The Passionate Collector: Willard Fiske and his Libraries

Cornell University Rules and Regulations. Ithaca: University Press, 1870.

Having served as a professional journalist, Fiske also supervised Cornell’s publications and provided news of the university to newspapers. He edited the Registers and the first alumni directory. Under his direction, the University Press, the first university press in America, published the early Registers, a student magazine, the Cornell Era, examinations, and miscellaneous university publications, although financial troubles led to its failure in 1880. When Andrew Dickson White advocated a course in journalism, Fiske gave a series of lectures and instruction in the art of printing, phonography (shorthand), and telegraphy, as part of a two-year course, from 1874 to 1878.


		Early Years Cornell University Rules and Regulations. Ithaca: University Press, 1870. Having served as a professional journalist, Fiske also supervised Cornell’s publications and provided news of the university to newspapers. He edited the Registers and the first alumni directory. Under his direction, the University Press, the first university press in America, published the early Registers, a student magazine, the Cornell Era, examinations, and miscellaneous university publications, although financial troubles led to its failure in 1880. When Andrew Dickson White advocated a course in journalism, Fiske gave a series of lectures and instruction in the art of printing, phonography (shorthand), and telegraphy, as part of a two-year course, from 1874 to 1878. Continue the tour

Early Years