New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-16

the checkerboard farms of the Enfield Valley
and its side hills.
This is the most beautiful place in the world
father" says the boy.
Men who study under such surroundings
should be great and good" said the man.
Like YOU father declared the boy.
They left the Grecian surroundings and re-
turned TO their examination of the university.
a great auditorium and gymnasium hid Sage
College from view. When the boy finally saw it
lie wanted to know what that convent-like build
ing was doing on the grounds. 1t is the home
OF the co-eds." explains the father, "a relic of
the days when Cornell was building up any old
way and glad to be building"
Back on the ridge. where once stood Faculty
Row the odd grad finds one familiar building.
the Veterinary College. on side Of it is the
home Of the Agricultural College and on the
other the home OF the New York State College
, Of Forestry. The whole is known as the state
Court between the buildings can be seen the
three domes Of the observatory. now one of the
old buildings. it having been finished the year
the father left college The big brick mansion
long the home of President Andrew u. White
Corncrs Grand old Man." still stands the
official residence.
Most striking is the change in the old quad
raugle. The Rockefeller Hall of Physics closes
! the north end, shutting of the red stone walls
of Lincoln Han entirely and permitting just
glimpse of old Sibley through its OXford-like
arches and a CLINT Of the brilliant dome through
a break in the roof line. Even the little stone
building that once sheltered the Dairy has been
absorbed into the group. y low building. paral-
lei to Central-a ave. sheltering the heavy expert
mental machinery of the college and the old
Sibley buildings, completes a smaller quad
rangle Familiarity known the engineering
quad" Sibley. stiH growing in size and i'm
portance. has reached out an arm around Lin
coin Hall for a necessary annex.
McGraw. Hall. with its old fashioned tower
facing out Of the main quadrangle, looks down
upon the many new buildings below in a faith
erly way, and with its aged neighbor-White
Hail-adds the necessary touch of dignity
which comes from aged things. Morrill, Hail.
which once completed the trio the rim of the
hill. and formed the western side of the main
quad" has disappeared, that the western vista
might be opened up.
The library, Boardman Hail. with its lawyers,
and Stmson, Iilled with young physicians, form
the fourth side of the quadrangle while The
Arts Court of three handsome buildings. the
Goodwin Smith group, the home of the ''Humani-
ties of the university course, is the strik-
ing feature of the fourth. 1t has the site for
merly occupied by three faculty residences.
Father and sit on stone bench-a gift
of the first president, which has come down from
the long ago-to think it over.
II will surely get lost among all these build
ings father. 1t is worse than New-YOrk."
mot so, my son." replies the father. But you
might have lost yourself in the days when I
was n student here. Our work scattered
from one end of the campus to the other, and Il
fellow had to carry a chart to keep himself
straight Now each course is punched by itself
and you will find the problem simple one"
Then they went to the Administration Build
| ing, one smaller than the others and in the cor