WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON ( 1S32—) . An American educator, diplomat, and author, born at Homer, N. Y. He graduated at Yale in 1853; studied for some time in Paris; was attaché to the United States Legation at Saint Petersburg during part of the Crimean War; studied in the University of Berlin; and in 1857 became pro fessor of history and English literature in the University of :\lichigan. Five years later bad health compelled him to go abroad, and while there he published in London .1 Mord from the Northwest in reply to William [-I. Russell's .1mcricun Diary. In the following year he was elected to the New York Senate, and was later rei;lccted. In 1867 he became president of Cor nell Lniversity (q.v.), which he had helped to found. and occupied that position, together with the professorship of history, until 1885. In this year he resigned. and two years later endowed the new school, which in his honor was called the President Wldte School of History and Politi cal Science, with his historical library, consist ing of about 3o.0o0 voInnws aml 10,000 pa In phio s and manuseripts. The cost of this li brary had been inure than $100,000, and in ad dition he had already given the university about in money. In 1871 he was one of the
commissioners sent to study the of annexing Santo Domingo; in 1876 he was chair man of the jury of public instruction at the Centennial Exposition; in 1878 was honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and re ceived the officer's cross of the Legion of Ilonor; and from 1879 until 1881 was Minister to the German Empire. From 1892 until 1894 he was Minister to Russia ; in 1896 he was appointed a. member of the commission to investigate the Venezuelan-Guiana boundary line; from 1897 until 1902 was Ambassador to Germany, and in 1899 was made chairman of the American dele gation to the Hague Peace Conference. In ad dition to the work mentioned he published Out lines of a Course of Lectures on History (1861); Syllabus of Lectures on Modern History (1876); The Warfare of Science (1876), very greatly en larged as History of the Warfare of Science Against Theology ( S9S ) ; Paper Nancy In flation in France (1876: several times repub lished under various titles) ; and many articles, monographs, and lectures. In 1903 his reminis cence, of diplomatic life were published in the Century .1Iagazinc.