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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I

  
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
LIST OF PORTRAITS OF THE AUTHOR

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE PART I ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATION
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE CHAPTER I BOYHOOD IN CENTRAL NEW YORK—1832-1850
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CHAPTER II YALE AND EUROPE—1850-1857
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PART II POLITICAL LIFE
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CHAPTER III FROM JACKSON TO FILLMORE—1832-1851
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CHAPTER IV EARLY MANHOOD—1851-1857
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CHAPTER V THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD—1857-1864
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CHAPTER VI SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY—1864-1865
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CHAPTER VII SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY—1865-1867
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CHAPTER VIII ROSCOE CONKLING AND JUDGE FOLGER—1867-1868
  
CHAPTER IX GENERAL GRANT AND SANTO DOMINGO—1868-1871
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CHAPTER X THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN—1872
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CHAPTER XI GRANT, HAYES, AND GARFIELD—1871-1881
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CHAPTER XII ARTHUR, CLEVELAND, AND BLAINE—1881-1884
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CHAPTER XIII HENDRICKS, JOHN SHERMAN, BANCROFT, AND OTHERS—1884-1891
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CHAPTER XIV McKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT—1891-1904
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PART III AS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
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CHAPTER XV LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN—1857-1864
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CHAPTER XVI UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE WEST—1857-1864
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PART IV AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
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CHAPTER XVII EVOLUTION OF "THE CORNELL IDEA''—1850-1865
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CHAPTER XVIII EZRA CORNELL—1864-1874
  
CHAPTER XIX ORGANIZATION OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY—1865-1868
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CHAPTER XX THE FIRST YEARS OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY—1868-1870
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CHAPTER XXI DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS AT CORNELL—1868-1872
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CHAPTER XXII FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY COURSES—1870-1872
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CHAPTER XXIII "COEDUCATION'' AND AN UNSECTARIAN PULPIT—1871-1904
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CHAPTER XXIV ROCKS, STORMS, AND PERIL—1868-1874
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CHAPTER XXV CONCLUDING YEARS—1881-1885
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PART V IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
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CHAPTER XXVI AS ATTACHé AT ST. PETERSBURG—1854-1855
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CHAPTER XXVII AS ATTACHé AND BEARER OF DESPATCHES IN WAR-TIME—1855
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CHAPTER XXVIII AS COMMISSIONER TO SANTO DOMINGO—1871
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CHAPTER XXIX AS COMMISSIONER TO THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1878
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CHAPTER XXX AS MINISTER TO GERMANY—1879-1881
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CHAPTER XXXI MEN OF NOTE IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE—1879-1881
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CHAPTER XXXII MY RECOLLECTIONS OF BISMARCK—1879-1881

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Curious, too, was the following: One morning the mail brought me a large packet filled with little squares of cheap cotton cloth. I was greatly puzzled to know their purpose until, a few days later, there came a letter which, with changes of proper names, ran as follows:

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