Scope and content Files of John Marcham, editor of the Cornell Alumni News, contain correspondence, background material for articles, clippings, notes, photographs, letters to the editor, and other materials pertaining to Cornell University, campus figures, college pranks, student unrest and the Willard Straight takeover, and many other topics relating to the university. Included are files relating to the reprinting of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, and correspondence and an outline of a biography of...

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Letters and replies to a questionnaire conducted by John Marcham for the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, published October 1974.

Abstract

This collection contains materials relating to Cornell University's Centennial Celebration which took place in 1965. Planning material, correspondence, speeches and photographs all detail the events which took place in celebration of Cornell University's 100th year.

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Includes two letters from Loewenberg to John Marcham, editor of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, one letter to Loewenberg from Howard Cusack, and two clippings concerning publication of the May 1926 issue of THE CORNELL GRAPHIC which resulted in the suspension of 18 undergraduates for using "very poor taste" in editing the issue.