“...the College of Arts & Sciences...”
I protest the use of the word “science” adjacent to the word “arts”. It is obvious that there is a vast, unmeasurably large distance between those in the sciences and those in the arts.
Of course, any universal statement such as this is wrong...BUT...it’s becoming more correct than incorrect each day.
At Cornell it's mostly only walking distance. The term is used to give a name to the part of Cornell that is not a state agricultural college.
The term “arts and sciences” came about when the word “arts” conveyed the sense of “technique”, and might be better understood today as technology. The Latin root “art-” clearly would be better understood today as technique. Classical arts all involved considerable technique. The seven liberal arts were:
the Trivium
grammar
rhetoric
logic
the Quadrivium
arithmetic
astronomy
music
geometry
(A person studying classical astronomy, for instance, understood the precession of equinoxes, could calculate the phases of the moon and position of the planets for any date in any year or the date of the vernal equinox in a given year, for instance.) A person was not considered classically educated who had not mastered all seven of the liberal arts. Today a person can obtain a liberals arts degree from an “accredited” university and be a functional illiterate.