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Collection contains the autograph album of Dudley Ward Rhodes, with notes and signatures from friends and classmates.

Scope and content Autograph book containing signatures of Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, Behringer's classmates and members of the 1869 faculty; a volume of class notes from his year at Cornell containing a lecture on moral philosophy by William Dexter Wilson; and diplomas and certificates of George F. Behringer. Inlcudes diploma from Cornell's first commencement in 1869. Since Behringer was one of the eight members of the first graduating class and because was first alphabetically this is the very first...

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Photostats of letters describing the opening of the University, student life in Cascadilla, and the military organization of the students.

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One volume of notes by Joseph Benson Foraker taken in Prof. Wilson's Moral Philosophy course, January, 1869.

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Letter, 1868, from Hamilton to his father describing conditions and events at the University during the first term of instruction, particularly a packing crate fire that roused faculty, students, and townspeople on a winter's night; letter from Andrew Dickson White to Hamilton, 1913, thanking him for a friendly note and commenting on the graduation activities in progress at Cornell at the time of his writing.