Abstract

Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904).

Scope and content

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.

Scope and content Reminiscences, 1953-1954, of Ellen Coit Brown, who married Orrin Leslie Elliott, include descriptions of Cornell University President Andrew Dickson White and Professor George Lincoln Burr (with whom Miss Brown worked as an assistant in President White's library after graduation), and a description of women students at Cornell, their attitudes and activities (1878-1882). Also, a small book of poems by Ellen Coit Brown Elliott; annotated volume of The Cornell Review, 1880-1881; A.D. White's...

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...