Archives at Cornell

Cornell Alumni News editor's records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 41-1-1207

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 Howard Stephenson. Also includes a photographs of the East State Street office, ca. 1917-1921.

Scope and content

Files on a controversy regarding a Wedgwood medallion advertised in the Alumni News.