Valentines 2026

1) During weddings in Sage Chapel, the ghost of what legendary campus figure allegedly encourages hesitant brides to walk down the aisle?

2) What famed Cornellian published a book outlining a “system for liberated love and marriage”?

3) Cornell Chimes benefactor Jennie McGraw married Willard Fiske, an ardent suitor who heavily wooed her (either for love or for her fortune). What campus position did he hold?

4) Which East Hill building was funded by the widow of its namesake, who spearheaded the project as a tribute to her late beloved?

5) What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Prof. Alison Lurie follows the lives and loves of faculty from Corinth University, her fictionalized Cornell?

6) Prof. Morris Bishop 1913, PhD 1926—author of the first volume of “A History of Cornell”—wooed his future wife after she came to campus for what high-profile project?

7) Which late alum enjoyed a decades-long marriage to a fellow Cornellian?

8) A Big Red men's ice hockey game figures into what romantic film?

9) What building namesakes—married more than a half-century—were such a love match that when the husband died just months after his wife, his passing was attributed to a broken heart?

10) Rocker Huey Lewis ’72 had what love-themed hit song in the Eighties?