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In part two of our continuing series, we meet a celebrated scientific couple, a distinguished Chinese scholar, and much more <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lindsay Lennon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many times have you uttered the name of a Cornell building\u2014whether you lived, ate, took classes, or studied there\u2014without knowing anything about the person it honors? <\/em> Here\u2019s a look at some of those memorable lives. (And be sure to check out <\/em>part one<\/em><\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Barton 1891<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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There are two plaques in the main stairwell of Barton Hall that commemorate Cornellians who served in World War I. One is for the building\u2019s namesake: Colonel Frank Arthur Barton 1891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a student, Barton was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and became a U.S. Army officer upon graduation\u2014one of the first two Cornellians to receive a commission\u2014and served in the Spanish-American War, among other conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barton came back to the Hill in 1904 to serve as one of the first commandants of the student cadet corps that is now Cornell\u2019s ROTC program\u2014laying the foundation for the military science department still housed in his namesake hall. He later returned to Army service, then came back to campus again after his military retirement. He died in 1921, aged just 52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the University\u2019s first buildings designed in collegiate Gothic style, Barton Hall\u2014originally called the New York State Armory and Drill Hall before being renamed in the 1940s\u2014was built during World War I for military training, on the site of a predecessor to Fuertes Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flora Rose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rose grew up in a well-to-do Denver family in the late 1800s, but eschewed high society life in favor of a career in home economics\u2014then a still-developing field. After graduating from Kansas State Agricultural College in 1905, she wrote to Cornell and Stanford, urging them to create departments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNeither of them had home economics,\u201d she later reflected, \u201cand in my reforming mood I decided that they should.\u201d Two years later, Cornell was convinced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose taught on the Hill for 33 years, helping to grow the fledgling department into the College of Home Economics in 1925 (it would be renamed Human Ecology<\/a> in 1969). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also assisted with the research and development of low-cost, vitamin-enriched cereals, which led to her work organizing food relief for malnourished Belgian schoolchildren\u2014efforts that earned her the Insignia of the Order of the Crown from the nation\u2019s King Albert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flora Rose House is part of the West Campus House System, a living\/learning community led by resident faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anna Botsford Comstock 1885 & John Henry Comstock 1874<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When they met, Anna was a student and Henry an entomology instructor on the Hill. They married three years later, and soon after, Henry was appointed chief entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Anna, too, was hired by the USDA as a writer and researcher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the late 1890s, Anna, a scientific illustrator and researcher, was teaching nature studies as Cornell\u2019s first female faculty member. Together the Comstocks started their own science press, publishing books on insects and wildlife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna\u2014whom the League of Women Voters named one of the 12 greatest women in the U.S. in 1923\u2014chronicled the couple\u2019s lives in her posthumously published autobiography, The Comstocks of Cornell<\/em>. (In 2020, Cornell University Press released a new edition<\/a> based on her original manuscript, which had been heavily edited after her death.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comstock Hall on central campus, which is named for the couple, houses the Department of Entomology; it\u2019s not to be confused with Anna Comstock Hall on North Campus, home to the Latino Living Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hu Shih 1914<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The renowned scholar and diplomat is widely considered one of the University\u2019s most notable Chinese alumni. Hu was a leader of the anti-imperialist May Fourth movements in China during the early 20th century, helping to advance a political philosophy of freedom, individual rights, and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his many accomplishments is spearheading the effort to replace the classic Chinese literary language with a more accessible \u201cliving\u201d tongue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While still a sophomore, Hu headed an effort to donate more than 300 Chinese books to the University Library, the beginning of what would become one of the nation\u2019s most robust collections of East Asian literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on to earn a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia, and was a Chinese ambassador to the U.S. from the late \u201930s through the early \u201940s. He served as chancellor of Peking University from 1946\u201348, and was later named president of the Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy) in Taipei\u2014a role he held until passing away in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hu Shih Hall opened on North Campus in fall 2022. Hu is also honored through a named professorship in Chinese history, an annual distinguished lecture in Chinese and East Asian studies at the Einaudi Center, and a recently established seating area<\/a> on the shore of Beebe Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacob Gould Schurman<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Before arriving as a philosophy professor in 1886, the future Cornell president\u2014born on Canada\u2019s Prince Edward Island\u2014studied moral philosophy and mental science in Nova Scotia, Edinburgh, London, and Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His presidential term (1892\u20131920) was a time of extensive growth for the University. Campus grew from 250 acres to 1,465; enrollment increased from around 1,500 to more than 5,000; and mainstay institutions like the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell Cooperative Extension, the College of Agriculture, and the Medical College were established. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schurman also advocated for diversity, writing in 1911: \u201cAll university doors must remain open to all students irrespective of color or creed or social standing or pecuniary condition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While president, Schurman served as chairman of the First Philippine Commission\u2014a federally appointed group assigned to investigate conditions in the Philippines during the country\u2019s fight for independence\u2014and was a U.S. minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schurman Hall\u2014a three-story, window-filled building in CVM\u2014underwent a massive renovation in 2018, which added (among other features) an atrium with seating areas bathed in natural light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John McGraw<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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McGraw was a self-made millionaire lumber mogul with a deep reverence for classical education, though he himself never received one. Instead, he committed to realizing this dream for his daughter, Jennie, by sending her on a grand tour of Europe starting in 1859.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the University\u2019s founding trustees, McGraw gave $120,000 for the construction of the hall that bears his name, which opened in 1872 as one of the three original \u201cstone row\u201d buildings on the west side of the Arts Quad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four-story edifice was the first home of the University Library; McGraw and his daughter shared an affinity for rich, diverse university libraries\u2014further informed by her European travels\u2014and were convinced that an institution could not produce fine scholars without one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1873\u201391, the building\u2019s small tower was home to the Cornell Chimes<\/a>, until they moved to the iconic structure (later named McGraw Tower) connected to Uris Library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2023, Arts and Sciences announced a planned $110 million renovation<\/a> of McGraw Hall\u2014including preservation work on the fa\u00e7ade and major interior, structural, and systems updates throughout the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prudence Risley<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWe may well remember what we are going to have for dinner ten weeks from today,\u201d wrote a student in the Cornell Women\u2019s Review <\/em>in 1915\u201316, \u201cbut which of us can tell who Prudence Risley was?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born in Connecticut in 1778, married Elisha Sage Jr. at age 23, and had eight children before dying in 1865 (a year after her husband, according to their shared gravestone). In 1911, her daughter-in-law donated $300,000 for the construction of a women\u2019s dormitory on the Hill, to be named in Risley\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1970, the building became the University\u2019s first, and still largest, \u201cprogram house\u201d: a co-ed residence themed to the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the castle-like structure on North Campus remains a Cornell landmark, scant information exists on Risley\u2019s life, though her portrait does hang in the building\u2019s Tudor-style dining hall. (The grand room was modeled after the same Oxford University dining hall that inspired the one at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter<\/em> films.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many women of her time, Risley\u2019s name most often crops up in reference to a man: in this case, her wealthy financier son, Russell. But she does have the distinction of having a plant\u2014Sinningia \u2018Prudence Risley\u2019<\/em>\u2014named after her; in fact, an Internet search for her mainly turns up images of vibrant pinkish blooms shaped like slender bells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in death, she\u2019s the main character of one of the Hill\u2019s spookiest legends: the ghost of \u201cAuntie Pru\u201d has long been reported to slink around Risley Hall, flickering lights and blowing cold drafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Video by Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University. Photo illustrations by Caitlin Cook \/ Cornell University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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