It's not certain that's the addressee. With a bit more looking, Cornell lists a Gilbert Lafayette Collins as a second year mechanical engineering student in 1911-12. So it's possible that the linked info is wrong, or there was a second guy with the same name who went to Cornell a few years later. Or the same guy had an "interesting" college career, or was delayed by military service between 1907 and 1911?
Cornell has their directories online, or at least some of them. I didn't find the 1907 one, but I didn't look very hard at all.
Sometimes looking up the addressee of an item leads to some pretty interesting things.
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