WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832 )

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WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832 ) , American educationist, was born in Homer, New

York

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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
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, on the 7th of November 1832. He graduated at Yale (A.B.) in 1853, studied at the Sorbonne in 1854, and at the University of Berlin in 18551856, meanwhile serving as attache at the United States Legation at St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

in 18541855. He was professor of history and English literature in 18571863, and lecturer on history in 18631867 at the University of Michigan. In 18641867 he was a member of the New

York

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  Gothic
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  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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state Senate, and as chairman of the Committee on Education took an active part in formulating the educational features of the bill under which Cornell University (q.v.) was incorporated (1865). At Mr Cornell's suggestion Mr White drew up a plan of organization for the institution, and in 1867 became its first president, which post he held continuously until 1885, serving thereafter as a member of the board of trustees and of its executive committee. During his administration he greatly strengthened the curriculum of the university, to which he gave his architectural library, and, upon his retirement, his historical and general library of about 2o,000 volumes (including bound collections of pamphlets) and about 3000 unbound pamphlets, which was installed in a

special

SPECIAL

room in the main library building of the university. In recognition of this

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

the departments of history and political science of the university have been named the President White School of History and Political Science. In 187o President Grant appointed Benjamin F. Wade, Mr White and Samuel G. I-Iowe a commission to visit Santo Domingo and report on the advisability of the president's project for annexing it to the United States, and in 1895 he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the commission established to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana. Dr White was United States minister to Germany in 1879-1881, and to Russia in 18921894, and was United States

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Germany in 18971903. In 1899 he was president of the American delegation at the Hague Peace Conference. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan (1867), from Cornell (1886), from Yale (1887), from St Andrews, Scotland (1902), from Johns Hopkins, (1902), and from Dartmouth (1906); L.H.D. from Columbia (1887) and D.C.L. from Oxford (1902). He was also made an officer of the Legion of Honour, was awarded the royal gold medal of Prussia for arts and sciences in 1902, was president of the American Historical Association, of which he was a founder, in 1884, and was actively identified with various other learned bodies.
His publications include The Greater States of Continental Europe (1874) ; A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2 vols., 1896), his most important

work

WORK

, his Autobiography (2 vols., New York, 1905) and Seven Great Statesmen (1910).

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