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...managers scored their runs on a home run by M. T. Freeman '30, first team manager, and a triple and a single by H. W. Sibley '31, assistant manager. The feature fielding play was a double play turned in by E. S. Newbury '32 and Anton Barlingame 30, of the winning team
Hiram Watson Sibley '31, of Rochester, New York...
...them Minnesota, Stanford. Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists won international fame. Cornell coffers overflowed with the wealth of Hiram Sibley, Henry W. Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob...
...Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting...
Hiram Watson Sibley '31, of Rochester, New York...