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Willard Straight Hall is the student union building on the central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.the hall opened in November 1925 after 20 months of construction.
Willard Straight Hall was one of the first student unions in North America—a building devoted solely to student interests, not academic interests. One of the first college unions in the country, the Straight supports the events and functions of the many units within Student and Campus Life, including the Office of the Dean of Students, Campus Activities, and Sorority and Fraternity Life.
圖中的壁畫是近800年之前馬可波羅和忽必烈相見話談東西方的交流時刻。馬可波羅遊記被稱為"世界一大奇書"和"人類史上西方人感知東方的第一部著作"，其內容對《加泰羅尼亞地圖集》等中世紀地圖繪製產生影響，為哥倫布等歐洲航海家探索東方提供參考，向整個歐洲打開了神秘的東方之門。理應感謝的兩位先人。
