Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White
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leading universities. I could not think then, and cannot think
now, of any endowment likely to be more speedily and happily fruitful in good to the whole country. In the spring of 1904 I returned to my old house on the grounds of Cornell University, and there, with my family, old associates, and new friends about me, have devoted myself to various matters long delayed, and especially to writing sundry articles in the "Atlantic Monthly," the "Century Magazine," and various other periodicals, and to the discharge of my duties as a Trustee of Cornell and as a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution and a Trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. It is, of course, the last of my life, but I count myself happy in living to see so much of good accomplished and so much promise of good in every worthy field of human effort throughout our country and indeed throughout the world. Following are the letters referred to in this chapter. FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK, August 5, 1902. MY DEAR AMBASSADOR WHITE: It is with real regret that I accept your resignation, for I speak what is merely a self-evident truth when I say that we shall have to look with some apprehension to what your successor does, whoever that successor may be, lest he fall short of the |
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