Ira E. Clark and Henry G. Pollock were roommates and both members of the Class of 1872, Cornell University. The collection consists of student items saved by the two boys: a Directory of the Cornell University for 1872 and an Outline of a Course of History...by A.D. White under the imprint of the University Press; programs for the Philalatheian and Irving Literary Societies (1870); broadsides of the courses given at Cornell, one of which has titles of books with prices that were used by the students; copies of examinations given in History and Logic in 1872; the printed specifications for Sage College; two early numbers of the Cornell Times (Vol. I, No. 1 and No. 30); and the obituitary notices of Prof. William C. Cleveland, the first professor at Cornell to die, which were published in the Ithaca Daily Democrat and the Ithaca Journal in 1873.