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Programs, newspaper clippings, student publications, correspondence relating to student activities, reports to alumni and newspaper clippings concerning the marriage of Andrew D. White to Helen Magill.

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Letters documenting her freshman year at Cornell detail her finances, roommates, snobbery, contact with Liberty Hyde Bailey and Andrew Dickson White, concerts, dances, churches, and living arrangements. Also, photograph of Carol Maidment.

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...

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Account of student activities at Risley Hall (a women's dormitory at Cornell University) kept by Warden Gertrude Nye, including descriptions of the Women's Dramatic Club, the Student Government Association, and social events written by residents of Risley; copied letters from Andrew Dickson White to Margaret Olivia Slocum (Mrs. Russell) Sage concerning her gift of the building to Cornell; and 1910-11 programs and newspaper clippings.

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Business and personal correspondence, briefs, legal materials, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, daybooks and a variety of documentation