| Beskrivelse | Consists of early planning correspondence suggesting needs and uses for a building at Cornell to be built as a memorial to Willard Straight. Among the papers are brief studies of the administration of the student unions at the universities of Michigan and Toronto (including mention of student attitudes toward granting membership to women students); a list of purposes that might be served by a proposed Cornell student union; a letter from Prof Charles H Hull; undated notes in Dorothy Elmhirst's handwriting mentioning needs for a Cornell student union building; a photograph of an architectural rendering of Willard Straight Hall; notes mentioning the names of professors at Cornell; a letter, 8 Mar 1921, from George Lincoln Burr discussing the Cosmopolitan Club at Cornell; letter, 5 Jan 1921, to Dorothy from Marie M Maloney of the 'Delineator' mentioning the Cornell 'sex war'; letters from Prof Olaf M Brauner; typescript of 'Tentative Suggestions for a Cornell Union' c1921; a list of 'People with whom DWS has conferred regarding Union'; Robert C Washburn's notes about Cornell faculty; 'Dr Betten's Notes on Union'; letters from Helen M Bateman, Albany and Gilbert E Jackson, University of Toronto; notes of an outline for a campus theatre at Cornell; Richard H Edwards; Wilder D Bancroft; Harold Flack; notes made during a conference with Mr Edwards; suggestions from Nixon W Elmer; Mr and Mrs Treman; Margaret Cuthbert; Arthur Evans Wood; Allen B Pond, architect; University of California, and Cornell University Morse Stephens memorial plans (1922); a letter from architect Williams Adams Delano; and a letter from Samuel G Trexler. |