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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
FOUNDED 1899
18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N.Y.
H. A. STEVENSON '19, Managing Editor
Assistant Editors:
RUTH E. JENNINGS '44, JEAN C. LAWSON '50
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Committee: Walter K. Nield '27, chairman,
Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey
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Harry V. Wade '26, Indianapolis, Ind.,
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SPRING SUNSHINE through the Campus elms,
just in leaf, brings classes out of doors in
May. Cover picture by Fred W. Klotzman '51
shows a group on the Quadrangle, against
the background of the University Library, with
its magnolia tree in bloom, and the arching
tunnel of Central Avenue.
Here is Your
TIMETABLE
TO AND FROM ITHACA
Light Type, a.iΏ.
East.Std.Time Dark Type, p.m.
Lv.
Phila.
10:05
Lv. New
York
9:55
(x)10:45
Lv. Ithaca Ar
7:10
5:06
Lv.
Ithaca
12:17
10:49
(y)1:12
Lv.
Newark
10:10
11:00
Buffalo Lv
9:45
7:40
Ar.
Phila.
7:20
(z)6:32
8:18
10:30
Ar.
Ithaca
5:00
6:56
. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca
9:40
7:50
10:35
Ar.
Newark
7:19
6:39
7:44
12:11
10:35
1:07
Ar. New
York
7:35
6:55
8:00
(x) New York-Ithaca sleeping car open for
occupancy at New York 10:00 p.m.
(y) Ithaca-New York sleeping car open for
occupancy at 8:30 p.m.
(z) Saturdays, arrive 7:11 a.m.. Sunday &
Holidays arrive 7:40 a.m.
Lehigh Valley Trains use Pennsylvania Station
in New York and Newark, Reading Terminal
in Philadelphia.
Coaches, Parlor Cars, Sleeping Cars, Cafe-
Lounge Car and Dining Car Service.
Lehigh Valley
Railroad
The Route of THE BLACK DIAMOND
May 1, 1951
72
NORTH AMERICAN
BIRD SONGS ON SIX
VINYLITE RECORDS
Recorded by the Albert R* Brand Bird
Song Foundation, Laboratory of
Ornithology, Cornell University
The voices of seventy-two birds oί North America are
here brought to your living room. These recordings, involving
considerable expense and much trial and error,
were made in the birds* natural habitats. The records
will play on all standard 78 r.p.m. machines.
Each feathered performer is identified by an announcer,
as an aid to those who wish to use the records
for recognition of bird songs.
"A remarkably fine album of records ... of particular
interest to all bird enthusiasts and should be in every
school record library. 11 —Nature Magazine
The first record, entitled "Birds of the North woods,"
records the songs of the Olive-backed Thrush, the Veery,
Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, White-throated Sparrow,
Whip-poor-will, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak,
Slate-colored Junco, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
Alder Flycatcher, and the Olive-sided Flycatcher. Sixty
other birds are recorded on the other five records, which
are entitled: "Birds of Northern Gardens and Shade
Trees, 11 "Birds of Southern Woods and Gardens, 11
"Birds of the Fields and Prairies/ 1 "North American
Game Birds," "Birds of Western North America."
Sold in complete albums only
Album of 6 vinylite records,$8.50 postpaid
Comstock Publishing Company
Incorporated
126 Roberts Place, Ithaca, New York
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