White

(Andrew Dicks on), American educator, b. Homer, N.Y., 7 Nov. 1832. He studied at Yale, where he graduated in ’53; travelled in Europe, and in ’57 was elected profe or of history and English literature in the University of Michigan. He was elected to the State Senate, and in ’67 became first president of Cornell, a university which he has largely endowed. Among his works we must mention The Warfare of Science (N.Y., ’76) and Studies in General History and in the History of Civilisation , ’85.