Ithaca College - Cayugan Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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ITHACA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC J5 University-is valued at over twenty-five million dollars and its income is over two million dollars. The Uni- versity staif of instruction numbers 507 members. The many cultural advantages of studying in a Uni- versity center with its many broadening and uplifting influences cannot be overestionateol. The city has 'many charitable and public spirited institutions, a new and splendidly equipped hospital, aside from the large Cornell Infirmary, a large Y. M. C. A. building, a Social Service and House League, Children's Home, Old Ladies' Home, Public Library founded by Ezra Cornellg an Associated Char- ities, numerous charitable institutions, and a Civic or- ganization for the purpose of affording play grounds for children and making the streets and parks of the city attractive. There are fifteen churches in Ithaca with a church .property valued at about 31,555,000 Ithaca is provided with an excellent system of water works, gas, electric light plant, electric street railway, eighteen hotels, three daily, five weekly, and two monthly periodicals. The Lehigh Valley, the Del- aware and Lackawanna, the Cayuga Lake, the Elmira, Cortland St Northern run into the city and are con- nected by the electric street railway to within one block of the Conservatory. HISTORY HE Conservatory was organized in 1892 and re- ceived its charter under the laws of the State of New York in 1897. In 1910 the Conservatory was registered with the Board of Regents of the Uni- versity of the State of New York as giving approved instruction in music and elocution. Graduates of the Conservatory are therefore permitted to teach in the schools of New York State without further examina- tion, and students of the Conservatory may be granted

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14 YEAR BOOK OF THE MARGUERITE WILLIAMS, Sight Singing. Graduate of Ithaca Conservatory. Music course at Cor- nell University under Dr. Hollis Dann. Special course at Northwestern University and Smith College. Former supervisor of Music at Stratford, Conn. and Franklin, Pa. Supervisor of Music in the Public Schools, Ithaca, N. Y. THE CITY OF ITHACA ITUATED at the head of one of that group of lakes in Central New York made famous by the pen of Cooper, is the beautiful city of Ithaca. The city is situated in a region of much beauty, having numerous waterfalls and cascades and picturesque gorges. It is a land of cataracts and waterfalls, of towering cliffs, ravines and gorges, a region that is a continual delight and surprise to the traveler, aiord- ing scenery one would not expect to find east of the Rockies. Ithaca is located in the district known as the Fin- ger Lake Region and at the southern end of Cayuga Lake. It is the region where the Cayugas, one of the six tribes of the Iroquois Nation once flourished. The city lies partially on a plain and partially on three hills on the east, south and west, which almost enclose it. The shores of Cayuga Lake Cforty miles longj are lined with summer cottages and popular summer resorts, in- cluding Stewart Park at Ithaca, Glenwood, Taughan- nock Falls fhigher than Niagaraj, Frontenac Beach, Ladogaglgark, Sheldrake, and many others, all combin- ing to make Ithaca an ideal school and home city. Ithaca is essentially a school town, it being the home of Cornell University with an enrollment of over 6,000 students, a High School property costing nearly i5400,000,. Cascadilla Preparatory School, one of the best equipped grammar schools in the country, a Parochial School, besides the Ithaca Conservatorysof Music and Afliliated Schools. The property of Cornell

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16 YEAR BOOK OF THE credit on graduation courses by the High Schools of New York State for instruction received at the Con- servatory. ' Beginning over thirty years ago in a small home on one of Ithaca's choice resident streets, the school later moved into one of the principal business blocks on State Street where it remained for over ten years. Outgrowing these quarters the Conservatory then purchased its present valuable property. Facing on the largest and most beautiful park of the city, the school enjoys an element of seclusion, at the same time being in the immediate proximity of the principal pub- lic buildings of the city. Facing on the same park are The City High School, The Court House, Odd Fellows' Temple, and three of the city churches, While the Post Office and Y. M. C. A. are distant only a half block. The Conservatory has gradually developed its property until now it includes an Administration Building, Studio Building, Auditorium Building, Band School Building, Martin Hall, four Dormitories, two Sorority Houses and Gymnasium. Length of Terms Fall or First Term-16 Weeks Second Term-17 Weeks Third Term-10 Weeeks Short Summer Term-6 Weeks Conservatory Institute-6 Days Departments and Affiliated Schools Academic School General Course: Three and Four Years Pianog Organ, Violin, Violoncellog Voice Culture. Special Courses: Small String Instruments, Theoryg Harmony and Musical Composition, Piano Tuning, Languages, Painting: and Dancing.