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Includes files involving Peace Corps activities at Cornell,and Blanchard Rideout's role in Frank Rhodes' inaugeration and as marshall for the 1971-1979 commencement ceremonies. Also correspondence with Morris Bishop, and drafts of his memorial statement which Blanchard wrote, including an explanation of the quote found on the memorial plaque to Bishop in Sage Chapel.

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Programs of concerts and recitals at Cornell University.

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Collection consists mainly of orders of service for Vespers services in Sage Chapel (1906-1915). Also included are two pamphlets on the Young Women's Christian Association on campus, a leaflet on the lectures that Gerald Heard was to give for the Thorp Lectureship at Cornell (May 1959), and the order of service for a Sunday morning in Sage Chapel (September 17, 1961).

Scope and content Engravings of entrance to Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell University campus, by Albert Edward Milliken. Also engravings of Sage Chapel, the Library Tower, and the statue of Ezra Cornell, by Milliken, with poems by Albert W. Smith. Framed engravings of the Tower, Sage Chapel, and the statue by Milliken, and of the War Memorial by Kenneth Washburn. Scope and Contents Page...

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Sample typewritten copies of contracts used for work in connection the effigies of Andrew Dickson White and Goldwin Smith in Sage Chapel.

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Article describing Doll's damage to the Sage Chapel organ, and correcting Morris Bishop's account of an organ damaging in his HISTORY OF CORNELL.

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...

Abstract 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,...

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1873-1874 ledger book, cash book, check book and checks, 1983-1874; Curtis's book pertaining to estimates and accounts of additions to Sage Chapel, 1898; and Charles Babcock's book of estimates and specifications for additions to Sage Chapel and other buildings, 1903-1906. Also copy of a plan, "Addition to the Chapel," 1898.

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Program for the "Formal Opening of the New Sage Chapel Organ," 1910; program for the organ recital by Edwin Arthur Kraft, 1910; Sage Chapel program, 1990; and "The 50th Anniversary of the Sage Chapel Organ," by Donald M. Patterson, 1990.