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5. Home advantages Chief drawbacks Farm 

 work Love of sheep Hoofrot in sheep 

 Caustic remedies Peddling sheep Clearing 

 swamps Boiling sap Apple culture Far- 

 sighted eyes Memory Eager but patient 



6. Religion Personal morals Counts against 

 tobacco Attitude toward alcohol Cards 

 "A prayer gauge" Religion and hysteria 

 Camp meetings 



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1. Winning a Cornell scholarship Paying one's 

 way "The Grove" and "the Strug" Ros- 

 well Leavitt The "Soiree litteraire" "The 

 young Heroy" A poet-botanist Copeland 



2. "Brothers in Delta U" The Comstocks 

 Branner and the others Anderson and Brayton 



3. College fraternities Studenten-Corps Phi 

 BetaJKappa Sigma Xi Special features 

 The Chapter House Downward tendencies 

 Fraternity standards Wasted energy 



4. The mock program Wholesome discipline 

 A student prank E. L. R. Moses A political 

 sphinx Three women pioneers Lack of 

 social amenities The Mitchell sisters Era 

 poetasters The Minnie-song 



5. A birthday party on April i Music a closed 

 book Favorite poets "Lyrics of Life" 

 The critic relents The "Boston Hymn" 

 Bret Harte Thoreau Andersen's tales 

 Beauties of nature 



6. Prize in Entomology Prize in History 

 Custom abandoned 



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1. Andrew D. White as university president Ezra 

 Cornell The Morrill Act Mr. Cornell's 

 devotion 



2. Pioneer enthusiasm Student employment 



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