III. 



THE SUPERSTRUCTURE — ITHACA OF TO-DAY. 



Nobly and beautifully situated, the lake stretching 

 out its silver beauty before her, the hills rising about 

 her to form a terraced amphitheatre, Ithaca is to-day fast 

 realizing all that is meant by the term, a University 

 town. Pictures of Oxford and Cambridge, of the Uni- 

 versity towns of Germany, rise before the mind in 

 comparison with which, however, Ithaca suffers not at 

 all. Youngest of her sisters, it is true, not yet so fully 

 developed in all ways, but quietly and rapidly growing 

 into her place. 



The view from South Hill, coming in on the Delaware, 

 Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the old Ithaca and 

 Owego road, is on the whole the most comprehensive 

 and satisfactory.* On the east and west the lake valley 

 rises to the level of the old plateau in graceful curves, 

 intersected here and there by some one of the numerous 

 ravines. On East Hill the buildings of the Cornell 

 University stand out in bold relief, Cascadilla Place in 

 the foreground, half hidden by foliage, t To the north 

 the placid waters of Cayuga flow out to meet the hori- 

 zon, Crowbar Point, six miles down the lake, seeming 

 to cut it off, and the water then reappearing far in the 



* See Frontispiece. 



t These buildings do not appear in the Frontispiece. See 

 View of the Campus. 



