In and out of Ithaca : a description of the village, the surrounding scenery and Cornell University . ple lawns used as drill grounds, and for various 44 IN AND OUT OF ITHACA. athletic exercises, although the main athletic groundsare situated in the more northern portion of the men students, natives of America, are, unless ex-cused for physical disability or by reason of their beingobliged to support themselves by their own labor, re-quired to drill three days a week, one hour each day,during the first and third terms of the Freshman andSophomore years. Each student is required to p
In and out of Ithaca : a description of the village, the surrounding scenery and Cornell University . ple lawns used as drill grounds, and for various 44 IN AND OUT OF ITHACA. athletic exercises, although the main athletic groundsare situated in the more northern portion of the men students, natives of America, are, unless ex-cused for physical disability or by reason of their beingobliged to support themselves by their own labor, re-quired to drill three days a week, one hour each day,during the first and third terms of the Freshman andSophomore years. Each student is required to providehimself with the uniform of the corps. Arms and ac-coutrements are furnished by the government. Thedrill is under the charge of an officer in the regulararmy who is specially detailed for this service. Everystudent on entering the University is carefully examinedby the Professor of Physical Culture, and if founddefective in bodily development is required to takespecial exercise suited to his needs in the is open for voluntary exercise to all other studentsfree of charge. ^ 1907. CORNELL UNIVERSITY. SAGE COLLEGE. XV. SAGE COLLEGE. Just beyond the Armory the avenue crosses a prettylittle ravine by a solid causeway, and then divides, onebranch continuing directly north to the main Universitybuildings, passing on its way a row of professors cot-tages, and the other branch turning to the right andmaking a circuit between a wide lawn on the left androws of brilliant flowers and graceful shrubs on theright to the front of Sage College. In architecturalplan and beauty of location, this building is the hand-somest of the University buildings, as it is the mostexpensive. It was completed in 1875, and owes itserection to the munificence of the Hon. Henry , who sought by this means to bring the advantagesof the highest education within the reach of building is in the Italian Gothic style, and is con-structed in the form of a quadrangle. Passing up abroad
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