Cornell

Ivy in Ithaca

Cornell most commonly refers to Cornell University, a prestigious Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1865: She got her PhD from Cornell.

The word also serves as a surname and occasionally a given name.

The Cornell note-taking system, developed there, divides pages into sections for organized study.

university

Ithaca

Ionian island, epic destination

hockey · veterinary · engineering · agriculture · endowed · statutory · clocktower · chimes · prelims

people

Soundgarden

Seattle grunge rock band

Kathie Lee Gifford · Bill Nye · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Christopher Reeve

IvyLeague

Harvard

Prestigious Cambridge university

Brown · Dartmouth · Penn · NCAA · athletics · conference · prestige · selectivity · admissions

ornithology

birding

Watching wild fowl

bird sounds

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institutional prestige/selectivity

Cornellcommunity college

Two-year public institution

for-profit college · diploma mill · vocational school · trade school · regional university

geographic setting

CornellColumbia

America personified, or its namesakes

USC · UCLA · Boston University · Georgetown · University of Miami

ivy league internal contrasts

CornellHarvard

Prestigious Cambridge university

Yale · Princeton · Columbia · Penn · Brown

Phrases
Family

Cornelius, Cornell University

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