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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II
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NEW YORKTHE CENTURY CO.1905
Copyright, 1904, 1905, by
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Published March, 1905
The ``Military Tract'' of New York. A settlement on theheadwaters of the Susquehanna. Arrival of my grandfathers andgrandmothers. Growth of the new settlement. First recollectionsof it. General character of my environment. My father andmother. Cortland Academy. Its twofold effect upon me. Firstschooling. Methods in primary studies. Physical education.Removal to Syracuse. The Syracuse Academy. Joseph Allenand Professor Root; their influence; moral side of the educationthus obtained. General education outside the school. Removal toa ``classical school''; a catastrophe. James W. Hoyt and hisinfluence. My early love for classical studies. Discovery ofScott's novels. ``The Gallery of British Artists.'' Effect ofsundry conventions, public meetings, and lectures. Am sent toGeneva College; treatment of faculty by students. A ``SecondAdventist'' meeting; Howell and Clark; my first meeting withJudge Folger. Philosophy of student dissipation at that place andtime.
My coup d'<e'>tat. Removal to Yale. New energy in study andreading. Influence of Emerson, Carlyle, and Ruskin. Yale in1850. My disappointment at the instruction; character ofpresident and professors; perfunctory methods in lower-classrooms; ``gerund-grinding'' vs. literature; James Hadley—hisabilities and influence, other professors; influence of PresidentWoolsey, Professors Porter, Silliman, and Dana; absence ofliterary instruction; character of that period from a literarypoint of view; influences from fellow-students. Importance ofpolitical questions at that time. Sundry successes in essaywriting. Physical education at Yale; boating. Life abroad aftergraduation; visit to Oxford; studies at the Sorbonne andColl<e!>ge de France; afternoons at the Invalides; tramps throughwestern and central France. Studies at St. Petersburg. Studiesat Berlin. Journey in Italy; meeting with James Russell Lowellat Venice. Frieze, Fishburne, and studies in Rome. Excursionsthrough the south of France. Return to America. Influence ofBuckle, Lecky, and Draper. The atmosphere of Darwin and Spencer.Educational environment at the University of Michigan.
Political division in my family; differences between my fatherand grandfather; election of Andrew Jackson. First recollectionsof American politics, Martin Van Buren. Campaign of 1840;campaign songs and follies. Efforts by the Democrats; GeneralCrary of Michigan; Corwin's speech. The Ogle gold-spoon speech.The Sub-Treasury Question.