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See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
WHITE, See also:ANDREW See also:DICKSON (1832– ) , See also:American educationist, was See also:born in See also:Homer, New See also:York, on the 7th of See also:November 1832. He graduated at Yale (A.B.) in 1853, studied at the See also:Sorbonne in 1854, and at the University of See also:Berlin in 1855–1856, meanwhile serving as attache at the See also:United States See also:Legation at St See also:Petersburg in 1854–1855. He was See also:professor of See also:history and See also:English literature in 1857–1863, and lecturer on history in 1863–1867 at the University of See also:Michigan. In 1864–1867 he was a member of the New York See also:state See also:Senate, and as chairman of the See also:Committee on See also:Education took an active See also:part in formulating the educational features of the See also:bill under which Cornell University (q.v.) was incorporated (1865). At Mr Cornell's See also:suggestion Mr White See also:drew up a See also:plan of organization for the institution, and in 1867 became its first See also:president, which See also:post he held continuously until 1885, serving thereafter as a member of the See also:board of trustees and of its executive committee. During his See also:administration he greatly strengthened the curriculum of the university, to which he gave his architectural library, and, upon his retirement, his See also:historical and See also:general library of about 2o,000 volumes (including See also:bound collections of See also:pamphlets) and about 3000 unbound pamphlets, which was installed in a See also:special See also:room in the See also:main library See also:building of the university. In recognition of this See also:gift the departments of history and See also:political See also:science of the university have been named the President White School of History and Political Science. In 187o President See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant appointed See also:Benjamin F. See also:Wade, Mr White and See also:Samuel G. I-Iowe a See also:commission to visit Santo Domingo and See also:report on the advisability of the president's project for annexing it to the United States, and in 1895 he was appointed by President See also:Cleveland a member of the commission established to determine the boundary between See also:Venezuela and See also:British See also:Guiana. Dr White was United States See also:minister to See also:Germany in 1879-1881, and to See also:Russia in 1892–1894, and was United States See also:ambassador to Germany in 1897–1903. In 1899 he was president of the American delegation at the See also:Hague See also:Peace See also:Conference. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan (1867), from Cornell (1886), from Yale (1887), from St See also:Andrews, See also:Scotland (1902), from Johns See also:Hopkins, (1902), and from See also:Dartmouth (1906); L.H.D. from See also:Columbia (1887) and D.C.L. from See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (1902). He was also made an officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, was awarded the royal See also:gold See also:medal of See also: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 See also:Continental See also:Europe (1874) ; A History of the Warfare of Science with See also:Theology in Christendom (2 vols., 1896), his most important See also:work, his Autobiography (2 vols., New York, 1905) and Seven See also:Great Statesmen (1910).
End of Article: WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
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