other rare Americana are in 
 Case XI, and Case IX contains books from the great Dante 
 Collection. As the west end of the lobby hangs an Egyp- 
 tian papyrus manuscript of the "Book of the Dead." 
 Just to the left of this is an interesting relief map of the 
 region to the south-west of Ithaca, which is well worth 
 studying by excursionists. 
 
 Opening from this lobby to the left is the Periodical 
 Room. Here are kept the current numbers of many of the 
 periodicals (in all over 2,000) received at the Library. The 
 main Reading Room, where the library work of most of the 
 undergraduates is done, contains places for 220 readers. 
 On the wall hang portraits of the founder and of other 
 benefactors and officers of the University. The room 
 contains a selected reference library of 8,000 volumes 
 grouped by subject. These may be used in any part of the 
 reading room by any reader. If additional books are 
 wished they must be sought in the card catalogue and will 
 
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 The Main Reading Room of the Library- 
 be furnished immediately from the stacks. The privilege 
 of removing books for home use is enjoyed by officers of 
 the University and to a limited extent by the more ad- 
 vanced students. Visitors desiring to make special and 
 detailed study of some subject may be admitted to the stack 
 room or to the seminary rooms by special permission. 
 
 The White Library is reached by a short flight of steps 
 from the lobbv, and is open during certain hours of every 
 week day. It contains the historical collections made by 
 President White and presented to the University. Near 
 
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 the fire-place stands the president's chair, with fine wood 
 carving, and busts of Mr. and Mrs. White. The windows 
 on either side affx)rd beautiful views to the north and south. 
 
 Proceeding north from the Library we come to the row 
 of blue stone buildings which are the oldest on the grounds 
 and which are named for benefactors of the University 
 (tablets over the middle entrance to each). Morrill Hall 
 contains the various offices of administration (address in- 
 quiries to the Registrar's office, middle entry), classrooms, 
 and, in the top floor, the laboratory and lecture room of the 
 department of Psychology, with much interesting apparatus 
 for experimental work. The students' cooperative society 
 — The Coop — conducts a book and general supply store 
 in the basement at the north end. 
 
 McGraw Hall, the central one of the three, houses in 
 the south wing the departments of Geology and related 
 sciences, including Geography. First floor, lecture room 
 with relief maps on tables and walls; second floor, labora- 
 tories with interesting maps and models. The laboratory 
 of geography with its equipment, is of particular interest 
 to teachers. 
 
 In the central portion of the building on the first floor, 
 is the Museum of Casts, containing also models and re- 
 productions from ancient works of art. Notable are the 
 Greek vases and the replicas of gold work (case in south 
 room). Catalogues of the museum may be borrowed of 
 the janitor. The second floor, with two galleries, con- 
 tains, in very crowded condition at present, a museum of 
 
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 antiquities : early stone and metal implements, pottery from 
 Central and South America; an Egyptian mummy. Also 
 a collection of objects to illustrate zoology; a large num- 
 ber of anatomical preparations, including the unique collec- 
 tion of brains (case in north end), and specimens of miner- 
 als and fossils. The north wing contains the department 
 of Physiology. 
 
 White Hall is devoted mainly to classrooms. On the 
 third floor (south entrance) is a lecture room (No. 6) 
 of the department of Greek, with a select equipment, in- 
 cluding a fine relief map of Athens, and on the fourth floor 
 the laboratory of the department of Education. Across 
 the hall on the same floor are the rooms of the department 
 
 Central Avenue and the Library I ower 
 
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 of Oratory, containing a fine collection of portraits of Lin- 
 coln. At the north end, second floor, is the laboratory of 
 Entomology. 
 
 At the north end of Central Avenue stands Franklin Hall, 
 a red stone building devoted at present to the work in 
 Physics. It contains collections of physical apparatus (cen- 
 ter entrance, second door to the right), a workshop (base- 
 ment), and a fine equipment (on top floor) for work in pho- 
 tography. To the rear of Franklin Hall stands the Dynamo 
 Laboratory, devoted to experimental work in electricity. 
 
 A new laboratory (Rockefeller Hall) is now (1904) 
 being built for the department of Physics. 
 
 West of Franklin Hall stands the large brick Morse Hall, 
 in whose numerous laboratories every kind of chemical re- 
 search is carried on. On the first floor (to the right) is a 
 chemical library, and on the second floor a large lecture 
 room, with very complete equipment for purposes of dem- 
 onstration, and a museum of chemistry with much inter- 
 esting material. 
 
 We now retrace our steps past Franklin Hall and reach 
 the Sibley College buildings. This college bears the name 
 of Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, a generous giver of funds 
 for its equipment and endowment. It comprises various 
 engineering schools, including mechanical, electrical, marine 
 and railway engineering. The plant is remarkably complete 
 In its collection of apparatus and machinery for investigation 
 and practice. Much of the apparatus used in the work of 
 instruction was built by students of the college. 
 
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 The front row of buildings consists of a central portion, 
 surmounted by a dome, and an east and a west wing. We 
 enter the west wing bv the south door and reach the labor- 
 atories, drafting rooms and work rooms in electrical engin- 
 eering. The drawing rooms on the second and third floors 
 contain much interesting material and models of electrical 
 machinery. Returning to the sidewalk, we enter the cen- 
 tral building, which contains a large museum of machinery 
 and of manufactured products of various descriptions, and 
 a reading room with a large assortment of engineering papers 
 and periodicals. The second and third floors are devoted to 
 an auditorium. Returning once more to the sidewalk we 
 pass to the east wing occupied by the departments of Machine 
 Design and of Marine Engineering. On the second and 
 third floors will be found interesting collections of models of 
 various works, including steamships, and many drawings of 
 similar objects. 
 
 We may pass around the end of these buildings and 
 enter, at the east, the row of buildings immediately to 
 the rear. Here are the laboratories and drawing- rooms 
 in Experimsjital Engineering. Of special interest are the 
 machines, in the second room, on the ground floor, for 
 testing the strength of materials. Crossing the passageway 
 we enter the west building, turn sharply to the left, and 
 reach by a flight of steps the wood-working rooms in the 
 second floor. Visitors may be interested to trace the proc- 
 ess of training in wood and metal work, which students 
 begin in this room. Small wooden models made by them 
 
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 The Blacksmith Shop 
 in their work are given as souvenirs. Returning to the first 
 floor we may pass through the large machine shop with its 
 varied apparatus and reach a room in which the experimental 
 engines are placed, including a 150 horse-power, triple ex- 
 pansion Corliss engine and a steam-turbine. Between the 
 west end of this building and west of the front building is 
 the dynamo room containing a number of dynamos used 
 for furnishing light to the University buildings and for ex- 
 perimental purposes. Following the road between the rear 
 buildings and the gorge, a i^w steps bring us to the black- 
 smith shop and foundry, where visitors will be interested in 
 seeing the actual work performed by students. 
 
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 The Sibley College buildings close the north end of 
 the Campus. We now turn back to Lincoln Hall, the 
 red stone building at the east of the quadrangle, occupied 
 by the Colleges of Civil Engineering and of Architecture. 
 Entering at the N. W. corner we pass up to the main floor 
 and turn left into the Museum, which contains a large col- 
 lection of models of construction, photographs of great en- 
 gineering works and instruments of every kind. On the 
 floor above are the offices of the U. S. Weather Bureau, 
 where the interesting process of making up the daily weather 
 map may be seen. The building contains in its laboratories 
 (basement floor) a large equipment for work in geodesy, in 
 cement testing, in bridge building and in photography. We 
 pass through the central hall of the building to the south 
 end and ascend to the second floor, where the College of 
 Architecture is housed. At the S. W. corner is the fine 
 library of the college, a collection of special works in this 
 field, many of them magnificently illustrated. The walls 
 of the passageways are covered with drawings and illus- 
 trations of architectural works, and the College posseses 
 a large collection of architectural photographs. 
 
 Directly east of Lincoln Hall, across East Avenue, is the 
 new Rockefeller Hall, now being constructed for the depart- 
 ment of Physics. 
 
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 was erected by the State, but has been purchased by the 
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 Goldwin Smith Hall (shown on the plan but not yet finished), 
 which will be the home of the humanities. 
 
 We cross President's Avenue and enter Stimson Hall, 
 devoted to Anatomy and Histology, and to Medicine 
 as far as that subject is taught in Ithaca. A tablet by 
 the north door bears a dedicatory inscription. The labor- 
 atories of the first and second floors, together with the appa- 
 ratus for teaching and investigation, are freely shown to visi- 
 tors; but the dissecting rooms upon the top floor are opened 
 only upon special permission, to be obtained from the sec- 
 retary. The last half of the course in the College of Medi- 
 cine, demanding clinical facilities, is pursued in New York 
 City only. 
 
 Directly at the head of President's Avenue, in a 
 grove, stands the residence of Andrew D. White, the first 
 president of the University. Turning south on East 
 Avenue, we reach the New York State Veterinary College, 
 erected by the State in 1894. The yellow brick build- 
 ings stand back from the street in a group by them- 
 selves. Visitors should not fail to notice the water 
 garden in front of the main building. Entering the build- 
 ing itself by either door the Museum is reached. Above 
 this are the various laboratories and private work rooms. 
 At the north end we may pass through the large lecture hall 
 to the dissecting rooms. Back of the main building are 
 the operating theatre and hospital accommodations for the 
 animals under treatment. The whole plant furnishes a 
 complete equipment for work in its field. The Act passed 
 
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 by the State Legislature in 1904 for the establishment of a 
 State College of Agriculture provides for the erection of other 
 buildings in this immediate vicinity. 
 
 Just south of the Veterinary College stands the Fueretes 
 Observatory^ erected in 1903 by General Alfred C. Barnes. 
 It contains an outfit for astronomical work. 
 
 Surrounding this are the gardens and orchards of the 
 department of Horticulture, where interesting experiments 
 in the growing of fruits and flowers are carried on. Fine 
 displays of both are to be seen in their appropriate seasons. 
 Garden Avenue bounds the gardens on the east. Be- 
 yond it lies the new Athletic Field of 50 acres, now 
 (1904) under construction. Visitors may now return to 
 Soufh Avenue and the street railway; or, turning north on 
 Garden Avenue, may reach the reservoir which affords a 
 fine view of the entire grounds and of the surrounding 
 country. The large barns of the department of Agri- 
 culture lie to the east. A path leads north through the 
 field to Beebe Lake (p. 43). The road to the northwest 
 leads to the street railway. 
 
 (mC-/ 
 
THE VICINITY OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 Fall Creek Gorge and Beebe Lake. These beautiful bits 
 of scenery are best reached from the bridge near the north 
 end of East Avenue. A path along the south side of the 
 
 The Hydraulic Laboratory and Beebe Lake 
 
34 A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNIFERSITT 
 
 ravine leads to the Hydraulic Laboratory, which is built into 
 the side of the gorge itself in a picturesque way, and con- 
 tains a complete plant for work in hydraulics. Continuing 
 by the path we pass the women's boathouse, on the border 
 of the lake, and reach (^y^ mile) the hamlet of Forest Home. 
 Visitors may return direct to the Campus, or they may cross 
 the bridge, follow the road (left) to the top of the short hill, 
 and there turn into the field through the bars, thus reaching 
 the Campus by an easy but rather obscure footpath along 
 the north side of the stream. 
 
 Those who wish to descend into the gorge may take a 
 long flight of steps immediately back of the blacksmith 
 shop (see plan, p. 43) and cross the ravine by the swinging 
 oridge. Thence a path leads along the stream up to the 
 foot of Triphammer Fall, or down, under the higher swing- 
 ing bridge, to the old powerhouse of the street railway 
 company (p. 43) and beyond that by a gradual ascent of the 
 bank of the stream to the north end of the Stewart Avenue 
 bridge. From this point a path, narrow in places, but 
 safe, except in wet weather, when it is sometimes very 
 slippery, leads down to the top of the Ithaca Fall. There 
 is no way of getting out of the gorge on the north side be- 
 low the fall, but when the water is low pedestrians may 
 cross on the top of the dam, and pass out through the 
 tunnel (pp. 7, 43). 
 
 North of Franklin Hall a path leads down to the 
 swing bridge crossing the gorge to Cornell Heights. 
 From the south end of this bridge, a path runs along the 
 
A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNIFERSITT 35 
 
 side of the gorge to the Stewart Avenue bridge and the 
 street railway, and further to the tunnel if desired. 
 
 The Cornell Boathouse (map, p. 44) is situated on the banks 
 of the Inlet. Visitors may take the street-car to its terminus 
 at the Lehigh Valley station, cross the bridge on Buffalo 
 Street and follow the footpath on the east side of the Inlet 
 
 The Cornell Boathouse 
 
 until the Boathouse is reached. During the boating sea- 
 son various crews start hence for practice about five o'clock 
 in the afternoon and the premises afford a lively and interest- 
 ing picture. 
 
EXCURSIONS 
 
 View Points abound on the hills adjacent to Ithaca. 
 Especially fine are those just north of the Country Club, 
 affording a prospect of the lake and of the Newlield hills 
 to the S.W. The highest of these (Connecticut Hill) 
 reaches the altitude of 21 00 feet. An attractive prospect 
 of the city and the lake is afforded by the hill just south of 
 the upper switch of the Lackawanna Railroad, and near to 
 the Danby road. Bald Hill (1280 feet) may be reached in 
 45 minutes walk from the Campus and commands 30 miles 
 of the lake. The view from Turkey Hill (map, p. 46) is sim- 
 ilar, and even more extensive. 
 
 Renwick Park, at the south-east corner of Cayuga 
 Lake, is reached by the Tioga Street branch of the street 
 railway (free transfer from the Campus line). It is a pleas- 
 ant place in which to pass an hour, especially when the sun 
 hangs low over the western hills. A band furnishes excel- 
 lent music here in the evening, and during part of the time 
 a vaudeville performance is given in one of the pavilions. 
 From the dock nearby various steamers start for Cayuga 
 and intermediate points, including Aurora, the seat of 
 Wells College for women. During the summer a small 
 boat usually runs several times in the forenoon, and every 
 hour or so in the afternoon, to Glenwood (hotel), and to 
 the cottages along the west shore of the lake as far as Crowbar 
 Point (map, p. 46). This ride, which takes about two hours, 
 
A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNIFERSITT 37 
 
 is especially attractive just at evening. Rowboats may be 
 hired at the dock, and sailboats are also to be had, but sail- 
 ing is dangerous for persons unacquainted v^^ith the lake, 
 which is exposed to sudden and quickly changing gusts of 
 
 wind. 
 
 By following the railroad track or the highway along 
 the east shore of the lake, visitors may reach in ten or 
 fifteen minutes the works of the Remington Salt Company 
 and see the entire process of manufacturing salt, which is 
 here found about 2,000 feet below the surface. Water is 
 forced down to the salt stratum and when saturated, is 
 pumped up and evaporated and the salt refined. The 
 steam, used in the process of evaporation is first made to 
 furnish electric power for the street railway. 
 
 The George Junior Republic (map, p. 46) may be 
 reached by the L. V. R. R. (from the East Ithaca Sta- 
 tion) to Freeville, or by a carriage drive of about 10 miles, 
 by any one of the roads shown on the map. Of these, the 
 shortest route and that usually in the best condition is the 
 Dryden road. In dry weather a most pleasant route is via 
 University Avenue and the north edge of the Campus, and 
 Forest Home, joining the first route near Varna. Turn 
 to the left from the Dryden Road at Willow Glen. The 
 road on the north side of Fall Creek through Etna is also 
 attractive, but it is more hilly, and portions of it are some- 
 times in bad condition. 
 
 The purpose of William R. George, who founded the 
 Republic in 1895, was the reclamation of way ward children 
 
38 A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNirERSITT 
 
 by removing thcni from town conditions and placing them 
 where each might feel his individual responsibility for suc- 
 cess or failure. To this end a miniature republic was in- 
 stituted, the citizens having their own government officials, 
 police officers and courts, and their own currency, and their 
 state was organized and is conducted on the principle 
 " nothing without labor." Both boys (of 14—17 years of 
 age) and girls (of 12-16 years) are received into the Junior 
 Republic. The whole number is limited to 115. 
 
 Enfield Glen (7 miles, see map, p. 46). A mile beyond 
 Buttermilk Falls, which may be reached from South Cayuga 
 Street by the Spencer Road or from West State Street by 
 the Inlet Road, we diverge to the right (the road on the left 
 leads to Spencer) and soon turn to the right again, ascending 
 rapidly through woods for about a mile. Another mile, less 
 steep and with line views of the Danby hills to the south, 
 brings us, beyond the school house, to a side road (left) 
 which soon descends steeply to the hamlet of Enfield Falls. 
 The path to the glen starts by the inn on the north side of 
 the stream — Butternut Creek — and leads through fields and 
 over a foot bridge to " The Flume," a miniature reproduc- 
 tion of Ausable Chasm, though in a very different geological 
 formation. The path, proceeding on ledges and by rock- 
 hewn steps, and crossing the stream again, emerges at length 
 above a large square chamber known as The Devil's Din- 
 ing Room. A short distance below, the path, clinging to 
 the side of the cliff, brings us to the head of Lucifer Fall, 
 probably the most beautiful waterfall in all this land of 
 
A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNIFERSITr 39 
 
 streams. Beyond this point the path, partly supported on 
 a trestle, is a trifle dizzy in places, but quite safe for the 
 steady-headed, and the view of the cascade with the fern- 
 clad bank opposite, richly repays the effort necessary to reach 
 the foot of the Fall. From this point to the Inlet the creek 
 is uninteresting, and it is better to retrace our steps to the 
 road above. Parties who drivfe may find it pleasant to cross 
 the highway bridge beyond the inn, following the road up 
 Butternut Creek, skirt Key Hill (1,550 feetj, and return 
 by way of Newfield village, keeping the road on the north 
 side of Newfield Creek. The distance by this route is about 
 5 miles further, but the views between Newfield and Ithaca 
 will compensate for the detour. 
 
 Taughannock Falls (map, p. 46) is reached by the L. V. 
 R. R. or by a carriage drive of 9 miles. The fall itself, 215 
 feet, is the highest single fall east of the Rocky Mountains. 
 The perpendicular walls of the surrounding amphitheatre, 
 rising to nearly 400 feet, and the winding course of the 
 ravine below, combine to make an impressive scene. A 
 road skirting the northern edge of the ravine runs from 
 the hotel to the lake (about a mile). The first half mile 
 affords striking views into the depths of the gorge at the 
 right and over the lake to the left. The visitor to Taugh- 
 annock should not omit to see these, perhaps the most at- 
 tractive features of the place. About a quarter of a mile 
 below the hotel a steep but well built path quits the road at 
 a small rustic building and leads down the north side of the 
 gorge to the foot of the falls. Thence it is possible, in dry 
 
40 A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL UNIFERSITT 
 
 Taughannock Falls 
 weather, to make one's way down the ravine to '< the 
 point," but a return to the road by the path is more advis- 
 able. On the grounds of the hotel there is a pavilion com- 
 manding an extensive view of the lake, especially fine 
 towards sunset. 
 
 Slaterville Springs (map, p. 46) enjoys some reputa- 
 tion as a summer resort on account of its pure air and 
 
A GUIDE BOOK TO CORNELL VNIVERSITY 41 
 
 magnetic iron springs. It is nine miles from Ithaca and is 
 reached either by the valley road, a continuation of East 
 State Street and macadamized as a state road for part of the 
 way \ or by the Ellis Road, a continuation of iMitchell Street 
 which diverges left from East State Street, just east of Eddy 
 Street. The part of this road between Ellis and Slaterville 
 is very bad in wet weather. A third road, via Snyder Hill, 
 lies between these two and affords some extensive views. 
 
 RAVINES 
 
 Good walkers, not averse to scrambling, will find inter- 
 esting a climb through the gorges of Six Mile Creek, But- 
 termilk Creek, Lick Brook and Coy's Glen, all of which 
 contain numerous cascades and an extremely varied flora. 
 A trip to any one of these occupies half a day. 
 
RAILROADS AND HOTELS 
 
 Ithaca is reached by cither the Lackawanna (a branch 
 leaving the main line at Owego), or by the Lehigh Valley 
 railroad. Through sleeping cars run from New York over 
 both roads, and through trains from Buffalo and New York 
 on the Lehigh. Lehigh trains on the Cayuga Lake branch 
 run also from Ithaca to Auburn and from the East Ithaca 
 Station to Freeville, Auburn, Elmira, Cortland and Can- 
 astota. (See map, p. 47.) 
 
 Hotels are the Ithaca Hotel (;^2.oo-3.5o), the Clinton 
 House ($2—3) and the Tompkins House (;$i.50 per day). 
 Visitors can almost always obtain lodgings in one of the 
 numerous houses in the eastern part of the city, and restau- 
 rants and boarding houses abound both in the business part of 
 the town and in and near Huestis and Eddy streets on East 
 Hill. Persons contemplating a prolonged stay will be helped 
 to find quarters if they apply at the secretary's office in 
 Barnes Hall (plan of Campus, p. 43). 
 
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 7. Congregational Church. 
 
 8. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 9. Presbyterian Church. 
 
 10. Park Baptist Church. 
 
 11. Ithaca High School. 
 
 12. Clinton House. 
 
 13. Lyceum Theatre. 
 
 14. Post Office. 
 
 15. Tompkins County National Bank. 
 
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 17. Ithaca Trust Company. 
 
 18. Postal Telegraph Company. 
 
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 20. Ithaca Savings Bank. 
 
 21. City Hall. 
 
 22. New Post Office Site. 
 
 23. City Hospital. 
 
 24. Aurora Street Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 25. Unitarian Church. 
 
 26. Tompkins House. 
 
 27. New Ithaca Hotel. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Architecture, College of, 30, 32 
 
 Armory and Gymnasium, the, 4, 
 15. 16 
 
 Athletic Field, the, 32 
 
 Barnes Hall, 16 
 
 Beebe Lake, 32, 33, 43 
 
 Blacksmith Shop, the, 29 
 
 Boardman Hall, 18, 20 
 
 Boathouse, Cornell, 35 
 
 Butternut Creek, 3S, 39, 41 
 
 Campus, routes to, 4, 34; entrance 
 to, 7, 13 (view); description of, 
 14; buildings on, 14-32; vicinity 
 of, 33-35; plan of, 43 
 
 Cascadilla Ravine, 4, 5, 13, 14 
 
 Cayuga Lake, 3, 6 (view), 13. 36, 37 
 
 Central Avenue, 25 (view), 260 
 
 Chapter houses on Campus, 5, 15,43 
 
 Clinton House, 42 
 
 "Coop." The, 24 
 
 Cornell, Ezra, farmhouse of, 7 ; 
 founds college, 8; in legislature, 
 10; memorial window to, 18; re- 
 cumbent statue of, 18 
 
 Cornell Heights, 6, 34 
 
 Cornell Infirmary. 4, 5 
 
 Cornell University, history of, 8, 
 10, 12; buildings of, 13-32 
 
 Cornell University Christian Asso- 
 ciation, 16, 17 
 
 Country Club, the, 7, 36 
 
 Coy's Glen, 41 
 
 Dante Collection, the, 21 
 
 Dynamo Laboratory, the, 26 
 
 Eddy Street trolley line, 4, 7 
 
 Enfield Glen, 38, 46 
 
 Engineering departments and build- 
 ings, 27, 30 
 
 Excursions, 36, 41 
 
 Fall Creek, 7, 37 
 
 Fall Creek Gorge, 6, 13 
 
 Franklin Hall, 26, 34 
 
 Fueretes Observatory, 32 
 
 George Junior Republic, the, 37, 
 38 
 
 Goldwin Smith Hall, 31 
 
 Goldwin Smith Walk, 14, 15, 43 
 
 Hotels, directions concerning, 42 
 
 Hydraulic Laboratory, location of, 
 7, 43; view of, 33 
 
 Ithaca, historical sketch of, 3; gen- 
 eral description of, 4; railroads 
 to, 42; hotels of, 42; map of a 
 portion of the city of, 44; key to 
 map, 45; map of vicinity of, 46 
 
 Ithaca Falls, 5, 6, 34 
 
 Ithaca Hotel, 42 
 
 Library, the University, 21, 24 
 
 Lick Brook, 41 
 
 Lincoln Hall, 30 
 
 " Llenroc," 7, 44 
 
 " Loop," the, trolley circuit, 7 
 
 McGraw Hall, 24 
 
 Machine Shop, 28, 29 
 
 Memorial Chapel, 18 
 
 Morrill Hall, 24 
 
 Morse Hall, 26 
 
 Museum of Casts, 24, 25 
 
 Railroads, to and from Ithaca, 42; 
 map of routes, 47 
 
 Rockefeller Hall, 26, 30 
 
 Sage Chapel, memorial apse in, 15; 
 description of, 17, 18; interior 
 view of, 19 
 
 Sage College, 14, 16 
 
 Sage Cottage, 14 
 
 Schurman, Jacob Gould, 10, 11 
 
 Sibley College, 26-30 
 
 Six Mile Creek, 41 
 
 Slatcrville Springs, 40, 41 
 
 State Street trolley line, 4 
 
 Stewart Avenue bridge, 34, 35 
 
 Stewart Avenue trolley line, 5, 7 
 
 Stimson Hall, 3-1 
 
 Taughannock Falls. 39, 40, 46 
 
 Tioga street trolley line 4, 36 
 
 Tompkins House, 42 
 
 Town and Gown Club-house, 5 
 
 Triphammer Falls. 7, 34 
 
 Turkey Hill, 36, 46 
 
 Veterinary College, New York 
 State, 31 
 
 White, Dr. Andrew Dickson, 9, 10, 
 20, 23, 24 
 
 White Hall, 25 
 
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