Campus tour at Cornell University

コーネル大学のキャンパスツアー。

創始者が住んでた綺麗なお家があったり、リアルな脳のコレクションがあったり、銅像の周りに足跡が付けられてあったり、チャペルのなかにお墓があったり、塔のなかで鐘の演奏があったり・・・アメリカの大学ってば面白いことをするなあ。

Last Thursday, I participated in a campus tour organized by the English for
International Students and Scholars.

There are many historical buildings on the campus of Cornell University.
At first, we visited the A. D. White House, which was the residence of Andrew
Dickson White who was co-founder and first president of the university.
The house was built in 1871.
White left the house to the university for the perpetual use of later presidents.
Presidents still use the building as a private office or retreat.
It is maintained very well.
We could view a very beautiful garden from the house.

After the A. D. White House, we moved to the Uris Hall, which is the building for Sociology, Economics, Psychology and International Study.
Cornell University preserves seventy human brains in glass jars, including 14
brains of prominent people and 12 brains of less known or infamous people.
Several brains are displayed on the floor of Psychology.
I saw the real human brains for the first time!
(No picture of the brains!)

Next, we went to the Sage Chapel.
The chapel is very spacious and beautiful, and the important figures of Cornell
University were buried there.

This is the burial of Ezra Cornell.

There is a large park at the center of the campus, where you can find the two
statues of the university founders, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.
It is said that they stand up, walk to the middle of the road, and shake their
hands at midnight.
However, nobody has never seen that they are shaking their hands.

Finally we went to the McGraw Tower, and enjoyed beautiful sound of the bell.
We also saw a beautiful scene from the top of the tower.