Cornell History
Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White when founding the university wanted to take a progressive approach to education, where the university would "be open to applicants ... without distinction as to rank, class, previous occupation, or locality." thus Cornell's unofficial moto is
any person any study
Name three famous Cornell Alums
RBG, 胡适, Bill Nye, Bill Maher, 蔡英文 etc etc
Biggest Building on campus
Barton Hall, which is maintained by New York state and was built almost a century ago, covers almost two acres.
Cornell is the first school to establish many majors in the United States. Name two
ILR
American Studies
American History
9 billioners has graduated from Cornell. Name 2
Clara Dickson Hall
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Toni Morrison received a Master's Degree from Cornell University in 1955.Name two of her novels
The Bluest Eye (1970),
Sula (1973),
Song of Solomon (1977),
Beloved (1987)
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
Remember (2004)
Cornell was the first Co-Ed school in the united states. Who was its first female graduate of Cornell and what did she study?
Her name was Emma Sheffield Eastman, Class of 1873. She was born in New Hampshire and transferred from Vassar College. Studied Mathematics She taught science and math for a year in Portland, Maine, and worked for women's suffrage for most of her life. She died in California in 1932.
Ithaca has a sister city in Africa that has a population of 300,000 people. Name the country that they city is in.
Ithaca’s sister city is Eldoret, the fifth largest is all of Kenya with a population of nearly 300,000 people.
Cornell was the first American University that established a medical school aboard. In which country was this medical school established?
Qatar
Cornell is also the Home of many Olympians over its history. Name one
Campbell’s Soup Label changed their colors after a companies executives in the 1800s saw a Cornell University football game where the Cornell colors were composed of a distinctive shade of red as well as white. What was the labels orignal colors
black and orange
Ithaca was once more popular than Hollywood when it came to making American movies, what type of film did Ithaca produce?
what is now Ithaca’s Stewart Park, a film company owned by Theo and leo Wharton, called Wharton Studios, produced quite a number of silent films between the years of 1913 – 1920.
Ithaca routinely brought in film stars who lived in New York City via the overnight train that ran between these two destinations.
Numerous silent films and serials were created in Ithaca. They include names that, although may not be known to the general public, are among the classics of early filmmaking, including The Eagle’s Eye, Beatrice Fairfax, and more.
Because of this, one century ago Ithaca was actually seen as the silent movie capital in the film industry.
In his famous lecture professor Sherman Cochran made an argument for why Hushi is the greatest Cornelian that ever lived. Name one of Hushi's many accomplishment
New cultural movement in China
Vernacular Chinese
nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature.
May fourth movement
The series, The Exploits of Elaine, which was filmed in Ithaca, coining the popular phrase used in film making today. What is the phrase?
The Exploits of Elaine, featured a female protagonist who’d be in some amount of grave danger at the end of the episode, compelling the audience to come back the following week to find out if and how she would escape. One episode ended by showing the protagonist literally hanging off the edge of a cliff, coining the popular phrase.