Once Upon a Time, Canines Cavorted on the Hill—Even in Class Doggone it! Recalling a furrier era, when free-roaming, four-legged friends were a ubiquitous part of campus life
Let’s Hit the Slope! Celebrating Classes’ End Is a Cornellian Tradition From Spring Day and Springfest to the current Slope Day fun, students have marked the occasion with Big Red revelry
From Corks to Corey to the Cosmos: The Hill’s Most ‘Legendary’ Courses We offer a (not-at-all-comprehensive) roundup of quintessentially Cornellian classes—and invite you to weigh in!
All Aboard! ‘Observation Trains’ Offered Mobile Views of Crew Races Once upon a time, thousands cheered on the Big Red from packed rail cars chugging along Cayuga Lake
And the Greatest Fictional Cornellian in TV and Movie History Is … ? After Twi-hards and ‘Succession’ fans take over the March Madness poll by Corey Earle ’07, the question may still not be settled
Prankster’s Legendary Exploits Enthralled Cornellians for Decades Hugh Troy 1926 played epic practical jokes on campus and elsewhere, painted murals—and went on to join the CIA
For Newman Lab’s 75th Birthday, Some Fascinating Facts You don’t have to be a nuclear scientist to appreciate these tidbits about the Hill’s first facility devoted to accelerator physics
Vintage Scrapbooks Offer Fascinating Windows into Student Life Housed in the University Archives, the more than 1,000 volumes preserve ephemera, photos, newspaper clippings, and much more
Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! Joyful Jamboree Is a Big Red Rite of Spring Fueled by first-year architecture students, the March celebration has been roaring on the Hill for 120+ years
The Cornell Club Is a Big Red Oasis in NYC The stately—but not stuffy—Midtown facility has been Cornellians’ ‘home away from home’ for decades