Includes shots of the clocktower chimes and footage taken from the top of campus and Ithaca, including the west campus War Memorial (McFadden and Lyon Hall), Cayuga Lake, Sigma Phi and Psi Upsilon fraternity houses, and the Arts quad. Footage of President Edmund Ezra Day. Other shots include Goldwin Smith Hall and the Andrew Dickson White Statue, Rockefeller Hall, Baker Laboratory, vehicles. Footage of the freshman photograph prank where freshman assemble in front of White Hall and have water dumped on them from the upper floors right as the picture is being taken, a prank said to have been originated by Hugh Troy. Freshman are seen wearing beanies. Other buildings featured include Myron Taylor Hall, Roberts Hall, Bailey Hall and Minns gardens, Ag Quad with Caldwell and Warren Hall, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Barton Hall, Willard Straight Hall (including interior shots), Central Avenue with elm trees, McFadden Hall, Lyon Hall, War Memorial, Hydraulic Laboratory, Balch Hall, White Hall, Sage Chapel. Footage of what appears to be the Human Ecology child development program or nursery school with children wearing numbered tags. Many shots of students on campus. Footage of student activities including the Cornell Radio Guild, the predecessor of WVBR, broadcasting, a women’s field hockey game, women’s archery, women’s tennis, women’s chorus and glee club, probably the Sage Chapel Choir. The film closes with shots of campus including the Ezra Cornell statue and Cayuga Lake as sunset.
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