Not in Ithaca
Sunday February 13, 2005 Category: Fun Permanent Link
From Cornell College, founded by William Wesley Cornell, a distant cousin of Ezra Cornell, who founded Cornell University a decade later in 1865:
They have a Cornellian, but it’s a yearbook. They have an Olin, but it’s a library. We’re known as the Hilltop, they’re the Hill. We opened in 1853, they opened 15 years later. They have gorges and Cayuga Lake, we have Grant Wood cornfields and Ink Pond. Our founders are distant cousins—their Ezra Cornell, our William Wesley Cornell.
Cornell College students wear T-shirts with the slogan “Isn’t that in Ithaca?” If Cornell University students wore “Isn’t that in Mount Vernon?” T-shirts, no one would get the joke.
One of the most interesting things about the elder Cornell? Their “one-course-at-a-time” academic calendar:
Since 1978, students study a single subject for a 3 1/2-week term. There are nine terms each year with approximately 58 courses offered each term. Only two other colleges offer similar calendars: Colorado College and Tusculum College (Greeneville, Tenn.).
