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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
Professor at Large: The Cornell Years
The Crying of Lot 49
Spiral
Asterios Polyp
Fool on the Hill
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The University in Tran...
 
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James A. Perkins
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Cornell geology throug...
 
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William R. Brice
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The Finger Lakes
 
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John Francis McCarthy
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Ithaca Then and Now: H...
 
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Merrill Hesch
A Century at Cornell: Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Cornell daily sun
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Ithaca and its past: T...
 
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Daniel R. Snodderly
A short history of Tompkins County
Ithaca's Neighborhoods: The Rhine, the Hill, and the Goose Pasture
Cornell and Ithaca in Early Postcards
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
403 books — 300 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cornell University
119 books — 24 voters

Vladimir Nabokov
A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing “classical” music; that two, he was doing it “softly”; and that three, “there were not many readers around in summer.” I was there, a one-man multitude.
Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

Andrew Dickson White
[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion. ...more
Andrew Dickson White

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