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  2. List of Cornell University fraternities and sororities ...

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    The Delta Phi fraternity house at Cornell. During the 1948-1949 school year, then Cornell University President Edmund Ezra Day formally distanced the university leadership and the increased discrimination that he observed at Cornell since 1910. His speech at the time marked the beginning of an effort to end such unlawful practices, a goal to ...

  3. Lauriston Sharp - Wikipedia

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    Lauriston Sharp (March 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993) was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University.He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university, and he created its Southeast Asia Program, research centers in Asia and North and South America, a multidisciplinary faculty and strong language program.

  4. Give My Regards to Davy - Wikipedia

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    Tee Fee Crane and "Davy" in the 1910s "Give My Regards to Davy" is Cornell University's primary fight song.The song's lyrics were written in 1905 by Cornell alumni Charles E. Tourison (1905), W. L. Umstad (1906), and Bill Forbes (1906), a trio of roommates at Beta Theta Pi, and set to the tune of George M. Cohan's "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  5. Quill and Dagger - Wikipedia

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    Quill and Dagger Tower on Cornell University's West Campus. Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University, founded in 1883.In 1929, The New York Times stated that election into Quill and Dagger and similar societies constituted "the highest non-scholastic honor within reach of undergraduates."

  6. Sage Hall - Wikipedia

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    Cornell felt the same way about the university; religious conservatives described the university in its early years as "Godless Cornell." In 1873, when the cornerstone of Sage Hall was laid, [7] Ezra Cornell wrote a letter for posterity—dated May 15, 1873—and sealed it into the cornerstone. No copies of the letter were made, and Cornell ...

  7. New York State College of Forestry at Cornell - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, the New York State College of Forestry opened at Cornell, which was the first forestry college in North America. [2] Because some of the students were transfer students, even though the College had a four-year curriculum, it graduated students during each of the five years of its operation, and the demand for students with Cornell forestry degrees exceeded the supply.

  8. Stephen J. Ceci - Wikipedia

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    Stephen J. Ceci is an American psychologist at Cornell University.He studies the accuracy of children's courtroom testimony (as it applies to allegations of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect), and he is an expert in the development of intelligence and memory.

  9. Alpha Phi Alpha - Wikipedia

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    The fraternity addresses social issues such as apartheid, AIDS, urban housing, and other economic, cultural, and political issues of interest to people of color. National programs and initiatives of the fraternity include A Voteless People Is a Hopeless People, My Brother's Keeper, Go To High School, Go To College, Project Alpha, and the World ...