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Includes one letter from Jacob Gould Schurman (1893) denying Miss Percy (later Mrs. Alton Winslow Leighton) permission to leave Sage College at the beginning of the spring term, and letters from Moses Coit Tyler, Samuel Gardner Williams, Oliver Farrer Emerson, Waterman Thomas Hewett, and George Lincoln Burr recommending her for a teaching position; also, photographs, programs, and other Cornelliana.

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Two diaries kept while a student living in Sage College at Cornell University; also, correspondence, essays, clippings, and photographs, some of which deal with Protestant missionary work in China.

Scope and content Letter to Miss Rhoda E. Mead of Waterbury, Connecticut, in which George White describes the beauties of the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York, and Cayuga Lake, and the work that he and Mrs. White did to assist her brother, E.P. Gilbert, in the management of Sage College for Women, and the electrification of the building. White adds that he would not want his daughter, Georgia Laura, then a student at Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio, to enter Cornell as an undergraduate...

Scope and content Approximately 110 letters from Gertrude (later Mrs. Reinhard A. Wetzel) and Ruth Nelson to their parents while living at Sage College colorfully portray university and coed life in the nineties, and include descriptions of life at Sage College, courses and examinations, comments about professors, dating, parties, football games, clubs, Bible classes, activities at Sage Chapel, and prices of clothing in Ithaca. Special observations are made on such outstanding Cornell figures as George...

Scope and content Ira E. Clark and Henry G. Pollock were roommates and both members of the Class of 1872, Cornell University. The collection consists of student items saved by the two boys: a Directory of the Cornell University for 1872 and an Outline of a Course of History...by A.D. White under the imprint of the University Press; programs for the Philalatheian and Irving Literary Societies (1870); broadsides of the courses given at Cornell, one of which has titles of books with prices that were used by the...

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Letter in which White thanks Webb for his gift to the Cornell University Library; mentions the gift of Sage College; and discusses White's visit to the Rev. Samuel Joseph May, where they talked of "anti-slavery matters" and May's gift of the Prudence Crandall portrait to Cornell, and May's death.

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An episode of '73, a handwritten reminiscence about the laying of the cornerstone of Sage College at Cornell University, written ca. 1919. Also, program for Class Day exercises, 1886; letters from Jacob Gould Schurman, T. F. Crane, and George P. Bristol; obituary, February 9, 1940; and printed remarks by Andrew Dickson White on the selection of his successor, 1885.

Scope and content Lead box found in the cornerstone of Sage Hall included a letter from Ezra Cornell; photographs of Henry W. Sage and Susan Linn Sage; a copy of the Cornell University Registers from 1868-69, 1869-70, 1870-71, 1871-72, and 1872-73 (2 copies); Cornell University Laws and Documents; the Cornell Era, May 9, 1873; the Evening Journal Almanac, 1873; and newspapers from May 14, 1873, including The Ithaca Journal, The Ithaca Daily Democrat, and The New-York Times. Also, photographs of the opening...