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Lecture notes.

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Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Morehouse and Lang family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-740
Scope and content Papers of Herbert Harrison Morehouse (Cornell Class of 1889) include a series of letters to his family concerning student life, with reference to freshman-sophomore contests, sports, cider raids, military drill, Bible classes and church services, a Henry George meeting (October 1887), excursions to local scenic places, his class schedules, and readings by Professor Hiram Corson, as well as a letter (1890) from Robert Henry Thurston, congratulating him on his new position in Central America,...
Dates: 1843-1954,-1885-1954 (bulk)

Notebook on Vladimir Nabokov's lectures

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093385205]
Identifier: 4691
Scope and content

Notes taken by Cornell University student Patricia Lee Wells (later Lunneborg) while attending Vladimir Nabokov's lectures for Literature 312 during the spring of 1955. Approximately 95 leaves of hand written notes in a Cornell University three-ring binder.

Dates: 1955.

Romyn Hitchcock papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2174
Abstract

Papers of Romyn Hitchcock, a chemist and lecturer on the Orient, include correspondence, lecture notes, monographs, government bulletins and other pamphlet material, newspaper clippings, and maps. Collection is primarily concerned with Chinese-American diplomatic relations; spheres of influence; problems of Chinese immigration, including low wages, tong societies, and the Chinese Exclusion Act; and the geography, art, religion, and customs of China and Japan.

Dates: 1841-1900,-1882-1900 (bulk).

William Elliot Griffis papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 750
Scope and content Three notes to Griffis from Moses Coit Tyler concerning a review of Tyler's recently published book; one note from Professor Charles H. Hull acknowledging a note of congratulation; and photocopy of a certificate from the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, signed by Griffis, to the Province of Friesland. Also, lecture notes, clippings, and correspondence on religions of Japan and China, circa 1883-1897, together with notes on Japanese music and modern Japan. Religions discussed...
Dates: 1883-1908.

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.