Word: ithaca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Track Meet in the Garden Saturday. When the Red team's Coach Jack Moakley was here for the BAA games, he felt that he had the makings of a fine, well balanced squad. And the justification of that prediction was shown at least in part in that meet in Ithaca's Drill Hall as the Cornell trackmen snowed under the Elis on the boards so completely that the bulldog superiority in some of the field events proved useless...
Finally, a standard guarantee to visiting teams as suggested yesterday may enable Cornell, in out-of-the-way Ithaca, to get better home games, thus obviating, perhaps, the present financial necessity of playing some inferior schools merely because of gate receipts. --Cornell Daily...
...book begins at Krebs' famous inn at Skaneatles, wanders to Lily Dale and Chautaqua, back to the Genesee country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories...
...years as president of Cornell University has enriched that old school spiritually and materially. To Brother Livingston, an M. D., Cornell owes its new $60,000,000 Manhattan Medical Centre, many a renowned scholar drawn to Cornell's campus by Lake Cayuga outside Ithaca, N. Y. This week Livingston became the second Farrand to retire...
Meeting in Ithaca, Cornell's trustees with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation...